String map showing spiritual connections among landscape features of the Wiwa territory Photo by Celia del Pilar Paez Canro |
Projects
This multidimensional string map shows how sacred parts of the landscape of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in Colombia, are connected through time and space, meaning that damage at one time in one area disrupts the past, present and future of the whole territory. It illustrates the repercussions of political violence and constitutes a lobby for autonomous control of indigenous territories. This project devised by the Wiwa Golkusha Tayrona in collaboration with the centro de memoria historica in Colombia.
Geographical representations in anthropology museums reinforce European perspectives of landscape and history. We have chosen images for our website that illustrate the multiple ways that time and space are represented by Latin American communities. Time can be shown as non-linear and multilayered, while land can be depicted as a dynamic space that includes culturally specific visual codes and cosmology.
SDCELAR works together with research partners and community collaborators in Latin America and the Caribbean. Our projects promote transdisciplinary approaches and plurivocal perspectives to interpreting and engaging with collections, ranging from heritage initiatives, artistic residencies, and scientific analysis to collaborative documentation, archival digitisation and 3D modelling.
These pages have been collaboratively conceived in order to share the Centre’s past and ongoing projects.
Publications related to women’s and maternal health with Wixárika communities by the author of this exhibition
Gamlin, Jennie B. (2013)
Shame as a barrier to health seeking among indigenous Huichol migrant labourers: An interpretive approach of the “violence continuum” and “authoritative knowledge”
Social Science and Medicine 97 75-81
Gamlin, Jennie B. (2023)
Wixárika Practices of Medical Syncretism: An Ontological Proposal for Health in the Anthropocene
Medical Anthropology Theory 10 (2) 1-26
Gamlin, Jennie B. (2020)
“You see, we women, we can’t talk, we can’t have an opinion…”. The coloniality of gender and childbirth practices in Indigenous Wixárika families
Social Science and Medicine 252, 112912
Jennie Gamlin and David Osrin (2020)
Preventable infant deaths, lone births and lack of registration in Mexican indigenous communities: health care services and the afterlife of colonialism
Ethnicity and Health 25 (7)
Jennie Gamlin and Seth Holmes (2018)
Preventable perinatal deaths in indigenous Wixárika communities: an ethnographic study of pregnancy, childbirth and structural violence BMC
Pregnancy and Childbirth 18 (Article number 243) 2018
Gamlin, Jennie B. and Sarah J Hawkes (2015)
Pregnancy and birth in an Indigenous Huichol community: from structural violence to structural policy responses
Culture, health and sexuality 17 (1)