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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.