TY - JOUR
T1 - El platanal o la nación. Representaciones sociales y prácticas en torno al plátano en la Colombia del siglo XIX
AU - Escobar, Natalia Robledo
AU - Escobar, Laura Gutiérrez
AU - de la Hoz, Nelsa
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/1/29
Y1 - 2021/1/29
N2 - Based on theoretical approaches to social representations, on the analysis of texts by elite and foreign travelers, and on production and consumption practices, we ask how plantain (Musa paradisiaca) was represented between 1780 and 1900, in the hot lands by the low and mid Magdalena river. We argue that plantain was a marker of the border between “Us” (white, urban, of the elite) and the “Others” (racially diverse, rural, illiterate). Represented as a tropical “non-crop” and accomplice of riverside inhabitants' idleness, especially zambos', plantain appeared as atavistic, an obstacle to civilization, and a form of resistance.
AB - Based on theoretical approaches to social representations, on the analysis of texts by elite and foreign travelers, and on production and consumption practices, we ask how plantain (Musa paradisiaca) was represented between 1780 and 1900, in the hot lands by the low and mid Magdalena river. We argue that plantain was a marker of the border between “Us” (white, urban, of the elite) and the “Others” (racially diverse, rural, illiterate). Represented as a tropical “non-crop” and accomplice of riverside inhabitants' idleness, especially zambos', plantain appeared as atavistic, an obstacle to civilization, and a form of resistance.
KW - Civilization
KW - Elites
KW - Plantain
KW - Practices
KW - Race
KW - Social representations
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85102085480&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.17533/UDEA.TRAHS.N17A01
DO - 10.17533/UDEA.TRAHS.N17A01
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85102085480
SN - 2322-9381
SP - 6
EP - 29
JO - Trashumante
JF - Trashumante
IS - 17
ER -