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Cultural change and environmental awareness: a case study of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia
Mountain research and development • 2 (3) • Published In 1982 • Pages: 289-298
By: Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is a discussion of Kogi adaptation to living and farming on the slopes and foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains in northern Colombia. The Kogi are descendents of refugees from a coastal chiefdom that was conquered by the Spaniards in 1600. In order to take advantage of the region's varying soils and climate, families live a nomadic existence travelling to as many as five different homes and fields that are situated at different altitudes and in different valleys. They grow a different mixture of crops at each location and harvest their crops on year-round basis. Priests play an important role in maintaining the carrying capacity of the environment by closely scrutinizing the moral conduct of the community through confessional. Appropriate moral behavior includes sexual abstinence, raising of small families, and keeping a subsistence ethic. The priests also designate open land as taboo, and only lift the taboo in times of impending food or nutritional shortage.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Population policy
- Cultural goals
- Tillage
- Land use
- Settlement patterns
- Purification and atonement
- Priesthood
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kogi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northwestern South America
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1996
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia
- NotesAdditional notes
- G. Reichel-Dolmatoff
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-297)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 82641140
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kagaba Indians