Territorialization of Death in San Basilio de Palenque

ISBN-13: 9786203830569 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str.

Ritzy Katherine Medina Cuentas

Opis

...As the song plays over and over again, Rey walks out into the courtyard, body swaying, a white cloth covering his face, crying and shouting "Ay mi ma "e, ay mi ma "e". The aunts try to stop him, but he refuses. The song keeps playing. Finally he reaches the courtyard where he cries; the aunts try to sit him down, but he won't let them. It is two o'clock in the afternoon and the time for the burial is approaching. The children increase the level of crying, the wailing gets louder and louder, Rey bangs on the walls of the courtyard, the neighbors approach, they hold him in their arms, two friends take him to the street and sit him in the house across the street. He is received by an old woman and she lays him down on the floor...

O autorze

Medina Cuentas, Ritzy Katherine Ritzy Katherine Medina Cuentas is an anthropologist from Santiago de Tolú, a town in the Colombian Caribbean. She has a Master's degree in Education and has written for the newspaper El Pilón, from Valledupar and the magazine Bajo Tinta, from the same city. Her career has been related to social research and university teaching of anthropology.