Newspaper Nina S. Friedman

Débora Arango Peréz

Looking for a hero in Colombia

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"A group of men can build cities. A Group of Women Builds Societies" A Man's Personal Thought

Nina S. Friedemann

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images of black existence in Colombia

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Her research made visible the contribution of Afro-descendants in the development of Colombia. San Basilio, San Andrés and Quibdó are just a few stops along the way

She toured Afro-Colombian towns in the Pacific and the Caribbean, to document and develop her ethnographic research.

Nina S. de Friedemann

She is the daughter of Liborio Sánchez and Ana Inés Avella de Sánchez. She was born in Bogotá on November 2, 1930 and died in Bogotá on October 29, 1998.

Her research interest was focused on the field of African American studies, which by then had lagged behind Colombian anthropology.

She later studied at Hunter College and the University of California.

In 1964 she graduated with a degree from the Colombian Institute of Anthropology.

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In 2000, the Luis Ángel Arango Library acquired the archive of Nina S.

She was linked to the "Human Expedition" project, developed by her Institute of Genetics.

At the beginning of the nineties, she founded the magazine black América of the Javeriana University.

In 1970 he developed an itinerary of ethnographic research on Afro-Colombian peoples.

Achievements

Nina S, was nominated by Colombia for the Gabriela Mistral Inter-American Award of the Organization of American States.She helped found the Afro-Venezuelan studies program.She was honored with the Fulbright-Hays, as a visiting professor in the United States.

He wrote and published 13 books of his research, among which are heirs of the jaguar and the anaconda, Carnival in Barranquilla, warriors and ranchers in Palenque, dozens of articles and essays.

Warriors and ranchers in Palenque

Carnival in Barranquilla

heirs of the jaguar and the anaconda

Arguments

Her works are quite extensive and rich, books, articles and documentaries that give an account of her anthropological and ethnographic research.

She coined the term Footprints of Africanía to name the African legacy present in the cultural manifestations of these communities.

Below we will mention some of her arguments that will lead her to win this important award

This outstanding anthropologist, she must be the new Colombian superhero, because she left an important legacy for the Afro-descendants of our country.

https://enciclopedia.banrepcultural.org/index.php/Nina_S._de_Friedemannhttps://revistas.icanh.gov.co/index.php/rca/article/view/265

References

Mariana Arango LondoñoAna María Giraldo Henao

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