Fishing Village on South Side
Description
Group of small houses in a coastal area. Most are huts, with natural fiber roofs and walls, built on stilts. Two of the houses have board walls. There is a house, of which only one corner can be seen, that has a zinc roof. In front of one of the houses there is a man, and in front of another, a woman is sitting. Some girls can be seen near the edge of a body of water. The land where the houses are located looks arid. In the background, between two of the huts, you can see the beach.| Origin Name |
163--fishing village on south side
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| Relation |
Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín > Colección Menonitas > John and Bonita Driver
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| Geographical Coverage |
Municipio desconocido | Unknown Municipality
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| Date |
[1945-1966]
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| Descripción decolonial |
Small huts with natural roofs and stilts echo colonial-era living and ongoing social inequities in the modern present. The same buildings recall ancient Indigenous building practices, encapsulated by the iconic bohío, which relied on natural material and woodworking skills. Signs of decolonial resistance thus emerge as the community appears to maintain cultural practices rooted in Indigenous and later African diasporic traditions, forging connections between the shared African heritage of the children in the foreground and the Taíno ancestors of the island unseen but not forgotten.
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| Rights |
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| Editor |
Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
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| Resource Format |
JPEG
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| Resource Type |
Image
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