Abstract

CORREA-ARISTIZABAL, Sandra  and  TURBAY, Sandra. Uses and beliefs related to Mac Donald and Bristol almanacs in Old Providence and Santa Catalina islands, Colombia. Etnográfica [online]. 2019, vol.23, n.1, pp.49-68. ISSN 0873-6561.  https://doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.6285.

This article characterizes the uses of Bristol and Mac Donald almanacs between Raizal people of Providencia and Santa Catalina islands. Ethnographic research in these Caribbean islands shows how these publications blur the borders between scientific and local knowledge and how they articulate natural and cultural dimensions of the lived world. The beliefs associated with these calendars and their use in everyday life reveal political and historical conflictive aspects of the islanders’ relations with mainland Colombia. These links between uses and beliefs have been overlooked in the many ethnographies made in the area.

Keywords : almanacs; calendars; local knowledge; ethnoclimatology.

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