Disputes over tagua and mines: natural resources and territorial property in the Colombian Pacific, 1870-1930
Claudia Leal, Professor Universidad de los Andes, Colombian Journal of Anthropology vol.44, 2008. [email protected]
Summary
In the Colombian Pacific there were no strong disputes over land in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth, as happened in other parts of Colombia, but there were territorial conflicts. These were focused on access to natural resources considered valuable: tagua palm seeds, gold and platinum.
By studying these conflicts, this article helps to understand why the majority of the region maintained its character as a wasteland of the nation at a time when land titling accelerated in other parts of the country.
Thus, it contributes to understanding the particular history of the Colombian Pacific, which generated the conditions that favored the collective titling of black communities as stipulated in the 1991 Political Constitution.
Content:
Introduction, The occupation of the Pacific by black groups, Disputes over the control of the Taguals, Mining speculation, History, environment and politics.
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