Abstract
Colombia has a wide linguistic variety, however, even with sixty-four different indigenous languages and two different Creoles, the country recognizes Spanish as the only official language. These communities have faced both discrimination and violence in their territories, and even when their heritage stays alive with political recognition and folklore, the museological representation has proven to be less than ideal. In this paper, we analyze different museums that have represented ethnic communities, and from a linguistic and museological point of view, we provide some suggestions that can contribute to the communities’ social reivindication.
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2018 Special Focus - Inclusion as Shared Vision: Museums and Sharing Heritage
KEYWORDS
Language Representation Discrimination
Digital Media
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