%0 Journal Article 
%T Mecanismos de inserción sociopolítica en Curiepe, Estado Miranda, Venezuela
%J c;No.16
%D 2015
%@ 2011-0324
%U http://www.icesi.edu.co/revistas/index.php/revista_cs/article/view/2013
%X Considering the socio-political changes initiated in Venezuela since 1999, we ask if all
Afro-Venezuelans make use of the legal, social and political spaces derived from the constitution,
in order to be included in the national project as a culturally distinct sector of society.
The achievements of the Afro-Venezuelan social movement are favorable, but cannot be
generalized as a massive response of the Afro-Venezuelan cultural awareness. However, we
can analyze local contexts to account for historical processes of sociopolitical inclusion of
these communities. This paper analyzes from an anthropological interpretative perspective
the case of the population of Curiepe, Miranda State in Venezuela. We conclude that their
current socio-political actions derive from cultural mechanisms created since the eighteenth
century, based on their project of freedom and on their identity as a “free black” settlement.
The validity of these mechanisms is structurally expressed in their sense of “cultural autonomy,”
especially in the religious sphere.
%K Producción intelectual registrada - Universidad Icesi
%K Identidad política
%K Venezuela
%K Negros
%K Afrovenezolanos;
%K Identity Politics
%~ GOEDOC, SUB GOETTINGEN