Dugout canoe and the immaterial knowledge of its last carpenters: fieldwork in El Horno (Magdalena, Colombia)
Abstract
As a mute witness of the indigenous naval construction, the so-called one-piece canoes or dugout canoes and the knowledge of their carpenters, are in a moment close to disappearance and historical oblivion. The present ethnographic research with a nautical perspective has focused on the search, location and registration of the last canoes of this type, in use or abandoned, as material evidence of the partial continuity of its construction tradition, in parallel to location and registration of the immaterial craft knowledge of the last carpenters from El Horno (Magdalena).
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