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Amerindian Hidalgos: Impression Management Among the Guajiro of Colombia and Venezuela |
| Section: CULTURE / PEOPLES |
| Author: Benson Saler |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1989 |
| Size: 3,802 Words, 24,157 Characters |
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One of my most vivid memories of the Guajiro Indians is of three horsemen with whom I never spoke. Late one morning, as I drove along the Caribbean coast of the Guajira Peninsula, I spotted them in the distance. They were slumped on their plodding horses, brutalized by the burning sun. But as I drew closer they heard my motor and straightened themselves. Then, from somewhere, each produced a short wooden stick, an animal prod. Guajiro men of substance sometimes carry them as symbols of elevated status, rather like the walking sticks of Victorian and Edwardian gentlemen in a distant, colder country. Each horseman, now sitting erect on a seemingly energized mount, rested one end of his prod on his right thigh and slanted the stick up and out at about a 45 degrees angle. It was an impressive ...
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...ro. Those efforts helped create--and now maintain--a distinctive form of life in a heterogeneous ethnic environment. The Guajiro, moreover, have been assisted in their efforts, if only tacitly, by Hispanics. For the latter came to see, and admire, in the Guajiro certain qualities that resonate with poetic images from the Old World, images that celebrate pride in one's kinsmen and one's honor.
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