Proxémica, Kinésica y Antropología. Apuntes sobre simulación etnográfica, cuerpo y espacio en el marco del conflicto armado colombiano

Abstract

This work presents some ethnographic reflections from a research project focused on the insertion process when joining a guerrilla organization in Colombia as a ritual process. This study took place at a School of Combatants of the National Liberation Army - ELN. As a result, the authors earned their B.A. degree in Anthropology with merit at the National University of Colombia in 2001. Twelve years later, this article is presented reflecting upon two non-verbal communication forms of expression: on one side, the body kinesics under the armed conflict requirements of the armed conflict in a rural area; and on the other, the proxemics built by a community in order to transform and functionally own fragments of the jungle under the particular demands of the guerrillas´ war. Therefore, we aim at understanding how ethnographic interaction in political armed violence operates as a sensitive experience, where gestures and simulations (meta-messages) flowing in a jungle of symbols can possibly, and quiet remarkably, make the difference between life and death.

Keywords

• Simulation (Thesaurus); armed conflict ethnography
• proxemics
• kinesics