Las rutas de un palenque borrado del mapa

The book is the product of a collaborative process that weaves the author’s personal history with dialogue among the author and his interlocutors: seño Yobadis, founder of the Ethnocultural-Ethnopedagogical Museum of San José de Uré, a pioneer in establishing the Chair of Afro-Colombian Studies in the Upper San Jorge region, and the daughter of the last rower, elder Manuel Salvador Londoño. The result is a decolonial and experimental ethnography that escapes the official archive and arrives at the co-construction of alternative archives—echoing the gesture of maroon communities—to create a “counter-history” that fractures the erasure, opacity, and obliteration of San José de Uré in the theoretical and social imaginaries of Afro-Colombian communities. The text promotes its own methodological incursion as a staging of altars that displaces the dominant and hegemonic vision of social research techniques usually used to approach the lives of racialized others.