Embera and Afro communication between forest, river and sea in the Gulf of Tribugá, municipality of Nuquí, Chocó, Colombia

Abstract

This study sought to identify and characterize the different communication strategies used by ethnic communities of Nuquí, Chocó, Colombia, who according to their conditions of life, have developed themselves as a mechanism for dialogue and conservation of their cultural heritage, but at the once they have been permeated by new technologies. The methodology used for gathering information was ethnography with investee observation, conversations, informal dialogues and systematization confronted with secondary information. The results are a description and analysis of the trance it goes across the Embera and Afro-cell communication, television and traditional media experience some underlying deficiencies through satellite signals and appropriation of technological means. Communicating for afros and Embera settled in the area of Nuquí is an exercise that links the community with forest, river and sea. A bamba Carra and a piece of wood generated the number of strokes that communicated the need for help, help or simply to another moment of departure from whom the community to another place; communication flows along the banks of the beach or the river; through mountains. In short, objects from the sea or forest, coupled with the champagne that slides through the channels have traditionally been the channels through which messages flow that individuals or communities need to communicate.