@article{PAR00007441, title = {{C}ollective memory and ethnic identities in the {C}olombian {P}acific}, author = {{H}offmann, {O}dile}, editor = {}, language = {{ENG}}, abstract = {{I}n the {P}acific region of {C}olombia the new conditions for acceding to land and to territory are arousing a strong drive to redefine identities. {B}lacks who had never perceived or "categorized" themselves as such in their own milieux, unless as "free agents" or in reference to names of places or rivers in areas where they had lived, without land rights, for more than a century "became" so in order to ensure themselves a degree of land security, in application of a law ({N}° 70 of 1993). {T}his legislation provides for the assignment of collective land titles to "black communities inhabiting the {P}acific coastal region". {F}or similar reasons, some {W}hites associate themselves (become assimilated?) with the {B}lacks and the mixed-race people, often close to the {S}outh-{A}merican {I}ndians, sometimes claim to be "blacks", causing incomprehension and annoyance among their neighbours and officials alike, who are white.}, keywords = {afrocolombians ; land titling ; identities ; {COLOMBIE}}, booktitle = {}, journal = {{J}ournal of {L}atin {A}merican {A}nthropology}, volume = {7}, numero = {2}, pages = {118--139}, year = {2002}, URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/{PAR}00007441}, }