Reconstructing home. Craft making among Wounaan
migrants.

This presentation will explore craft making practices of displaced
artisans from the Wounaan indigenous community in Colombia.
It will look at their basket making with traditional materials as a
practice that does not only allow them to make a living but, most
importantly, it is the migration of traditional fibers and inks from
their ‘original’ home in Chocó to the urban areas, like Bogotá,
that allows them to reconnect with their ‘original’ home. By
actively engaging with traditional materials and techniques,
Wounaan artisans bring home to the present. Furthermore, this
presentation will analyze the central role that migrating/diasporic
traditional materials play in the Wounnan process of adaptation
and the reconfiguration of their social networks, their cultural
identity and their individual craft practice.

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