Abstract

PRIETO FONTECHA, Fabián Camilo  and  SOLANO SALINAS, Rigoberto. Manuel Quintín Lame between 1910 and 1939: Reflections from re-existence. LiminaR [online]. 2022, vol.20, n.1, e875.  Epub Sep 12, 2022. ISSN 2007-8900.  https://doi.org/10.29043/liminar.v20i1.875.

Manuel Quintín Lame Chantre (1883-1967) was an indigenous intellectual who is still highly influential in the Colombian indigenous movement. His leadership and opinions have become visionary aspirations for the people who today struggle to resist the direct, structural, and symbolic centuries of violence, beginning with the invasion of Abya Yala, continuing through the colonial period, and enduring in the current nation-state of Colombia. In this article, we reflect on Quintín Lame’s thinking-feeling-telling-acting between 1910 and 1939, through an exercise that we call “historiography of the absences” from a re-existence perspective that is understood in the communication-education field as a process of building meaning and significances in order to re-invent life.

Keywords : Manuel Quintín Lame Chantre (1883-1967); social leaders; indigenous leaders.