1st Edition
A Graphic Anthropology of Street Art in Medellin’s Comuna 13 The Jaguar and the Hummingbird
By Claudio Riga
Copyright 2027
208 Pages
20 Color & 49 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
This book examines how street art transformed Medellín's Comuna 13 from one of the city's most dangerous neighborhoods into a thriving tourist destination, exploring both local community dynamics and global forces of urban renewal and touristification.
Shaped by a long history of violence, political conflict, and forced displacement, Comuna 13 has undergone a striking transformation from the... Read more
0. Introduction Path I: Walking Toward Comuna 13 1. Comuna 13 2. Street Art Images 3. Walking and Photographing Ethnography Path II: Walking Through Comuna 13 4. What Do Images Say? 5. What Do Images Want? 6. What Do Images Do? 7. What Don’t Images Say, Want, or Do? Path III: Conclusion. Walking out of Comuna 13
Biography
Claudio Riga is a researcher in the urban anthropology of art and completed his PhD in Social Anthropology at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia.
