The Aripaeno's landscape:: Local control within global reality

The Aripaeno are maroon descendants living in the Lower Caura region of Bolivar state, Venezuela. A product of an earlier process of globalization that gave rise to the Atlantic slate trade, present-day Aripaeno continue to resist any outside influence, intervention, or Penetration that could spur sociocultural relations of inequality and (in)difference. Although they are consciously aware of the sociocultural disparities inherent in the modern world capita list System, this does not imply that they are necessarily against the globalizing tendencies of modernity. Rather, their desire is to have direct participation and control over the resources that they, consider important for their cultural production, representation, and reproduction. Through the utilization of the concept of "landscape" as an integrated and yet polysemic cultural repertoire, the aim of this article is to demonstrate that the Aripaeno's commitment to their traditional way of life still incorporates their appreciation of modernity and globalization.