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Colombian Conversations: The Strength of the Earth [and Comments and Replies]

Anthropology, inpractice, is a "long conversation." Our collaborative research, between "natives" of two different countries and backgrounds, was carried out in the uplands of Colombia. Part of the work focused on the rural people's practices and voices about the land. This "conversation," we think, provides a glimpse of past European practices and is connected to earlier texts written by economists and others. We show that the contemporary conversation is closely linked to a pre-neoclassical, pre-Marxian, pre-Lockean conception of the land. Similar voices in the past, we propose, influenced the production of past texts as well as the present folk practices just as the texts themselves have influenced current life in Colombia and ourselves. Conversational communities are unbounded, stretching from voices "on the ground" to voices "in the air" to the discussions of collaborating ethnographers who try to illuminate the implications of such thick conversations. We question the postmodemist proposition that cultures are texts and the associated view which emphasizes the central place of writing in anthropology. The practice of anthropology is the practice of conversation in the field and elsewhere: text production is but one part and one voice.