ANTHROPOLOGY OF SILENCES IN THE IMMINENCE OF ARMED CONFLICT

The armed conflict in Colombia has been the most significant exponent of violence and it has also been the clearest conductor of fear, silencing populations and turning it into a mediator of realities. When fear is used as a tool to silence, it profoundly affects representations of the people, their ways of life, their symbolic systems and their oral traditions, revealing continuities and transformations, in which; fear and narrative forms appear as a sensorial expression, a response and local knowledge. If we investigate the different expressions of fear and representations of silences more deeply, we can discover aspects of culture that describe human groups and their means of adaptation.