Entre galos e matadouros: violência, vida social e família em uma comunidade camponesa do Sumapaz

Abstract

This article describes blood revenge between people of the same social strata in a peasant community in the Colombian Andes. Even though this community is located within an area of guerrilla warfare against the state, the relevance of its internal quarrels can not be overlooked by the observer. Serious hostility between families provokes acts of revenge that frequently lead to the annihilation of the male members of these groups. Focussing on one such conflict, the existence of a culture of violence is discussed, in order to illustrate the need to take into account the internal antagonism that coexists with the phenomena of rural resistance or rebellion that dominate research and discussion on violence among the peasants.

Violence; Revenge; Colombia; Peasants