Dajou Cottrell
BA Anthropology
BLUE Residency
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Fall
2020
Sharing and recanting movements of resistance within Afro-Colombian culture
BLUE Residency
Fall
2020

Background

Dajou graduated from McGill in 2020 with a B.A in Anthropology. Dajou's project was inspired from her passion for preserving cultural traditions and the history of the African Diaspora. Her research paper titled "Semiotics of Resistance, Land Rights, Displacement and the Cultural Cryptography of Hair", examines, how cultural codes displayed on the body can serve as a form of resistance. Using an intersectional lens of (resistance theory, land issues, cartography, and cultural identity) Dajou is attempting to recant and share culturally fused movements of resistance within Afro-Colombian culture.

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