La fotografía como herramienta antropológica en la dignificación de los roles, prácticas y espacios de la frontera colombo-venezolana.

Abstract

The present degree work dignifies the inhabitant of the Colombo-Venezuelan border area, through photography as an ethnographic tool; making visible the roles, practices and spaces of the border citizen with a qualitative-ethnographic perspective, with the instrument of information collection: visual analysis file for an interpretation of the photographic records, of the local newspaper La Opinión during the period 2014-2017, of participant observation of the environment. Thus making possible the identification through categories that allow obtaining as results the border dynamics susceptible to be dignified in images that exalt the human nature of the subject as a rational being; thus achieving that in the first instance the author of said snapshot is recognized beyond the illegal and undervaluable environment in which he lives.