Palenque can mean any number of things in Spanish, from a fence post (or tethering post) to a cockfight. My first exposure to the word was when I was studying slavery in the New World, in which context it means a society of marooned (escaped) slaves.
In
Costa Rica, however,
palenque is almost exclusively reserved as a generic term for indigenous reservations.
In Costa Rica:
Palenque = reserva indÃgena
It cannot have effect in reality, that is what I think.
ReplyDeleteI am confused about that....I agree with you that palenque is almost exclusively reserved as a generic term for indigenous reservations.
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