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I have a M.A. in Public Anthropology from American University in Washington D.C., following a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology at Kennesaw State University in Atlanta, Georgia. My research interests are identity, indigeneity, material culture, cultural sustainability and political economy. Most particularly the focus is on the ‘Reconocimiento’ concept of the Afro-Mexican community of Costa Chica in the realization of their full social existence in the state of Mexico.

My research discusses intersecting art and equity as methods for expressing abstract, impressionism, surrealism and social realism.

My latest research, Agua Escondido: Sense of Space, Climate Change, and Migration in Costa Chica, Mexico”.

Please see ‘Projects’ and ‘Articles’ section for further information on some of my other other past and current research and projects.

Art, Healing Arts, Creative Movement, Plant-life and Literature are my personal influences.

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My activism - cultural, political, spiritual - is rooted in my love of nature and my delight in human beings.... For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet..... without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.

In this regard, I have a story to tell.
— Alice Walker, "Anything We Love Can Be Saved"

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©2025, Barbara Columbus

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Turiya & Ramakrishna - Alice Coltrane

©2025, Barbara Columbus

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