:This article examines the different meanings that rights to land and culture hold in San Basilio de Palenque, an Afro-Colombian community whose “cultural space” was declared by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to be intangible cultural heritage of humanity in 2005. I investigate how the language of rights—both communal and individual—operates simultaneously at various registers and is strategically put to work in distinct political spheres. Drawing from ethnographic field research conducted between 2009 and 2013, I argue that while communal rights are invoked to garner recognition from state and transnational organizations like UNESCO, individual rights, conceived as exclusive prerogatives, serve to mark hierarchical distinctions between community members. I examine the paradoxical coexistence of two contradictory claims: one of cultural cohesion and another of social hierarchy. I conclude by questioning how a more nuanced examination of rights discourses in Palenque might contribute to understanding the multiple meanings of rights, not simply across time or space but also in relation to their perceived strategic purpose.

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非洲裔哥伦比亚人权利的遗产、土地、劳动力和竞争性主张

：本文探讨了土地和文化权利在圣巴西利奥德帕伦克的不同含义，这是一个非洲裔哥伦比亚社区，其“文化空间”被联合国教育、科学及文化组织 (UNESCO) 宣布为非物质文化遗产2005 年的人类学。我研究了权利的语言——无论是公共的还是个人的——如何在不同的登记册上同时运作，并战略性地在不同的政治领域发挥作用。借鉴 2009 年至 2013 年间进行的民族志领域研究，我认为，虽然公共权利被用来获得国家和联合国教科文组织等跨国组织的认可，但被视为专有特权的个人权利有助于标记社区成员之间的等级差异。我研究了两种相互矛盾的主张的矛盾共存：一种是文化凝聚力，另一种是社会等级。最后，我质疑对帕伦克的权利话语进行更细致入微的研究如何有助于理解权利的多重含义，不仅仅是跨越时间或空间，而且还与它们感知的战略目的有关。