Actores en la vía: el Chaplin del sur de Cali

Observación sobre una actuación en el semáforo de la calle Quinta, entre los centros comerciales Unicentro y Holguines en Santiago de Cali

Abstract

This article is the product of a monographic study that depicts the results of an ethnographic examination conducted in Santiago de Cali’s fifth street South during the course of a few months, which purpose was knowing, interacting and
analyzing a distinguishing phenomenon occurring in the public
space: the South Chaplin’s performance. The power of the representation as well as the comprehensible acting of the
character allowed the researchers to recognize the dynamics that Richard Senett and Erving Goffman have theorized around observation and urban micro-sociology.