Hybrid Bodyscapes
Hybrid Bodyscapes
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混合体景
DOI：
10.1086/604708
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Fernando Santos
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作者：
Fernando Santos
本文通过后殖民时期秘鲁亚马逊流域的亚内莎人在服装、装饰和身体治疗方面所经历的变化的视觉历史来考察文化变迁和混合性。这种转变往往表现为传统与现代之间的波动，要么被解释为“文化适应”的实例，要么被解释为“发明的传统”和“后现代身份政治”的表达。这些理论方法主要关注外部因素，没有充分关注本土观念和实践在促进文化变革中的作用。确实考虑到这些感知的方法，例如以“通过”和“模仿”概念为中心的方法，不适用于这种特殊情况。采用亚内莎的观点作为出发点，我认为，看似文化融合过程的表达是长期本土对他者——尤其是白人和混血他人——以及本土信念的结果，即自我只有通过融入他者才有可能。这种融合总是在身体的转变、混合的身体景观中找到表达，这些身体景观随着时间的推移，根据自我与他人之间关系的变化而变化。
This paper examines cultural change and hybridity through a visual history of the alterations in dress, ornamentation, and body treatment experienced by the Yanesha of Peruvian Amazonia in postcolonial times. Such transformations often appear to be fluctuations between tradition and modernity explained alternatively as instances of “acculturation” or as expressions of “invented traditions” and “postmodern identity politics.” By focusing mainly on external factors, these theoretical approaches pay insufficient attention to the role of native perceptions and practices in promoting cultural change. Approaches that do take into consideration these perceptions, such as those centered on the notions of “passing” and “mimesis,” do not apply to this particular case. Adopting a Yanesha perspective as a departure point, I argue that what appear to be expressions of acculturative processes are the result of a long‐standing indigenous openness to the Other—particularly the white and mestizo Others—and the native conviction that the Self is possible only through the incorporation of the Other. Such incorporation always finds expression in bodily transformations, hybrid bodyscapes that change throughout time according to the shifting relationships between Self and Other.