Body paint, feathers, and vcrs: aesthetics and authenticity in Amazonian activism
Body paint, feathers, and vcrs: aesthetics and authenticity in Amazonian activism
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人体彩绘、羽毛和录像机：亚马逊行动主义的美学和真实性
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1997
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Beth A. Conklin
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作者：
Beth A. Conklin
在这篇文章中，我试图激发对异国身体形象在为西方观众定义文化真实性时的中心地位的批判性反思，并提出关于在本土身份政治中复制这些概念的政治含义的问题。聚焦于亚马逊印第安人在巴西的激进主义，我考察了20世纪80年代环保主义的兴起和新通信技术的传播如何改变了亚马逊人的种族间政治和土著活动家的自我表达。与西方原始主义、异国情调和真实性概念相关的土著形象被证明是战略上有效的政治工具，但使用这种象征性的概念来追求土著的自决目标存在矛盾和责任。
In this article I seek to motivate critical reflection on the centrality of exotic body images in defining cultural authenticity for Western audiences and to raise questions about the political implications of replicating these constructs in indigenous identity politics. Focusing on Amazonian Indian activism in Brazil, I examine how the rise of environmentalism and the spread of new communications technologies in the 1980s transformed Amazonian interethnic politics and the self-representations of native activists. Indigenous images constructed in relation to Western concepts of primitivism, exoticism, and authenticity proved to be strategically effective political tools, but there are contradictions and liabilities in using such symbolic constructs to pursue indigenous goals of self-determination.