The Currency of Cultural Exchange: re-thinking models of indigenous development

这一研究项目提出了探索、阐述和促进当代巴西土著人民和非土著社会之间文化交流的新方法，以此作为更公平的经济和社会发展的手段。这项建议是为了响应上新谷Kuikuro土著协会(AIKAX)的倡议而制定的，该倡议旨在为巴西上Xingu地区Kuikuro Ipatse村的非土著艺术家和学者创建一个定期居住方案。一个由巴西和英国合作伙伴(学术界和非学术界)组成的网络将支持一项试点计划，使AIKAX能够建立良好的做法，衡量影响，并展示文化交流如何以不破坏文化和语言的方式刺激经济发展和福利，这些文化和语言在历史上一直维持着一种与它们所保存的土地密切相关的生活方式。通过建立由新谷部落之一发起的跨文化交流的受控实验，这项研究试图在巴西土著文化和更广泛的文化产业之间建立新的联系，认识到这是发展议程的一个重要特征。合作将把关于艺术和文化活动的经济和福利影响的专门知识带到一项本土倡议中，以便扩大对如何将文化互动、创造性创新和合作文化生产视为对社区和个人的福祉至关重要的概念和衡量的理解。奎库罗人在保护、分享、解释、表现、使用和交流自己的文化方面的主人公是本研究的基线。AIKAX成立于2002年，目的是保护和展示Kuikuro文化遗产，并在决定制作和展示尊重个人权利并维持其村庄作为有凝聚力的社区的道德表现方面发挥了积极作用。这项研究将致力于促进土著社会发展专业实践，这些社会参与倡议，将跨文化交流作为一种有社会目的的发展手段。AIKAX提案试图使土著艺术家和思想家成为新的知识交流过程中的主角，充分认识到他们的经验和专业知识在巴西自己寻找更有效的方式了解文化如何为社会福利做出贡献的过程中具有重要价值。通过创建一种模式，使库库罗人能够成为交流过程中的代理人，而不是外部影响的被动消费者或文化入侵的受害者，这项研究试图发现和促进新的学习，以增强能力，并定义土著人民可以成为巴西(和其他地区)创意产业的主角的条件，以抵制“生产系统的掠夺性”。这项研究将承认历史文化形式的合法性，但也允许土著艺术家和工匠在当代交流中发展自主做法，保持和发展优先保护人类和自然环境的文化生产，以维持个人的生活和社区的福利。

This research project proposes new ways to explore, articulate and stimulate cultural exchange between contemporary Brazilian indigenous peoples and non-indigenous societies as a means of more equitable economic and social development. The proposal has been devised in response to an initiative by the Kuikuro Indigenous Association of the Upper Xingu (AIKAX) to create a regular programme of residencies for non-indigenous artists and scholars within the Kuikuro village of Ipatse in the Upper Xingu region of Brazil. A network of Brazilian and British partners (academic and non-academic) will support a pilot programme enabling AIKAX to establish good practices, measure impact and demonstrate the ways in which culture exchange can stimulate economic development and welfare in ways that are not destructive to the culture and languages that have historically sustained a way of life intensely related to the land which they preserve and by which they are preserved. By establishing a controlled experiment in cross-cultural exchange that is initiated by one of the tribes of the Xingu, the research seeks to forge new connections between indigenous culture and the broader cultural industries in Brazil in the acknowledgement that this is an important feature of a development agenda. The collaboration will bring expertise on the economic and welfare impacts of arts and cultural activity to an indigenous initiative in order to extend understanding of how cultural interaction, creative innovation and collaborative cultural production can be conceived and measured as essential to the wellbeing of communities and individuals. The protagonism of the Kuikuro in the conservation, sharing, interpretation, representation, use and exchange of their own culture is the baseline for this research. AIKAX was formed in 2002 to preserve and present the Kuikuro cultural heritage and has been an active agent in determining the production and display of ethical representations which respect the rights of individuals as well as sustain their villages as cohesive communities. The research will seek to contribute to the development of professional practice by indigenous societies that engage in initiatives that propose cross-cultural exchange as a means of socially purposeful development. The AIKAX proposal seeks to make indigenous artists and thinkers protagonists in a new process of knowledge-exchange, fully aware that their experience and expertise have significant value within Brazil's own search for more effective ways to understand how culture contributes to social welfare. By creating a model that enables the Kuikuro to be agents in the process of exchange rather than passive consumers of external influences or victims of cultural invasions, the research seeks to discover and promote new learning that will strengthen capacity and define the terms on which indigenous peoples can become protagonists in the creative industries in Brazil (and beyond) in ways that resist the 'predatory nature of the productive system'. The research will recognize the legitimacy of historic cultural forms but also allow indigenous artists and artisans to develop autonomous practices in contemporary exchanges, maintaining and developing cultural production that prioritizes the preservation of the human and natural environment that maintains the lives of individuals and the welfare of the community.