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“¡LOS GRINGOS VIENEN!” (THE GRINGOS ARE COMING!): FEMALE RESPECTABILITY AND THE POLITICS OF CONGO TOURIST PRESENTATIONS IN PORTOBELO, PANAMA
Author(s) -
Craft Renée Alexander
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
transforming anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.325
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 1548-7466
pISSN - 1051-0559
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-7466.2008.00003.x
Subject(s) - latin americans , politics , panama , humanities , negotiation , tourism , ethnology , sociology , political science , art , social science , law , ecology , biology
“¡Los gringos vienen!” focuses on the ways a particular Afro‐Latin community in Portobelo, Panama, who call themselves and their performance tradition “Congo,” negotiate encounters with global tourists. In so doing, it links notions of “respectability” with double‐consciousness to explore differences between female Congo “local” and “like‐local” performances. “Like‐local” names Congo “packaged” presentations intended primarily for global tourists who enter Portobelo by bus or boat for one‐ to two‐hour mid‐day excursions. “¡Los gringos vienen!” attends to a doubling of the gaze whereby the Congos watch tourists watching them and annotate their cultural practices accordingly.