Open AccessDefiant images: The Kaiapo appropriation of video
Author(s) -
Terence Turner
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
revista de antropologia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1678-9857
pISSN - 0034-7701
DOI - 10.11606/2179-0892.ra.1993.111390
Subject(s) - appropriation , mediation , representation (politics) , ethnography , ethnic group , cultural appropriation , sociology , process (computing) , identity (music) , national identity , aesthetics , media studies , anthropology , political science , epistemology , social science , politics , art , law , computer science , philosophy , operating system
This paper shows the Kaiapo videomaking as a process of cultural mediation, especially concerning the mediation between Kaiapo and Brazilian societies. The author focuses on the difference between the ethnographic films and the videos made by Indians themselves. The article also discusses the uses of the Kaiapo notion of representation in the videomaking process. It debates with some of the post-modernist antluopologists denying the idea that "representation " is a western project. The author discusses the ideas of cultural hybridization, the Kaiapo objectifying their own culture as ethnic identity in a strategic process of relating to the national society