Retornando sua coleção de material audiovisual: os dilemas de uma antropóloga
This paper focuses on the author’s endeavor to return audiovisual material (essentially analogue photographs) from her personal archives to the Xikrin (Mebengokré) of Pará, Brazil, with whom she has been working since 1992. To comply with young adults’ request to see what they looked like as childre...
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| Language: | English |
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Société des américanistes
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Journal de la Société des Américanistes |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/18556 |
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| Summary: | This paper focuses on the author’s endeavor to return audiovisual material (essentially analogue photographs) from her personal archives to the Xikrin (Mebengokré) of Pará, Brazil, with whom she has been working since 1992. To comply with young adults’ request to see what they looked like as children and how life was then, the documents were scanned and copies exhibited in the villages. The text offers a reflection on this experience, insisting on the discoveries it allowed but also on the discomfort it sometimes triggered, for both the author and her Xikrin friends. Analysis is based on Amerindian concepts and practices regarding the learning process—based on listening and watching—, and leads to reflections on indigenous conceptions of knowledge. Attention is paid to the stories that the circulation of recordings of past events brought about, concerning the evolution of social structure, interpersonal relations, connection with the dead, and cultural change in general. |
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| ISSN: | 0037-9174 1957-7842 |