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Imagery production and circulation in the Xinguano Indigenous Territory

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Author(s):
Luiza de Paula Souza Serber
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Press: Campinas, SP.
Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Examining board members:
Antonio Roberto Guerreiro Júnior; Joana Cabral de Oliveira; André Guimarães Brazil
Advisor: Antonio Roberto Guerreiro Júnior
Abstract

Throughout the last three decades, we have witnessed the appropriation of audiovisual technologies by various indigenous peoples around the globe, who have employed them as a strategy of political and cultural resistance. Today in Brazil, we can see a lively transformation in the way indigenous people relate to audiovisual language which is, in this research, observed among different peoples of the Xinguano Indigenous Territory (TIX). The ideas developed here are anchored in the ethnographic analysis of two distinct empirical fields which, despite their intercross, seem to configure different regimes of imagery production and circulation that operate in the regions villages. The first one is based on the observation of an audiovisual training workshop offered by the NGO Instituto Catitu, notable for its focus on training indigenous women (in the workshop analyzed, Ikpeng and Kawaiweté women). The second is based on the examination of the Quarup, an emblematic Upper Xinguano funerary ritual. Through the observation of these settings, it is suggested that today we can perceive in the TIX an intricate media landscape that is composed both by "institutionalized" and "diffuse" forms of audiovisual production. In other words, Xinguano audiovisual production, previously dependent on the resources and the work of organizations external to the communities, now "overflows": it has been finding its own modes of training and production, assuming its own language and aesthetic form, and also creating its own means of circulation and reception (AU)

FAPESP's process: 15/21031-7 - Imagery production and circulation regimes in the Xingu indigenous territory
Grantee:Luiza de Paula Souza Serber
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master