Journal article
Image and instrumentality in a Xavante politics of existential recognition: The public outreach work of Eténhiritipa Pimentel Barbosa
American ethnologist, Vol.32(4), pp.622-641
11/01/2005
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2005.32.4.622
Abstract
This analysis of one Xavante group's innovative projects to represent Xavante culture to nonindigenous audiences reveals multiple and complex perceptions of instrumentalities as well as political goats. Unlike many contemporary Native (Amazonian and other) groups that use aspects of their culture to attract support and achieve concrete political goats, local objectives are relatively abstract and future oriented, having to do with public "image" and "existential recognition." Analysis illustrates that local ideas about indigenous cultural displays aimed primarily at nonindigenous audiences, including "identity politics" and apparently straightforward cultural commodification, may not neatly correspond with anthropologists' or other outsiders' expectations. Overly narrow interpretive foci may cause anthropologists to overtook the potential for multiple and complex objectives and a diversity of locally significant dimensions. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Image and instrumentality in a Xavante politics of existential recognition: The public outreach work of Eténhiritipa Pimentel Barbosa
- Creators
- Laura R Graham
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- American ethnologist, Vol.32(4), pp.622-641
- DOI
- 10.1525/ae.2005.32.4.622
- ISSN
- 0094-0496
- eISSN
- 1548-1425
- Publisher
- Wiley Subscription Services, Inc; Arlington
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/01/2005
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology; International Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9983997094002771
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