Violencia fotografiada y fotografías violentas. Acciones agresivas y coercitivas en las fotografías etnográficas de pueblos originarios fueguinos y patagónicos
In this paper we analyze two corpuses of photographs that document forms of violence experienced by the Indigenous Peoples of Tierra del Fuego and Pampa-Patagonia in the context of the advancing presence of Western agents (voyagers, militaries, missionaries, ethnographers) in their territories, betw...
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Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
2014
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| Sumario: | In this paper we analyze two corpuses of photographs that document forms of violence experienced by the Indigenous Peoples of Tierra del Fuego and Pampa-Patagonia in the context of the advancing presence of Western agents (voyagers, militaries, missionaries, ethnographers) in their territories, between 1880 and 1950. We have identified a sample of 112 photos which show these situations (out of a corpus of 1865 photographs of Tierra del Fuego-Patagonia); these are analyzed using two complementary concepts:• photographed violence: photos which document violent situations; • violent photographs: photos in which the very act of taking a picture has been coercive, implying a praxis of body control over the photographed subject, against his/her will.Results show that there are scarce images of photographed violence, which document aggressions of Westerners against Indigenous Peoples, but not vice versa. Regarding violent photographs, the Pampa-Patagonian Indigenous Peoples have been represented as violent “savages” or as dominated “civilized” peoples, while the Fueguian Indigenous Peoples have been represented as the “transcultured otherness” (as religious propaganda), or as the “exotic otherness” (as subjects of scientific study). These trends contrast with those observed in the global corpus of photographs, which record numerous non-violent situations in which the cultural variability generated by the Indigenous' agency can be appreciated. |
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