Les concours de beauté amérindiens. Nouvelles formes de spectacularisation de l’indianité

Beauty contests, increasingly popular among Amerindian groups, have today become the central element of festivals in which indigenous peoples are the main actors (such as The Day of the Indian in Brazil, patronage festivals in Guatemala, and native community anniversaries in Peru, etc.). The purpose...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:aae026c17c3d406989c73a80eaf56d532021-12-02T10:31:40ZLes concours de beauté amérindiens. Nouvelles formes de spectacularisation de l’indianité1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.70124https://doaj.org/article/aae026c17c3d406989c73a80eaf56d532017-02-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/70124https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252Beauty contests, increasingly popular among Amerindian groups, have today become the central element of festivals in which indigenous peoples are the main actors (such as The Day of the Indian in Brazil, patronage festivals in Guatemala, and native community anniversaries in Peru, etc.). The purpose of this presentation is twofold. Firstly, it explores the different representations of autochthony that are displayed during these events, and the connections between competition and processes of cultural objectification and revalorization. Secondly, drawing on contrastive cases it addresses the different relational configurations in which Amerindian groups engage with national societies. I propose that beauty contests are not a mere emanation of these relations but, on the contrary, constitute a space in which these relations are invented, constructed and negotiated.Magda Helena DziubinskaCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américainsarticlebeauty contestperformanceamerindiansethnicitycultureAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2017)
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topic beauty contest
performance
amerindians
ethnicity
culture
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
spellingShingle beauty contest
performance
amerindians
ethnicity
culture
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
Magda Helena Dziubinska
Les concours de beauté amérindiens. Nouvelles formes de spectacularisation de l’indianité
description Beauty contests, increasingly popular among Amerindian groups, have today become the central element of festivals in which indigenous peoples are the main actors (such as The Day of the Indian in Brazil, patronage festivals in Guatemala, and native community anniversaries in Peru, etc.). The purpose of this presentation is twofold. Firstly, it explores the different representations of autochthony that are displayed during these events, and the connections between competition and processes of cultural objectification and revalorization. Secondly, drawing on contrastive cases it addresses the different relational configurations in which Amerindian groups engage with national societies. I propose that beauty contests are not a mere emanation of these relations but, on the contrary, constitute a space in which these relations are invented, constructed and negotiated.
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title Les concours de beauté amérindiens. Nouvelles formes de spectacularisation de l’indianité
title_short Les concours de beauté amérindiens. Nouvelles formes de spectacularisation de l’indianité
title_full Les concours de beauté amérindiens. Nouvelles formes de spectacularisation de l’indianité
title_fullStr Les concours de beauté amérindiens. Nouvelles formes de spectacularisation de l’indianité
title_full_unstemmed Les concours de beauté amérindiens. Nouvelles formes de spectacularisation de l’indianité
title_sort les concours de beauté amérindiens. nouvelles formes de spectacularisation de l’indianité
publisher Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
publishDate 2017
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