Ethnographic Returns - Memory Processes and Archive Film

This Element explores and discusses specifically the return of digital 'ethnographic' images to indigenous and non indigenous people that share a common recent history of coexistence and dispute over the same territory that is to be understood in the light of the consolidation of a Nation State with a settler colonial logic.

List of contents

1. Introduction: 'Revisiting Ethnographic Sites, Decentering Authorized Interpretations?'; 2. 'Indians' and 'Gauchos' Captured by the Lens of Swedish Explorers in the Argentine Chaco; 3. Readings of the Past and the Affective Reception of an Archive Film; 4. Final Reflections: Reframing Ethnographic Heritage.

Summary

This Element explores and discusses specifically the return of digital 'ethnographic' images to indigenous and non indigenous people that share a common recent history of coexistence and dispute over the same territory that is to be understood in the light of the consolidation of a Nation State with a settler colonial logic.

Product details

• Authors: Anne Gustavsson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781108823425
• ISBN: 978-1-108-82342-5
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Critical Heritage Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; ART / Museum Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies