INVESTIGADORES
MATO Daniel Alejandro
artículos
Título:
The Transnational Making of Representations of Gender, Ethnicity and Culture: Indigenous Peoples Organizations at the Smithsonian Institution's Festival.
Autor/es:
DANIEL MATO
Revista:
Cultural Studies
Editorial:
Routledge Publishers
Referencias:
Lugar: Londres; Año: 1998 vol. 12 p. 193 - 209
ISSN:
0950-2386
Resumen:
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Ongoing
globalization processes challenge indigenous peoples lives in various
ways. These processes seem to be to a significant extent fuelled by global
agents whose practices are in one way or another informed by the systems of
representations, values and beliefs of so-called developed Western societies,
those of the US, Canada and Western Europe. Not only are voracious national and
transnational economic and political forces avidly seeking to gain control over
these peoples territories, resources and knowledge, but also a variety of
self-considered alternative organizations from the developed
world (some of which actually advance agendas that in certain ways may be
regarded as alternatives to those of mainstream agencies) are actively exposing
these peoples to their systems of beliefs and representations, for example,
conservationist organizations, indigenous peoples advocacy organizations, etc.
This article discusses the participation of various indigenous peoples
political and economic organizations from Latin America in the
Culture and Development Program of the 1994 edition of
the Smithsonians Festival of American Folklife. This festival was an occasion
to observe how certain world class events are both the result of and the
occasion for the development of transnational relations and how these peoples
representations of themselves and of aspects of their lives are affected by
their participation in these systems of globallocal and transnational
locallocal relations.