Representations of Baja California Indians as ethnographic art

IF 0.5 2区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI:10.1080/10609164.2023.2205219
Max Carocci
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ABSTRACT The few existing pictures of Indigenous peoples of Baja California before the age of photography offer a precious window into the peninsula’s past inhabitants. The synoptic analysis of the material culture depicted in this imagery, from both religious and secular sources, reveals that the credibility of the pictures is based on highly contingent notions of truth that emerge from contextual relationships between images and texts. The essay maintains that representational differences mirror distinct ways of thinking about the depiction of ethnographic subjects. Although variability in style may depend on artistic ability and skill, diversity in subject and mode of representation are as much the product of multiple intermedial entanglements as they are the result of implicit aims and purposes. This unprecedented comparative exercise, while eliciting questions about what counts as accuracy in distinctive artistic and literary genres, encourages a reflection on the nature and role of images whose lives straddle between art and anthropology.
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下加利福尼亚印第安人作为民族志艺术的表现
摘要:在摄影时代之前,下加利福尼亚州为数不多的原住民照片为我们提供了一扇了解该半岛过去居民的珍贵窗口。从宗教和世俗两个来源对这幅图像中所描绘的物质文化进行的概要分析表明,这些图像的可信度是基于图像和文本之间的语境关系所产生的高度偶然的真理观念。本文认为,表征差异反映了对民族志主题描述的不同思考方式。尽管风格的可变性可能取决于艺术能力和技巧,但主题和表现方式的多样性既是多重中介纠缠的产物,也是隐含目标和目的的结果。这种前所未有的比较练习,在引发关于在独特的艺术和文学流派中什么是准确的问题的同时,鼓励人们反思生活在艺术和人类学之间的图像的性质和作用。
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期刊介绍: Colonial Latin American Review (CLAR) is a unique interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of the colonial period in Latin America. The journal was created in 1992, in response to the growing scholarly interest in colonial themes related to the Quincentenary. CLAR offers a critical forum where scholars can exchange ideas, revise traditional areas of inquiry and chart new directions of research. With the conviction that this dialogue will enrich the emerging field of Latin American colonial studies, CLAR offers a variety of scholarly approaches and formats, including articles, debates, review-essays and book reviews.
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