Hybrid Bodyscapes: A Visual History of Yanesha Patterns of Cultural Change

dc.contributor.authorSantos-Granero, Fernando
dc.date.accessioned2011-04-21T16:39:59Z
dc.date.available2011-04-21T16:39:59Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines cultural change and hybridity through a visual history of the alterations in dress, ornamentation, and body treatment experienced by the Yanesha of Peruvian Amazonia in postcolonial times. Such transformations often appear to be fluctuations between tradition and modernity explained alternatively as instances of “acculturation” or as expressions of “invented traditions” and “postmodern identity politics.” By focusing mainly on external factors, these theoretical approaches pay insufficient attention to the role of native perceptions and practices in promoting cultural change. Approaches that do take into consideration these perceptions, such as those centered on the notions of “passing” and “mimesis,” do not apply to this particular case. Adopting a Yanesha perspective as a departure point, I argue that what appear to be expressions of acculturative processes are the result of a long‐standing indigenous openness to the Other—particularly the white and mestizo Others—and the native conviction that the Self is possible only through the incorporation of the Other. Such incorporation always finds expression in bodily transformations, hybrid bodyscapes that change throughout time according to the shifting relationships between Self and Other.`
dc.format.extent477–512
dc.identifier0011-3204
dc.identifier.citationSantos-Granero, Fernando. 2009. "<a href="https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/15947">Hybrid Bodyscapes: A Visual History of Yanesha Patterns of Cultural Change</a>." <em>Current Anthropology</em>, 50, (4) 477–512. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1086/604708">https://doi.org/10.1086/604708</a>.
dc.identifier.issn0011-3204
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10088/15947
dc.relation.ispartofCurrent Anthropology 50 (4)
dc.titleHybrid Bodyscapes: A Visual History of Yanesha Patterns of Cultural Change
dc.typearticle
sro.description.unitSTRI
sro.identifier.doi10.1086/604708
sro.identifier.itemID80037
sro.identifier.refworksID78927
sro.identifier.urlhttps://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/15947

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