DAY OF INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE. PERFORMING INDIGENEITY IN VENEZUELA.

In this thesis, I explore the ways by which two indigenous peoples represent themselves in the context of national politics in Venezuela during the so-called Bolivarian Revolution. In particular, I offer an anthropological understanding of bodily practices and visual elements that the Wayúu and t...

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Main Author: Saturno, Lourdes Silvana
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Published: OpenSIUC 2018
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spelling ndltd-siu.edu-oai-opensiuc.lib.siu.edu-theses-32922018-12-20T04:42:55Z DAY OF INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE. PERFORMING INDIGENEITY IN VENEZUELA. Saturno, Lourdes Silvana In this thesis, I explore the ways by which two indigenous peoples represent themselves in the context of national politics in Venezuela during the so-called Bolivarian Revolution. In particular, I offer an anthropological understanding of bodily practices and visual elements that the Wayúu and the Pume peoples use to index their indigenous identities in the context of televised meetings to commemorate the Day of Indigenous Resistance in Venezuela. In order to do so, I follow the theoretical approach proposed by Graham and Penny (2014) in which performances of indigeneity are understood as actions that (1) are representations of local and traditional performances that are historically and culturally contingent and (2) involve a creative process that connects local realities with national and global political agendas. Likewise, I draw on current anthropological understandings on the concepts of authenticity and folklorization. The data used to carry out this research was the footage of television programs that the Venezuelan state TV channel (Venezolana de Televisión) broadcasts every October 12 from 2002 to the present, as well as ethnohistorical information about the aforementioned indigenous peoples. Due to their particular socio-historical processes, as well as their current situation, the Wayúu and the Pume peoples have shaped the images of indigeneity at different levels. On the one hand, the Wayúu people have become iconic within the images of indigeneity shaped in the national political arena. On the other hand, the Pume people have been fairly absent in national politics. When present, they have performed their most important ritual – the tõhe –, a ritual that according to themselves is the ultimate expression of their identity as a group. 2018-05-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2278 https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3292&context=theses Theses OpenSIUC Identity Indigenous movement Indigenous peoples Venezuela
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topic Identity
Indigenous movement
Indigenous peoples
Venezuela
spellingShingle Identity
Indigenous movement
Indigenous peoples
Venezuela
Saturno, Lourdes Silvana
DAY OF INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE. PERFORMING INDIGENEITY IN VENEZUELA.
description In this thesis, I explore the ways by which two indigenous peoples represent themselves in the context of national politics in Venezuela during the so-called Bolivarian Revolution. In particular, I offer an anthropological understanding of bodily practices and visual elements that the Wayúu and the Pume peoples use to index their indigenous identities in the context of televised meetings to commemorate the Day of Indigenous Resistance in Venezuela. In order to do so, I follow the theoretical approach proposed by Graham and Penny (2014) in which performances of indigeneity are understood as actions that (1) are representations of local and traditional performances that are historically and culturally contingent and (2) involve a creative process that connects local realities with national and global political agendas. Likewise, I draw on current anthropological understandings on the concepts of authenticity and folklorization. The data used to carry out this research was the footage of television programs that the Venezuelan state TV channel (Venezolana de Televisión) broadcasts every October 12 from 2002 to the present, as well as ethnohistorical information about the aforementioned indigenous peoples. Due to their particular socio-historical processes, as well as their current situation, the Wayúu and the Pume peoples have shaped the images of indigeneity at different levels. On the one hand, the Wayúu people have become iconic within the images of indigeneity shaped in the national political arena. On the other hand, the Pume people have been fairly absent in national politics. When present, they have performed their most important ritual – the tõhe –, a ritual that according to themselves is the ultimate expression of their identity as a group.
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title DAY OF INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE. PERFORMING INDIGENEITY IN VENEZUELA.
title_short DAY OF INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE. PERFORMING INDIGENEITY IN VENEZUELA.
title_full DAY OF INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE. PERFORMING INDIGENEITY IN VENEZUELA.
title_fullStr DAY OF INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE. PERFORMING INDIGENEITY IN VENEZUELA.
title_full_unstemmed DAY OF INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE. PERFORMING INDIGENEITY IN VENEZUELA.
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