Project description
Long-term colonial effects on Indigenous cultural transmission
The mission system and colonisation have profoundly impacted the history, Indigenous memory, and cultural transmission of the Shuar people in lowland Ecuador. The EU-funded MEEHIL project aims to study the complexities and contradictions between Indigenous narratives of history and the colonial narratives shaped by missionary intervention among the Shuar people. Specifically, the project will study how colonial history continues to affect Indigenous politics today and how the presence of missionaries has shaped Indigenous lands. It will review historical archives from the late 19th-century Salesian and Franciscan missions, gather testimonies from Indigenous participants, and map the influence of missionaries on Indigenous territories. Overall, MEEHIL will shed light on the long-term colonial influences on people’s perspectives and contemporary political developments.
Objective
This research project aims to study the entanglements and discrepancies between indigenous understandings of history and colonial narratives created by missionary intervention amongst the Shuar people of lowland Ecuador. It will examine how history, indigenous memory, and cultural transmission have been developed and produced in the context of missionisation and colonial pressure. It aims to understand how colonial history still impacts indigenous politics today, shaping current indigenous engagements with large-scale resource extraction and allowing extractive capital to endure and perpetuate over time. To achieve these objectives, this research reviews the historical archives available in the region from the Salesian and Franciscan missions since the late 19th century, will collect and archive film footage of testimonial memories from indigenous participants on their complex relationship with the missionary endeavours and boarding schools, and will map how missionary presence shaped indigenous land. The use of these three different methodologies will be combined to provide a clear ethnographic study that aims to understand and describe the long-term effects of colonial entanglements on people’s attitudes, thinking, and current political developments. Overall, this research project is concerned with colonial residues and proposes to look at land demarcation, history, and cultural transmission to understand not only the impacts of colonialism in its tangible political ubiquity but also in its pervasive and intangible influence over concepts that help people define their worldview.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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