Descripción del proyecto
Los indígenas contemporáneos
Hasta los años sesenta del siglo pasado, los estudios antropológicos consideraban que los pueblos indígenas estaban desapareciendo y al borde de la extinción. Sin embargo, ahora están a punto de convertirse en agentes globales en diferentes ámbitos, desde el cambio climático hasta el Foro Humboldt en Berlín. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos IndiGen estudiará cómo han evolucionado los agentes indígenas, al pasar de «pueblos en extinción» a agentes globales. En la intersección disciplinaria entre antropología, arte, historia, filosofía y política, el proyecto realizará una aportación orientada hacia el futuro a los pueblos indígenas (re)emergentes y la (re)negociación de sus legados (pos)coloniales en Europa y con esta. Se centrará en pueblos indígenas vinculados como formaciones transregionales y transculturales en las intersecciones transpacíficas entre Norteamérica y Sudamérica, Australia y el Pacífico Sur.
Objetivo
10 years after the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, indigenous stakeholders act as global players in arenas such as the UN Convention on Climate Change, the Dakota Access pipeline in the USA, and the Humboldt-Forum in Berlin. Yet, until the 1960s, anthropological inquiries considered the same people as ‘vanishing’ and doomed to disappear. The so-called Indigenous Renaissance presents a remarkable phenomenon of late (post)modernity. How can this surprising process be understood and explained? The objective of this project is to study how indigenous actors evolved from ‘vanishing people’ to global players. The project is located at the disciplinary intersections between anthropology, art, history, philosophy, and politics; and aims at making a future-oriented contribution to (re)emerging indigeneities and the (re)negotiation of their (post)colonial legacies in and with Europe. While the label ‘indigeneity’ circulates globally, it is also defined as a place-based marker of identity. This project breaks new ground by incorporating both dimensions – global circulation and local experience – in a common framework. It does so by studying entangled indigeneities as transregional and transcultural formations along the transpacific intersections between North and South America, Australia and the South Pacific. By untangling these intersections through museums as research sites and laboratories, the project’s sub-objectives are: 1. to historically identify the moments and processes through which indigenous people became re-ascribed through anthropological discourses and their involvement therein, 2. to ethnographically study the ways and forms in which indigenous people appropriate these external ascriptions for self-insertion into global affairs, 3. to experimentally research, in exhibitionary environments, the layers of indigenous continuity beneath the discursive transformation from ‘vanishing people’ to global players.
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitución de acogida
80539 MUNCHEN
Alemania