Title: Ethnographic returns : memory processes and archive film /
Authors: Gustavsson, Anne,
Year: 2021
Subjects: Photography in ethnology; Ethnic barriers; Museums and indigenous peoples; Collective memory; Group identity; Collective memory; Ethnic barriers; Group identity; Museums and indigenous peoples; Photography in ethnology
Abstract: "In the past decades cultural heritage stored at museums and archives has been returned to source communities in various forms and under diverse circumstances. This contribution to the Elements series explores and discusses specifically the return of digital 'ethnographic' images to indigenous and non indigenous people that share a common recent history of coexistence and dispute over the same territory that is to be understood in the light of the consolidation of a Nation State with a settler colonial logic. The author argues that the affective reception of what a given archive labels as tangible and intangible heritage varies according to each audience´s particular memory practices, historical experience and way of relating to shared hegemonic notions of 'whiteness' and 'indigeneity'."--Publisher's description.
Contents: 1. Introduction: "Revisiting ethnographic sites, decentering authorized interpretations?" -- 2. "Indians" and "Gauchos" captured by the lens of Swedish explorers in the Argentine Chaco -- 3. Readings of the past and the affective reception of an archive film -- 4. Final reflections: reframing ethnographic heritage.