Wayumi: Ficciones sobre el Otro

New Tribes Mission (NTM) is a transnational group of Christian missionaries that have the main goal to evangelize and contact indigenous people isolated in América, Asia, and Africa. This essay is a case study of the video “Wayumi-Your adventure into tribal missions // New Tribes Mission” produced by NTM (2009). The audiovisual circulating and is on the web. The article problematizes indigenous peoples representation through the name that the missionaries give them such as “unreached ethnic groups” and works conceptual discussions debates such as authenticity, exotism, the noble savage and colonialism. Methodologically, the paper focuses on visual discourse analysis and semiotic analysis.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.47725/RAV.028.11

Palabras Claves
visual anthropology
authenticity
exotism
the noble savage
indigenous representation.
Autor
Juan Fabbri. Licenciado en Antropología, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés. Maestría en Antropología Visual y Documental Antropológico, FLACSO–Ecuador. Docente e Investigador del Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas y Arqueológicas de la Universidad Mayor de San Andrés y Gestor Cultural de la Fundación Cultural del Banco Central de Bolivia. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8559-0203
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Revista de Antropología Visual - número 28 - Santiago, 2020 -1/17 pp.- ISSN 2452-5189