Resumen de Creating images, creating identity: Image, Drama and Identity in the Hã-Hã-Hãe Struggle for Recognition
While visual anthropologist always appreciated the instant playback capabilities of digital imaging devices as achance for getting direct feedback from the people in the field, visual anthropology, which proposed itself as onepossible answer to anthropology’s “representational crisis”, hasn’t changed the relation between the researcher andthe “researched”. The paper proposes participatory video as an anthropological praxis to mix up and confuse therelation between “authors”, “objects” and “consumers” of scientific and folk knowledge, through a collaborative andcreative engagement, drawing on recent fieldwork with a group of Hã-Hã-Hãe Indians in north-eastern Brazil. “Drama”,“image” and anthropological “writing” are discussed as genres that provide the basis for the filmic representation ofthe indigenous struggle for recognition, the Indians’ “story” itself, and its anthropological discussion.
