Lost World, Found Paradise: Place, Identity and Production in Gran Sabana, Venezuela ; Mundo perdido, paraíso encontrado: lugar, identidad y producción en la Gran Sabana, Venezuela
The bases of a type of production enmeshed in the capitalist system emerged in GranSabana during the twentieth century, but still nowadays a part of its ancestral Pemoninhabitants maintain a notably autonomous economy of subsistence. In order to explainthis situation, in this article I identify how exoticising narratives of place and identityconstructed around the Gran Sabana and its ancestral inhabitants have contributed to consolidate a reductionist polarisation that approaches all social issues in theregion through an analytical distinction between ‘indigenous’ and ‘non-indigenous’spheres.... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2013 |
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Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH
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Schlagwörter: | Gran Sabana / Pemon / indigeneity / Venezuela / pemón / indigenidad |
Sprache: | Spanish |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26864499 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://revistas.icanh.gov.co/index.php/rca/article/view/289 |
The bases of a type of production enmeshed in the capitalist system emerged in GranSabana during the twentieth century, but still nowadays a part of its ancestral Pemoninhabitants maintain a notably autonomous economy of subsistence. In order to explainthis situation, in this article I identify how exoticising narratives of place and identityconstructed around the Gran Sabana and its ancestral inhabitants have contributed to consolidate a reductionist polarisation that approaches all social issues in theregion through an analytical distinction between ‘indigenous’ and ‘non-indigenous’spheres. In addition, I examine material foci that, independently from those spheres of analysis, structurally diversify the inhabitants of Gran Sabana. I argue that takingthese material foci of social diversification into account should be crucial for thosewho seek solutions to existing problems in the region. https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472X71 ; Durante el siglo XXafloraron en la Gran Sabana las bases de una producción insertaen el sistema capitalista, pero aún hoy parte de sus habitantes ancestrales, indígenas pemón, mantienen una economía de subsistencia notablemente autónoma. Este trabajo examina, por una parte, cómo las narrativas exotizantes de lugar e identidadconstruidas en torno a la Gran Sabana y sus habitantes han contribuido a consolidar una reduccionista polarización analítica de esferas “indígenas” y “no-indígenas”; por otra parte, identifica focos materiales de diversificación estructural entre los pobladoresde la Gran Sabana más allá de esas esferas, y reclama atención para dichos focos en la búsqueda de soluciones a los conflictos en la región. https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472X71