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General MacArthur among the Guna The Aesthetics of Power and Alterity in an Amerindian Society

机译:冈纳(Guna)中的麦克阿瑟(MacArthur)将军美洲印第安人社会中的权力与变更美学

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This article deals with issues surrounding the study of indigenous appropriations of symbols of military power. It focuses on the case of Guna people from the San Blas Archipelago of Panama who, in the 1940s, carved some wooden figures in the likeness of General Douglas MacArthur and used them as auxiliary spirits in collective healing rituals. By appealing to anthropological reflections on the notion of style, the article suggests a correlation between stylistic variations in forms of visual art, sociality, and power. It exploits the potential of style analysis for interpreting historical phenomena from an anthropological perspective. It is argued that there is a strong link between the stylistic changes in Guna woodcarving and the sociopolitical transformations that occurred in the middle of the twentieth century. The Guna figures of MacArthur are the outcome of a stylistic switch toward individuation, paralleled by the creation of strong political subjects called upon by the historical events of the first half of the twentieth century in San Blas. Finally, the case of cross-cultural appropriation discussed in the article shows the potential of ethnographic studies of local lived worlds in furthering the understanding of global events such as World War II.
机译:本文涉及围绕着对军事力量符号的本土占有的研究。它以巴拿马圣布拉斯群岛的古纳人为例,他们在1940年代以道格拉斯·麦克阿瑟将军的身份雕刻了一些木制人像,并将其用作集体疗养仪式中的辅助精神。通过呼吁人类学对风格概念的反思,本文提出了视觉艺术,社会性和力量形式上的风格变化之间的关联。它利用样式分析的潜力从人类学的角度解释历史现象。有人认为,古纳木雕的风格变化与20世纪中叶发生的社会政治变革之间有着密切的联系。麦克阿瑟(MacArthur)的古纳(Guna)人物是风格转向个人化的结果,与此同时,二十世纪上半叶的历史事件在圣布拉斯(San Blas)呼吁建立强大的政治主题。最后,本文讨论的跨文化拨款案例表明,人种学研究当地生活世界的潜力可进一步增进对第二次世界大战等全球事件的理解。

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