Photographic representation and Indian people

Authors

  • Paulo Humberto Borges Universidade do Oeste do Paraná

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/1984-7939.2010v6n8p195

Keywords:

Indian people, Brakuí community, documental photography, representation

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the aspects of photography as a document and representation of Indian people, specially the Guaranis. In this sense, it presents the results of a photographic workshop with the Indian community of Guarani from Brakuí, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, during an Indian professor course related to history learning. Considering the images done by and about the Indians, the text discuss how this group construct and produces internal and external representations in different situations of a non- Indian world, in an interesting mirror games.

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Author Biography

Paulo Humberto Borges, Universidade do Oeste do Paraná

Fotógrafo documental e indigenista. Professor doutor do Colegiado de Pedagogia do Campo - Unioeste/Cascavel.

Published

2010-12-15

How to Cite

Borges, P. H. (2010). Photographic representation and Indian people. Discursos Fotograficos, 6(8), 195–212. https://doi.org/10.5433/1984-7939.2010v6n8p195

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