{"product_id":"indigeneity-and-the-decolonizing-gaze-9781350282353","title":"Indigeneity and the Decolonizing Gaze","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAgainst the long historical backdrop of 1492, Columbus, and the Conquest, Robert Stam's wide-ranging study traces a trajectory from the representation of indigenous peoples by others to self-representation by indigenous peoples, often as a form of resistance and rebellion to colonialist or neoliberal capitalism, across an eclectic range of forms of media, arts, and social philosophy. Spanning national and transnational media in countries including the US, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, and Italy, Stam orchestrates a dialogue between the western mediated gaze on the 'Indian' and the indigenous gaze itself, especially as incarnated in the burgeoning movement of indigenous media, that is, the use of audio-visual-digital media for the social and cultural purposes of indigenous peoples themselves.  Drawing on examples from cinema, literature, music, video, painting and stand-up comedy, Stam shows how indigenous artists, intellectuals and activists are  responding  to the multiple crises -\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith this book, \u003ci\u003eIndigeneity and the Decolonizing Gaze:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Transnational Imaginaries, Media Aesthetics, and Social Thought\u003c\/i\u003e, the always brilliant scholar Bob Stam has given us another tour de force. In this new work he tracks how -- over 500 years -- the possibilities of contemporary Indigenous media emerged in the Americas, with special attention to Brazil. He traces the colonial circumstances and European imaginaries that produced “the Protocols of Anti-Indigenism,” morphed into the “transnational Indian”, and landed in the rich dialogue emerging from contemporary Indigenous media.  Witty, erudite, and politically engaged, this book is essential reading for those who hope to decolonize cinema studies and locate Indigenous media making in a rich historical context. -- Faye Ginsburg, Kriser Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for Media, Culture \u0026amp; History, NYU, USA.\u003cbr\u003eBuilding on research in media studies, anthropology, and social philosophy, this timely book offers an in depth account of the recent indigenous turn in global scholarship, politics, and culture. Particularly impressive is Stam’s ability to relationalize processes and events from diverse historical epochs and geographical regions. -- Sérgio Costa, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Latin American Studies, FU Berlin, Germany\u003cbr\u003eEclectic and breathtaking in its scope, transnational and trans-medial, this book puts on full display Stam’s unique capacity to think across myriad sources and cultural forms in an insightful, sophisticated, and generous way. The book should be an important contribution not only to scholars across but also to cultural producers, activists, and even nonspecialized readers interested in the past and future of indigenous people. -- Gustavo Furtado, Associate Professor of Romance Studies and Co-Director of the Amazon Humanities Laboratory at Duke University, USA\u003cbr\u003eThrough a \"trans-methodology\" that crosses disciplines and boundaries of historical periods and countries, Stam shows us how indigenous peoples have constructed a global and intercontinental response to colonialism over the centuries. As a result, the modern world's history emerges as an \"intertextual mise-en-abyme\", in which indigenous progressive social thought, political practices and arts interpose the colonial imaginary. -- Joana Brandão, Tavares Professor at Federal University of Southern Bahia (UFSB), Brazil\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e The Terms of Debate A 1492 Project: Conquest and Discovery The Protocols of Anti-Indigenism The Sacred Land Native Arts and Aesthetics Indigenous Media    \u003cb\u003eChapter One: From France Antartique To Shamanic Critique: The Tupinization Of Social Thought\u003c\/b\u003e France Antartique and Tupi Theory Filming France Antartique Montaigne and Tupi Theory From France Antartique to the Carib Revolution From the French \u003ci\u003ePhilosophes\u003c\/i\u003e to the American Revolution The French Missions, Lévi-Strauss, and the Indian Pierre Clastres, the Anarchist Indigene, and the Wari The Franco-Brazilian Dialogue and the Politics of The Falling Sky   \u003cb\u003eChapter Two: The Indigenous “\u003ci\u003eCunhã\u003c\/i\u003e:” The Metamorphosis of a Gendered Trope\u003c\/b\u003e The Tupinization of Manhattan The “\u003ci\u003eCunhã\u003c\/i\u003e” as Filmmaker The \u003ci\u003eCunhã\u003c\/i\u003e as Myth: Paraguaçu \u003ci\u003eCaramuru: The Invention of Brazil\u003c\/i\u003e The Filmic and Televisual \u003ci\u003eCunhã\u003c\/i\u003e The \u003ci\u003eCunhã \u003c\/i\u003eDegraded The \u003ci\u003eCunhã\u003c\/i\u003e as Warrior The \u003ci\u003eCunhã\u003c\/i\u003e as Forest Princess The Cunhã as Hyper-Woman The Ecological \u003ci\u003eCunhã\u003c\/i\u003e The “\u003ci\u003eCunhã\u003c\/i\u003e” as Activist\/Artist Myths of Extinction: The Return of the Vanished Indigene   \u003cb\u003eChapter Three: The Transnational “Indian”\u003c\/b\u003e Land and the Frontier Western Going Native Europe’s “White Indians” The Indian Hobbyists Transmedial Indigeneity The Strategic Uses of Humor Painterly Tricksterism Indigeneity and Music First Peoples, First Features Indigenization of Horror   \u003cb\u003eChapter Four: Cross-National Comparabilities: The Indigenization Of Brazilian Media\u003c\/b\u003e Centennial Commemorations and First Contact Films Variations on a Westward Theme Proto-Indigenist Cinema in Brazil Indigenous Media in Brazil Video nas Aldeias The Archival Turn Corumbiara: on the Trail of Massacres The Guaraní and Contrapuntal Narration The Martyrdom of the Guaraní-Kaiowá The Transmediatic Indigene of Popular Culture   \u003cb\u003eChapter Five: Triumphs and the Travails of the Yanomami\u003c\/b\u003e Juan Downey and “The Laughing Alligator” Crossed Filmic Gazes The Poetics of \u003ci\u003eThe Falling Sky\u003c\/i\u003e   The Cinematic Imaginary of the Yanomami  Cinematizing Shamanism\u003ci\u003e: Xapiri\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Last Forest\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003eConclusion: The Theoretical Indigene: Becoming Indian, And The Elsewhere Of Capitalism\u003c\/b\u003e   Colonial Ambivalence and the Transnational Gaze Transformational Becomings From Republican Constitutions to the Carib Revolution The Theoretical Indigene Indigeneity and the Postcolonial Left Before and After the Nation-State Postcolonialism and the Nurture of Nature The Fear of a Red Academe: Indigenous Decoloniality The Power of Shamanic Critique Capitalism vs. the Planet The Transnational Trope of Indigenous Happiness Coda       Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738614477143,"sku":"9781350282353","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350282353.jpg?v=1720049659","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/indigeneity-and-the-decolonizing-gaze-9781350282353","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}