The politics and aesthetics of attraction in the Gran Poder festival
Reflections on a 'methodology of affect
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12930742 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nico Tassi (0000-0003-0781-8131, UCL Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 1970-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology Matters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1758-6453 • E-ISSN: 1758-6453 |
| Publisher | NomadIT (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.22582/am.v9i1.60 |
| OpenAlex | W1553338390 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
For indigenous residents in Bolivia's capital city, La Paz, the religious festival of Gran Poder represents a fierce and proud expression of cultural resistance to the practices of the dominant creole sectors, and also an endeavour to entice the privileged other to the attractive dynamics of the festival. In this intercultural context, the interplay of resistance and inclusion attempts to redress the oppressive discriminating practices experienced by the urbanised indigenous. Such a delicate operation is ultimately performed not so much at a discursive level but rather through a series of aesthetic and performative practices where sensorial 'attraction' holds a pre-eminent value. After highlighting the functioning of such 'practices of attraction', I will move on to describe my involvement in them and analyse the challenges they pose to the ethnographic work and to the practices and demeanours of anthropology. If emotional involvement and sensorial engagement are qualities often discouraged in our academic upbringing, in this specific context they enabled me to bridge theory and practice and to 'understand in the flesh' field dynamics without considering the native's world as holding an epistemological disadvantage in relation to the anthropologist's. This personal physical involvement allowed me to take 'native conceptions' seriously, therefore using them and sensing the constraints our own disciplinary principles may exert on them
Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics · Art · Context (archaeology · Discipline · Ethnography · Indigenous · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Redress · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · History · Law · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |