Indios y burros
Rethinking “la India María” as Ethnographic Cinema
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18990307 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ariel Zatarain Tumbaga (Antelope Valley College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 759-772 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Research Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8791 • E-ISSN: 1542-4278 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.25222/larr.646 |
| OpenAlex | W3116190103 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 11 |
This article traces the origins of María Elena Velasco’s comic character “la India María” through what Fatimah Tobing Rony has labeled ethnographic film . It explores how Velasco’s first film, Tonta, tonta, pero no tanto (dir. Fernando Cortés, Mexico, 1972), borrows conventional linguistic and performative representations from the so-called Indigenista films of Emilio “Indio” Fernández and Benito Alazraki. The essay also studies how popular discourses regarding Indigenous intelligence and the trope of illiterate Natives as “burros” coincide with the state ideologies behind comic representations of Indigenous characters
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Character (mathematics) · Comics · Ethnography · Humanities · Ideology · Indigenous · Linguistics · Literature · Movie theater · Navajo · Performative utterance · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Latin American Cultural Politics · Latin American history and culture · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |