A Future Horizon for Restitution in a Film on the Argentinian Puna

Rubén Guzmán's The Noise of Time

Bibliographic Data

ID2163650
AuthorsArnd Schneider (corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume36
Issue5
Pages443-464
Publication date2023-10-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueVisual Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0894-9468 • E-ISSN: 1545-5920
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08949468.2023.2280429
OpenAlexW4391428082
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited21

This article offers a detailed discussion of the film The Noise of Time by Rubén Guzmán (Argentina, 2021). The essay film is a poetic reflection on the morally questionable excavations and anthropological research by the early 20th-century Swedish-Argentine archaeologist-anthropologist Eric Boman (1867-1924), in the northwestern Argentinian high Andes (Puna). In this film Boman has to return as a ghost to the Puna to bury Carpanchay, his former indigenous guide, also now a ghost, in order to redeem for his bad deeds as an archaeologist-anthropologist in real life. This article explores the historical background and, extending on the film's metaphysical message, makes an explicit case for potential restitution (of artifacts from Boman's excavations that are now held in various museums in Argentina and Europe) in the context of the recent restitution debate

Archaeology · Art · Geography · Geometry · Horizon · Noise (video · Political science · Restitution · Computer Science · Latin American Literature Studies · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez · Mathematics · Artificial Intelligence · History · Law

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