Photographic Encounters

Martín Chambi, Indigeneity and Chile-Peru Relations in the Early Twentieth Century

Bibliographic Data

ID3394979
AuthorsJoanna Crow (0000-0002-9478-973X, University of Bristol, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume51
Issue1
Pages31-58
Publication date2019-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Latin American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-216X • E-ISSN: 1469-767X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022216x18000342
OpenAlexW2885003784
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited33

In 1936, the indigenous Peruvian photographer Martín Chambi travelled to and exhibited his work in Chile. Using a transnational framework of historical analysis, this article explores the multiple meanings of his visit. In particular it underscores the involvement of the Chilean and Peruvian governments in this cultural encounter, and highlights some of the commonalities and connections, as well as differences, between the discourses of race that were circulating in Chile and Peru at the time. This is important because it undermines the dominant historical narratives, which have tended to present Chile as a country that - in contrast to Peru - failed to engage in discussions about the so-called 'indigenous question', and which have interpreted relations between Chile and Peru almost exclusively as antagonistic and hostile

Art · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Indigenous culture · Narrative · Political science · Race (biology) · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America · Ecology · Gender Studies · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America

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