Indigenous self-representation as a politic of identities resistance

• Autor(a) principal: Kaseker, Monica
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Nakamura Gallassi, Adriana, Ribeiro, Lucas Fernando
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Mídia.e.Cotidiano
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uff.br/midiaecotidiano/article/view/53387
• topic: Autorrepresentação; Povos indígenas; Políticas de identidade; Autorrepresentación; pueblos indigenas; Política de identidad; Self-representation; Indigenous people; Identity politics

Since the Portuguese arrival in Brazil, in 1500, the native peoples have been represented by the Eurocentric bias. It appeared in the letters of the first explorers sent to the Portuguese Crown, in the catechization sermons, in the paintings made during expeditions that documented the territory and, later, in books, and in several didactic, audiovisual and journalistic materials. The decolonial turn began at the end of the 20th century, when Brazilian indigenous people started to record and publish their own images and narratives. Through theoretical research and literature review, from the perspective of Cultural and Decolonial Studies, it appears that communication is the central element of indigenous identity policies and self-representation marks the break with the image of the generic, static in time and stereotyped indigenous, which we consider a politic of identities resistance.