Abstract
Hybridity and Identity was a photographic exhibition organised to think about ideas of hybridity, mixture, mimic, adaptation, authenticity and diversity in the life of people in Llin Llin Pucará, an indigenous community in the Ecuadorian Andes. Capturing both special events and daily activities, the photos presented how elements once foreign, have now become core to the community’s identity.
Drawing on Nestor García Canclini’s theory on the hybridisation of culture, the photos mean to show people’s capacity to incorporate, adapt and own new ideas and practices in their life, which is present in the performance of religious events (integrating Christian beliefs to indigenous custom), entertainment activities as in the rodeo (a colonial inheritance), and in the adaptation and use of new technologies and consumption patterns. The exhibition was formed by twenty pictures. All of them were taken during the fieldwork for the PhD thesis Navigating through a plural-legal system. Indigenous women access to justice in the Ecuadorian Andes.
Drawing on Nestor García Canclini’s theory on the hybridisation of culture, the photos mean to show people’s capacity to incorporate, adapt and own new ideas and practices in their life, which is present in the performance of religious events (integrating Christian beliefs to indigenous custom), entertainment activities as in the rodeo (a colonial inheritance), and in the adaptation and use of new technologies and consumption patterns. The exhibition was formed by twenty pictures. All of them were taken during the fieldwork for the PhD thesis Navigating through a plural-legal system. Indigenous women access to justice in the Ecuadorian Andes.
| Original language | English |
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| Media of output | Online |
| Publication status | Published - 19 Oct 2018 |