Seeing is believing. Photography, ethnography and propaganda in the Ecuadorian Oriente (1893-1940).
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https://doi.org/10.26807/cav.v0i04.85Keywords:
Photography, etnography, History, Shuar, Quichua, Salesian Missions, event, methodAbstract
From María Fernanda Troya’s curatorial proposal of “Seeing to Believe. Photography, ethnography, propaganda in the Ecuadorian Oriente (1893-1940)” exhibition, presented in Arte Actual; this article reviews the assembly device as a methodological “double exposure” of archives research, texts and photographic images based on questioning historical ethnographic authority and the value of photography as a document.
Key words: Photography, ethnography, history, Shuar, Quichua, Salesian Missions, event, method.
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