O suporte videográfico entre os índios Tapeba: produção e afirmação de identidade étnica

Abstract

With the advent of video cameras in the mid-70s, the fields of communication and social sciences witnessed the birth of a technological tool that changed a number of theoretical and methodological procedures within the academy. In possession of equipment lighter and easier to handle some anthropologists began to use video cameras and / or portable audio recorders in his ethnographic research. Similarly, documentary filmmakers and ethnographic techniques employed in the process of making their films, especially those that occurred in indigenous communities or isolated populations. In this dissertation we analyze two videos from the point of view the use of videographic support as an instrument of ethnic affirmation and production of an indigenous identity Tapeba, constructive actions observed in memory of identity that develop in and from those audiovisual narratives, and through strong presence of orality. Since the beginning of the 80s, a period of intensified manifestations in Ceará indigenous and other Northeastern states, several audiovisual (photographs and documentaries) took part in a kind of strategy use and dissemination of indigenous interests.