POVOS INDÍGENAS E O CINEMA BRASILEIRO
ANTROPOLOGIA DOS REGIMES IMAGÉTICOS E DISPUTAS UTÓPICAS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-6524.132757Abstract
The relationship of Indigenous Peoples with the Brazilian nation is a fundamental part of the country's history, which is incorporated in the anthropological reflection of authors such as Darcy Ribeiro and Manuela Carneiro da Cunha. Far from representing a distant colonial past or a series of episodes that have already ended, this theme remains pulsating and problematic, and does not cease to offer the most varied opportunities for reflection on the national idea and its cultural, political and legal assumptions. In national Brazilian cinema, it is possible to say that the Indigenous theme is present from the beginning, and almost always it is linked to the construction of national identity. Indigenous Peoples are still today one of the great forces of national imagery production, whether through the vainglorious idealization of the “first Brazilians”, or in the confrontation of the national character with an “anti-image of White”. In this paper I intend to approach the Indigenous presence in national film production according to different regimes of memory, identity and alterity and their respective “historical situations”.