The Cracks, Bumps, and Dents of ‘Culture Collecting’: Examples from the Study of South American (Fire) Fans

Rybka, Konrad

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dc.creator	Rybka, Konrad
dc.date	2020-12-05
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-29T18:07:04Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-29T18:07:04Z
dc.identifier	http://journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/indiana/article/view/2798
dc.identifier	10.18441/ind.v37i2.121-146
dc.identifier.uri	http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/151356
dc.description	Ethnography, a means of representing the culture of a people graphically and in writing, as well as ethnographic museums, institutions devoted to conserving, contextualizing, and displaying indigenous heritage for wider audiences, strive to portray cultures adequately and on their own terms. However, given that the ethnographic enterprise has virtually always been carried out by and within non-indigenous scientific structures, its products are at a high risk of being tinged by the Western lens, in particular Western scientific theory and practice. This article focuses on the ethnographic record of South American fire fans – defined by ethnographers as tools for fanning cooking fires – to demonstrate how such biases can be removed by taking stock of the entirety of the relevant ethnographic heritage and analyzing it through the prism of the documented practices in which such objects are enmeshed, including the very practice of ethnography. In the light of such practices, the ethnographic record of fire fans deconstructs into a corpus of historical documents revealing the momentary, yet meaningful, technological choices made by the indigenous craftsmen who produced the objects and exposing Western categories, Kulturkreise mentality, and culture-area schemata imposed on them.	es-ES
dc.description	Ethnography, a means of representing the culture of a people graphically and in writing, as well as ethnographic museums, institutions devoted to conserving, contextualizing, and displaying indigenous heritage for wider audiences, strive to portray cultures adequately and on their own terms. However, given that the ethnographic enterprise has virtually always been carried out by and within non-indigenous scientific structures, its products are at a high risk of being tinged by the Western lens, in particular Western scientific theory and practice. This article focuses on the ethnographic record of South American fire fans – defined by ethnographers as tools for fanning cooking fires – to demonstrate how such biases can be removed by taking stock of the entirety of the relevant ethnographic heritage and analyzing it through the prism of the documented practices in which such objects are enmeshed, including the very practice of ethnography. In the light of such practices, the ethnographic record of fire fans deconstructs into a corpus of historical documents revealing the momentary, yet meaningful, technological choices made by the indigenous craftsmen who produced the objects and exposing Western categories, Kulturkreise mentality, and culture-area schemata imposed on them.	en-US
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut - Preußischer Kulturbesitz	es-ES
dc.relation	http://journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/indiana/article/view/2798/2277
dc.rights	Derechos de autor 2020 INDIANA	es-ES
dc.rights	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0	es-ES
dc.source	INDIANA; Vol. 37 No. 2 (2020); 121-146	en-US
dc.source	INDIANA; Vol. 37 Núm. 2 (2020); 121-146	es-ES
dc.source	INDIANA; Bd. 37 Nr. 2 (2020); 121-146	de-DE
dc.source	INDIANA; v. 37 n. 2 (2020); 121-146	pt-BR
dc.source	2365-2225
dc.source	0341-8642
dc.source	10.18441/ind.v37i2
dc.subject	collection	en-US
dc.subject	fire fans	en-US
dc.subject	Lowland South America	en-US
dc.subject	colección	es-ES
dc.subject	abanicos para fuego	es-ES
dc.subject	planicies de Sudamérica	es-ES
dc.title	The Cracks, Bumps, and Dents of ‘Culture Collecting’: Examples from the Study of South American (Fire) Fans	es-ES
dc.title	The Cracks, Bumps, and Dents of ‘Culture Collecting’: Examples from the Study of South American (Fire) Fans	en-US
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion