Against the long historical backdrop of 1492, Columbus, and the Conquest, Robert Stam's wide-ranging study traces a trajectory from the representation of indigenous peoples by others to self-representation by indigenous peoples, often as a form of resistance and rebellion to colonialist or neoliberal capitalism, across an eclectic range of forms of media, arts, and social philosophy. Spanning national and transnational media in countries including the US, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, and Italy, Stam orchestrates a dialogue between the western mediated gaze on the 'Indian' and the indigenous gaze itself, especially as incarnated in the burgeoning movement of "indigenous media," that is, the use of audio-visual-digital media for the social and cultural purposes of indigenous peoples themselves. Drawing on examples from cinema, literature, music, video, painting and stand-up comedy, Stam shows how indigenous artists, intellectuals and activists are responding to the multiple crises - climatological, economic, political, racial, and cultural - confronting the world. Significant attention is paid to the role of arts-based activism in supporting the struggle of indigenous artistic activism, of the Yanomami people specifically, to save the Amazon forest and the planet.
Acknowledgments Introduction The Terms of Debate A 1492 Project: Conquest and Discovery The Protocols of Anti-Indigenism The Sacred Land Native Arts and Aesthetics Indigenous Media Chapter One: From France Antartique To Shamanic Critique: The Tupinization Of Social Thought France Antartique and Tupi Theory Filming France Antartique Montaigne and Tupi Theory From France Antartique to the Carib Revolution From the French Philosophes to the American Revolution The French Missions, Levi-Strauss, and the Indian Pierre Clastres, the Anarchist Indigene, and the Wari The Franco-Brazilian Dialogue and the Politics of The Falling Sky Chapter Two: The Indigenous Cunha: The Metamorphosis of a Gendered Trope The Tupinization of Manhattan The Cunha as Filmmaker The Cunha as Myth: Paraguacu Caramuru: The Invention of Brazil The Filmic and Televisual Cunha The Cunha Degraded The Cunha as Warrior The Cunha as Forest Princess The Cunha as Hyper-Woman The Ecological Cunha The Cunha as Activist/Artist Myths of Extinction: The Return of the Vanished Indigene Chapter Three: The Transnational Indian Land and the Frontier Western Going Native Europe's White Indians The Indian Hobbyists Transmedial Indigeneity The Strategic Uses of Humor Painterly Tricksterism Indigeneity and Music First Peoples, First Features Indigenization of Horror Chapter Four: Cross-National Comparabilities: The Indigenization Of Brazilian Media Centennial Commemorations and First Contact Films Variations on a Westward Theme Proto-Indigenist Cinema in Brazil Indigenous Media in Brazil Video nas Aldeias The Archival Turn Corumbiara: on the Trail of Massacres The Guarani and Contrapuntal Narration The Martyrdom of the Guarani-Kaiowa The Transmediatic Indigene of Popular Culture Chapter Five: Triumphs and the Travails of the Yanomami Juan Downey and The Laughing Alligator Crossed Filmic Gazes The Poetics of The Falling Sky The Cinematic Imaginary of the Yanomami Cinematizing Shamanism: Xapiri The Last Forest Conclusion: The Theoretical Indigene: Becoming Indian, And The Elsewhere Of Capitalism Colonial Ambivalence and the Transnational Gaze Transformational Becomings From Republican Constitutions to the Carib Revolution The Theoretical Indigene Indigeneity and the Postcolonial Left Before and After the Nation-State Postcolonialism and the Nurture of Nature The Fear of a Red Academe: Indigenous Decoloniality The Power of Shamanic Critique Capitalism vs. the Planet The Transnational Trope of Indigenous Happiness Coda Index
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