The Jumara Festival of Panamá: Cinema and Body in Motion

[eng[ Based on an ethnography of the First Jumara International Indigenous Film Festival, which took place in an Emberá community in Panama, the aim of this article is to delve deeper into the connection between the processes of ethnicity derived from Indigenous cinema and the processes of ethnicity...

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Autor: Izard Martínez, Gabriel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/223032
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/223032
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cinema etnogràfic
Pobles indígenes
Festivals de cinema
Panamà
Ethnographic films
Indigenous peoples
Film festivals
Panama
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Sumario:[eng[ Based on an ethnography of the First Jumara International Indigenous Film Festival, which took place in an Emberá community in Panama, the aim of this article is to delve deeper into the connection between the processes of ethnicity derived from Indigenous cinema and the processes of ethnicity derived from the meaning given to that cinema at specific events. At Jumara, Indigenous cinema was the reason for affirming Emberá culture and for championing, in a markedly festive and performative way, the group's main demands in a celebration in which the body and its ornamentation took on a special role. It is argued that the ethnographic focus on festivals organized in Indigenous communities makes it possible to fully analyze the committed and activist dimension of Indigenous cinema.