How the "traffic in culture" is practiced, rationalized and experienced by visual artists in the globalized world. The book focuses on artistic practices in the appropriation of indigenous cultures, and the construction of new Latin American identities. Appropriation is the fundamental theoretical concept developed to understand these processes.

Autorentext
ARND SCHNEIDER is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway.

Inhalt
The Paradoxes of Identity in Argentina On Appropriation Sites of Appropriation: the Buenos Aires Art World Copy and Creation: Potters, Graphic Designers, Textile Artists Fashionable Savages: Photographic Representations of the Indigenous Setting Up Roots: On the Set of a Cinema Movie in a Mapuche Reservation Practices of Artistic Fieldwork and Representation: The Case of Teresa Pereda's 'Bajo el Nombre de San Juan' The Indigenisation of Identity