LITERATURE, ART, AND MUSIC: <i>Cuna Indian Art: The Culture and Craft of Panama's San Bias Islanders.</i> Clyde E. Keeler

Holloman, Regina E.

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“…What was once new soon becomes representative and traditional. In the mid-20th century, the neighbors of the Emberá, the Kuna, formed dance societies (Holloman 1969:480, Smith 1984 and developed a variety of secular dancing (from traditional roots) which was made available to visiting foreigners, and later, tourists (Smith 1984:257-258, Howe 2009. Nowadays, these dances are considered to be part of the Kuna tradition, and like other similar indigenous performances can be seen as creative practices "embodying indigenous cultural meaning" (Citro 2010:365).…”

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Emberá Indigenous Tourism and the Trap of Authenticity: Beyond Inauthenticity and Invention

Theodossopoulos¹

2013

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Prompted by tourist commentary that describes an Emberá community in Panama as "inauthentic" or "invented," I examine the limitations of these concepts when used to refer to cultural practices of indigenous communities. To escape from a limiting, singular vision of authenticity, I argue, attention should be paid to the multiple and overlapping meanings of the authentic as these are negotiated in particular contexts. In the case of Emberá indigenous tourism, the tourists' search for an authenticity uncorrupted by modernity inspires indigenous articulations of the authentic related to diverse sets of cultural practices not only in the past, but also in the present. Acknowledging this complexity can set us free from the trap of a singularly conceived authenticity.

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Emberá Indigenous Tourism and the Trap of Authenticity: Beyond Inauthenticity and Invention

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2013

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LITERATURE, ART, AND MUSIC: Cuna Indian Art: The Culture and Craft of Panama's San Bias Islanders. Clyde E. Keeler

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Emberá Indigenous Tourism and the Trap of Authenticity: Beyond Inauthenticity and Invention

Emberá Indigenous Tourism and the Trap of Authenticity: Beyond Inauthenticity and Invention

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