Articles about "self-representation"

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Curatorships of the self. Afrodescendence in question

  • Nahayeilli Juárez Huet

Through photographs, interviews, life stories and a dialogic methodology based on horizontality, this visual ethnography reconstructs diverse forms of identification and self-representation that refer, in different ways, to Afro-descendence and its supposed somatic marks. All of this is situated in a regional, urban and contemporary context, historically associated with the Mayan as a dominant alterity and as a foundational component of local identity. The objective is to understand, from the experiences and perspectives of a Yucatecan woman, how the marks of belonging and identity operate in relation to social hierarchies and self-representation, as well as the processes involved in the appropriation or rejection of the categories associated with these marks.