Poesía mapuche y decolonización de la fotografía etnográfica en Jaime Huenún

Abstract

The Mapuche poet Jaime Huenún incorporates museological photographs in his book Reductions (2012), polemicizing with this visual device through the decolonizing operations of denouncing the photographic “capture” that is also the kidnapping of those represented there; the forced exposure through poses that required nudity; and the distance of the photographic “shot” that positioned the photographer as a scientific subject. Huenún reveals that these photographic and indigenous skull collections were part of the circulation of ethnographic knowledge in the 19th century; but, in the 21st century, images and bodies can return home