Appropriation as Practice Art and Identity in Argentina

This book makes a major contribution to the current debate on globalization, and more precisely to the question of how the "traffic in culture" is practiced, rationalized and experienced by visual artists. 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.

Arnd Schneider is Reader in Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London.

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 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