Body Knowledge, Part II: Motion, Memory, and the Mythology of Modernity

IF 0.6 2区哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY

JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI:10.1353/jhi.2022.0011

I. Wilner

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Abstract

Abstract:A photograph depicts anthropologist Franz Boas posing as an Indigenous youth in search of human flesh. It looks like an icon of cultural appropriation, but behind the picture is a history of Indigenous influence. The archive of body knowledge—memories encapsulated in the motions of dance and indexed in images—reveals that the Kwak'wala-speaking peoples civilized the white man who came to study them, converting him to the Host–Guest logic of potlatch encoded in their Hamatsa dance. Seeing Boas as a host body of Indigenous knowledge radically reconfigures our understanding of influence, compelling us to ask who creates modernity.

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身体知识，第二部分：运动、记忆与现代性神话

摘要:一幅人类学家弗朗茨·博阿斯假扮土著青年寻找人肉的照片。它看起来像是文化挪用的标志，但在这幅画的背后是一段土著影响的历史。身体知识的档案——包含在舞蹈动作中的记忆，并以图像为索引——揭示了说Kwak'wala语的人开化了来研究他们的白人，将他转化为编码在哈马萨舞中的主客逻辑。将鲍亚士视为土著知识的主体，从根本上重新配置我们对影响力的理解，迫使我们问谁创造了现代性。

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