Resumo

NAHMAD RODRIGUEZ, Ana Daniela. Las representaciones indígenas y la pugna por las imágenes. México y Bolivia a través del cine y el video. Latinoamérica [online]. 2007, n.45, pp.105-130. ISSN 2448-6914.

In this text are analyzed the visual constructions formulated on the groups of Latin American natives, emphasizing the current existence of a fight for the representations, since in them exercises of power and dominance are synthesized. This phenomenon is contrasted with the resistance that the indigenous groups have undertaken before the “colonization” of the images, by means of the handling of the audiovisual media. The relationships are knitted among politics, culture and image to demonstrate the conflict of the Latin American natives in front of the cultural and economic hegemonies.

Palavras-chave : Native movies; Visual representations; Nationalism; Media communication; Indigenous movements; Mexico; Bolivia.