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Accepted Paper:
Cultural policies, narratives and aesthetic of an identity: an analysis of Mayan audiovisual productions in Yucatan, Mexico
Francisco Fernandez-Repetto
(Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan)
Cultural policies, narratives and aesthetics are part of a new scenario when promoting the production of videos among mayan people of the Yucatan. We analyze this scenario and the implications of a collaborative research when producing the videos,
Paper long abstract:
In recent years in Yucatán, Mexico there has been an important number of audiovisual productions, promoted by state policies in order to maintain and disseminate a particular representation of the Maya and the Mayans. These include not only Mayan language as a key element to assume that the videos are of and about Mayan peoples but also, that these videos are a Mayan perspective of their socioeconomic problems and identity.
Here we analyze how Mayan peoples' narratives, representations and identities are negotiated in a number of videos that are part of this audiovisual offer produced under the technical guidance of the National Council for the Development of the Indigenous Communities (CDI). We also take into account how this analysis is affected when dealing in a collaborative research.