On gaze, writing and speech. An example of an interdisciplinary approach to various narrative modalities of the (Italian) Capuchin Missions of the Apostolic Prefecture in La Araucanía (1848-1901)
Authors
Margarita Alvarado
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Ignacio Helmke
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
A photograph taken in the nineteenth century by the photographer Rodolfo Knittel Reinsch somewhere in southern Chile (today Región de Los Ríos in Chile), that allegedly registers an encounter – trawün as a ritual political act carried out under two different logics, and committing the relations between two worlds in the late nineteenth century- is the starting point of a research on several textual and visual archive sources. Our approach is that through analysis and crossings under an interdisciplinary perspective, between photographs and documents, it is possible to know and reflect upon certain events and relationships that occurred between the mapuche society and the missions of the Capuchin friars (Italians). We seek to look into coincidences and distances between textual and visual sources under questions such as: What synchronies and mismatches occur between the situations raised or represented in texts and images? What would be the relationships of significance between a given corpus of texts and a set of images for reading and interpretation of certain processes, relationships and events? Would establishing links between speech, writing and gaze imply a contribution to a better understanding of the relations between mapuche and Capuchins friars?
Alvarado, M., Helmke, I., & Inostroza, X. (2019). On gaze, writing and speech. An example of an interdisciplinary approach to various narrative modalities of the (Italian) Capuchin Missions of the Apostolic Prefecture in La Araucanía (1848-1901). Revista Chilena De Antropología, (40), 333–368. Retrieved from https://revistachilenahumanidades.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/55860
