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Indigene Kulturidentität im Spannungsfeld zwischen Tradition und Moderne: Der Fall des Bribri-Volkes in Costa Rica.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Reihe Curupira ; 23Publication details: Bamberg Curupira 2005Description: 205 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9783818504397 3818504393
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  • Indigenous cultural identity in the field of tension between tradition and modernity: The case of the Bribri people in Costa Rica
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Daniel Rojas Conejo analyzes the tension between tradition and modernity in which the cultural identity of the Bribri Indians living in Panama is formed. Not dialogue, but violence and submission form the framework for this formation of identity, which at the same time allows processes of appropriation of something new. Starting from some origin myths of the Bribri, the inherent logic of the myths and the "cultural matrix" that structures the cultural identity is developed. The complementarity of opposites that are not mutually exclusive turns out to be a fundamental difference to the logic of the external world. This is also present in the Bribri belief system, shamanic practices and rituals, which have various symbolic meanings. All of this finally becomes virulent in the Bribri's confrontation with 'new religions'. Not the evangelical sects and the Catholic Church, but the Baha'i religion is the one that most closely reconciles with the Bribri worldview of unity and balance. The tension between cultural traditions and the modern world in the formation of Bribri cultural identity has arisen in the context of a process of subjugation that prevents respect for and social recognition of their cultural difference. The author analyzes the conflict between stigma or discrimination and forms of cultural resistance that enable alternative processes of identification and express the culture and experience of the indigenous community.
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Daniel Rojas Conejo analysiert das Spannungsverhältnis von Tradition und Moderne, in dem sich die kulturelle Identität der in Panama lebenden Bribri-Indianer ausformt. Nicht Dialog, sondern Gewalt und Unterwerfung bilden den Rahmen für diese Identitätsbildung, die zugleich Prozesse der Aneignung von Neuem zulässt. Ausgehend von einigen Ursprungsmythen der Bribri wird die inhärente Logik der Mythen und die „kulturelle Matrix“ entwickelt, welche die kulturelle Identität strukturiert. Die Komplementarität von Gegensätzen, die sich nicht ausschließen, erweist sich als fundamentaler Unterschied zur Logik der äußeren Welt. Dies ist auch im Glaubenssystem, den Schamanenpraktiken und -ritualen der Bribri gegenwärtig, denen verschiedene symbolische Bedeutungen zukommen. All dies wird zuletzt in der Konfrontation der Bribri mit ›neuen Religionen‹ virulent. Nicht die evangelikalen Sekten und die katholische Kirche, sondern die Bahai-Religion ist diejenige, welche sich am ehesten mit der Bribri-Weltanschauung von Einheit und Gleichgewicht in Einklang bringen lässt.

Das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen den kulturellen Traditionen und der modernen Welt in der Bildung der kulturellen Identität der Bribri ist im Kontext eines Unterwerfungsprozesses entstanden, der den Respekt vor und die gesellschaftliche Anerkennung ihres kulturellen Anderssein verhindert. Der Autor analysiert die Auseinandersetzung zwischen Stigmatisierung bzw. Diskriminierung und Formen des kulturellenWiderstands, die alternative Identifikationsprozesse ermöglicht und dieKultur und Erfahrung der indigenen Gemeinschaft zum Ausdruck bringt.

Daniel Rojas Conejo analyzes the tension between tradition and modernity in which the cultural identity of the Bribri Indians living in Panama is formed. Not dialogue, but violence and submission form the framework for this formation of identity, which at the same time allows processes of appropriation of something new. Starting from some origin myths of the Bribri, the inherent logic of the myths and the "cultural matrix" that structures the cultural identity is developed. The complementarity of opposites that are not mutually exclusive turns out to be a fundamental difference to the logic of the external world. This is also present in the Bribri belief system, shamanic practices and rituals, which have various symbolic meanings. All of this finally becomes virulent in the Bribri's confrontation with 'new religions'. Not the evangelical sects and the Catholic Church, but the Baha'i religion is the one that most closely reconciles with the Bribri worldview of unity and balance.

The tension between cultural traditions and the modern world in the formation of Bribri cultural identity has arisen in the context of a process of subjugation that prevents respect for and social recognition of their cultural difference. The author analyzes the conflict between stigma or discrimination and forms of cultural resistance that enable alternative processes of identification and express the culture and experience of the indigenous community.

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