Abstract

GALLEGO ACEVEDO, LINA MARCELA. CULTURE TO CONSUME? THE YAGUA FACED THE CULTURAL TOURISM IN THE TRAPECIO AMAZÓNICO. Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2011, vol.47, n.1, pp.113-136. ISSN 0486-6525.

In the Amazon, tourism promotes encounters between native indigenous people and Western tourists who staged their cultural difference in terms of juxtaposed polarities, mediated by economic transactions. From the recount of the insertion of the yagua community of La Libertad in the circuits of tourism, and the typical tourist setting, this article approaches the interactions between tourists and natives. In this scenario, tourists behave as consumers of the authenticity of indigenous life associated with the preservation of the Amazon, while indigenous peoples sell this representation to get the resources to be able to buy products and objects associated with tourists' culture and society. Their relationship is mediated by discourses on regional development, tourism operators and a marginal but growing dependency of indigenous peoples on monetary resources.

Keywords : tourism; Amazon; ecotourism; cultural consumption; yagua; handicrafts.

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