Renzo Duin
Renzo Duin (PhD 2009) has been trained at the four-field Anthropology Department of the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, and has held teaching and research positions at the University of Florida (USA), Leiden University (the Netherlands), and the University of Oxford (UK). His research in the deep-history of Amazonian landscapes in Guiana (Venezuela east of the Orinoco, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and Brazil east of the Rio Negro and north of the Amazon) has been funded in part by Fellowships and Grants from the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO) and the Wenner-Gren Foundation.
Since 1996, Duin explores the entanglement of things, places, and people of the Maroni River (border between Suriname and French Guiana), and how the materiality of performance contributes to self-identification and the legitimization of power. Research has mainly been conducted in close collaboration with the Wayana indigenous people. Duin has been the principal investigator and team leader of the research project Beauty and the Feast (2010-2014) funded by the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO-Veni) aimed at gaining insight in the materialization of ritual performance and the role thereof in the socio-political landscapes of indigenous tropical forest cultures of the Eastern Guiana Highlands.
Duin’s multi-disciplinary (anthropology, ethnography, history, archaeology), multi-scalar (local, regional, global), multi-focal (backdrop, foregrounding), and multi-vocal (humanities, natural sciences, and indigenous knowledge), approach is developing into two interconnected axis of research; one focused on the (dis)continuities and transformation of Guiana identities, and the second focused on the entwinement of Amazonian indigenous peoples and places of rich biodiversity. Both axis of research interconnect at the level of the historical ecology of cultural landscapes in Guiana.
Supervisors: Michael Heckenberger and Robin Wright
Since 1996, Duin explores the entanglement of things, places, and people of the Maroni River (border between Suriname and French Guiana), and how the materiality of performance contributes to self-identification and the legitimization of power. Research has mainly been conducted in close collaboration with the Wayana indigenous people. Duin has been the principal investigator and team leader of the research project Beauty and the Feast (2010-2014) funded by the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO-Veni) aimed at gaining insight in the materialization of ritual performance and the role thereof in the socio-political landscapes of indigenous tropical forest cultures of the Eastern Guiana Highlands.
Duin’s multi-disciplinary (anthropology, ethnography, history, archaeology), multi-scalar (local, regional, global), multi-focal (backdrop, foregrounding), and multi-vocal (humanities, natural sciences, and indigenous knowledge), approach is developing into two interconnected axis of research; one focused on the (dis)continuities and transformation of Guiana identities, and the second focused on the entwinement of Amazonian indigenous peoples and places of rich biodiversity. Both axis of research interconnect at the level of the historical ecology of cultural landscapes in Guiana.
Supervisors: Michael Heckenberger and Robin Wright
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in the Upper Maroni Basin (French Guiana and Suriname, northern Amazonia); explicating five categories of collaboration.
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In the process of cataloguing, c1assifying, and labeUing, sorne ethnographie objects may have received a description that is difficult for the museum visitor and the broader audience to understand, or which distorts the original meaning of the objects and how the)' came into being. This case study may also be used to reflect upon the role of the field collector. and how his or her actions or assumptions may inadvertently influence the process.
in the Upper Maroni Basin (French Guiana and Suriname, northern Amazonia); explicating five categories of collaboration.
In the process of cataloguing, c1assifying, and labeUing, sorne ethnographie objects may have received a description that is difficult for the museum visitor and the broader audience to understand, or which distorts the original meaning of the objects and how the)' came into being. This case study may also be used to reflect upon the role of the field collector. and how his or her actions or assumptions may inadvertently influence the process.
Depuis l’émergence d’un travail collaboratif de création cinématographique avec les amérindiens Wayana de Guyane française, il semblerait que le média audiovisuel prenne une nouvelle place. Tandis que les jeunes générations montrent un véritable intérêt à s’impliquer dans des projets filmiques, la plupart des films réalisés sur le territoire s'intéresse à l'histoire Wayana. La multiplication de projets vidéo ces quinze dernières années, parfois sollicités par les Wayana eux-mêmes, nous interroge sur la question des modalités de la transmission intergénérationnelle et du remplacement par la vidéo de la narration des histoires, des légendes, et des mythes traditionnels. Au travers du média audiovisuel pourrait se jouer un enjeu majeur : la survie de la culture wayana, qui s’adapte à la modernisation en tentant de s’approprier ses outils. Cela implique un travail commun entre autochtones et personnes extérieures. Pour réfléchir et affiner ce travail collectif, nous abordons la modélisation d’un processus participatif de création cinématographique en milieu autochtone à partir de l’expérience conduite par l’association “Chercheurs d’Autres” sur le long-métrage (documentaire/fiction) “ANUKTATOP: la métamorphose”. Afin d’apprécier le niveau d’implication des différents acteurs, nous proposons une échelle de six catégories qui permet d’apprécier le degré de collaboration des amérindiens dans un projet filmé sur place. Il est ainsi essentiel pour nous d’ouvrir une réflexion sur la gestion de l’espace de création du film (de l’écriture au montage), avec tous les questionnements éthiques que cela soulève.