A MYTH REJECTED - THE NOBLE SAVAGE IN DOMINICAN DYSTOPIA Academic Article

abstract

• AbstractThis interdisciplinary study approximates the Columbian interpretation of the Ta nos filtered and re-interpreted by the Dominican people, through their museums. Cultural phenomena such as vomitic spatulas, talking idols, hallucinogens, infant cranial deformation, dances, nudity, sexual customs, punishments, and live burial produced Columbus's tendency to denounce the Tanos in his writings. These texts are displayed in the Museo del Hombre Dominicano side-by-side with anthropological exhibitions. Together, these texts and artifacts become purveyors of an ideology, one which Dominicans use to challenge the Eurocentric, romanticising, Noble Savage approach propagated during the Quincentennial.

authors

• Kallendorf, Hilaire

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

author list (cited authors)

• KALLENDORF, H.

citation count

• 2

complete list of authors

• KALLENDORF, H

publication date

• May 1995

publisher

• Cambridge University Press (CUP)  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Latin American Studies  Journal

keywords

• 43 History, Heritage And Archaeology

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1017/S0022216X00010828

start page

• 449

end page

• 470

volume

• 27

issue

• 2

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1017%2Fs0022216x00010828