Visual Anthropology and the Collaborative Process with Incarcerated Women in the Photographic Diptychs Antropología de la mula by Adriana Bustos
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| Materyal Türü: | artículo original |
| Durum: | Versión publicada |
| Yayın Tarihi: | 2026 |
| Diğer Bilgiler: | Introduction: The four photographic diptychs of Antropología de la mula, by the Argentinian artist Adriana Bustos, offer a dialectical representation of female drug carriers. Objective: As a result of an artistic intervention practice in a prison, this paper analyzes the representation —in Antropología de la mula— of the contrast between prison reality and the expectations of four women who participated in international drug trafficking. Methods: The theoretical framework used for this analysis is based on a Visual Feminist Anthropology approach. The portfolio studied is the product of a collaborative process between a group of incarcerated women and Bustos. Both actors establish a counter-hegemonic narrative, analyzed through autoethnography. Results: The diptychs stage the dehumanization of the female drug carrier visualizing her as a mule, an animal which acquires the allegorical meaning of the exploitation of human beings by the drug trafficking economy. Conclusions: The ‘mule’ represents the contemporary version of a series of subaltern subjects whose bodies have been disciplined by capitalist postmodernity, thus turning them into ‘pack animals’, participants, as well as victims, of international drug trafficking. |
| Ülke: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Kurum: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Dil: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/4534 |
| Online Erişim: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rescena/article/view/4534 |
| Anahtar Kelime: | autoethnography drug trafficking concept art photographic diptych subaltern subject autoetnografía narcotráfico arte conceptual díptico fotográfico sujeto subalterno |