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タイトルなし / T U R K A I R O
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Back to Aksum. A fund trust is managing the heritage management. That (World) heritage is given to the pleasure of international tourism: obelisks, archaeological field, the Church. In the frame of the tourists' picture, the people of Aksum wrapped in their 'gabi', the long white sheet of cotton. They look like ghost in the picture. They look like so... folkloric, typical? So good for the picture huh?! "you have to go to the saturday market, told me an official guide, people are coming from the mountains. You will discover another aspect of our heritage: our incredible diversity.-you mean I can see traditional people?" For the guide, the people of Aksum was worthy to discover because of its supposedly conservative and archaic features. Oh yes, on the touristic pamphlets,they say "Ethiopia a museum of people". Ô tourist, you are kindly invited to come in Ethiopia, and discover an incredible humanity: the mursi women in the Omo Valley with the lips disks, the Amhara dancing shaking their shoulders, the Tigrayans wrapped in their dignity, the proud Afar warriors with knives in their fuzzy wuzzy hair... Come here, take pictures, take planes, rent a room, spread allover fistfuls of dollars. Make us richer. The problem is that people are displaced, moved from their places to re-traditionalise the public-space (for the gaze) for the needs of that heritage-marketing. The income does not benefit the local people but the business men from the capital. Local people are asked to be cheerful, respectuous and available for the picture - "an ideal world of a untouched diversity, saved from modernity". They are sold for touristic consumption. This is what could be qualified as prostitution and the managing authorities can be considered of proxenetism. This is an outstanding appropriation of the past. Meanwhile, the UNESCO is re-erecting the Obelisk... (to be continued) |
| 撮影日 | 2008-02-02 11:11:52 |
| 撮影者 | T U R K A I R O |
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