Conclusion
This chapter has argued for the application of experimental photographic reenactments as a method for enhancing nuanced interrogations of history, cultural identity, and photographic archives as fundamentally performative.
The import of this approach is that it clearly discloses how a multitude of performative claims and articulations of indigeneity come into play, and how they—while forged in opposition to, yet formed within, an “imperial” master discourse—display a complex diversity rather than referring to simple chronologies of cause and effect. Reenactment helps to establish this heterogeneity of positions and articulations. It can contribute to a more nuanced debate about knowledge claims that underline the fragmentednature of history-making by continually critiquing taken-for-granted ideas and explanations and dominant stories through companionship and imaginative exploration.
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