Post #624111 by aquarj on Wed, Feb 8, 2012 11:08 AM

On 2012-02-08 10:49, bigbrotiki wrote:
...And it is good to mourn the loss of indigenous cultures, and support the efforts of those who work for the recognition of the cultures' values and truths.

Yeah, well that's the puzzling thing to me, because Covarrubias had a great deal of work that aimed to do just that, particularly with his love of Bali. I guess that blogger's hangup is less about the people and more about some implied statement in the Covarrubias work behind them. But it's kind of ironic or at least misguided to see it as some kind of exploitation. In reality, the thrust of Covarrubias' work was just the opposite - not exploitation but recognition, preservation, celebration!

And about the Stubenberg image - woops! Was that a menu? If so, the blogger's estimate of circa 1950 has got to be way off, right?

-Randy