UpClose
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Title
UpClose
Subject
Faces and bodies of local residents around Mount Mabu
Description
After Mount Mabu became popular in 2005, when scientists became familiar with it using GoogleEarth, the mountain slowly became known as "a wilderness area", which was devoid of human presence. All the information and archives produced about Mount Mabu and the people living there were produced through what could be called a bird-eye-view approach and narrative that lacks intimacy, bodies and experiences of people living in the area. The effects of such deletion of local people from landscapes in other contexts have been violence against local people, evictions and dispossessions. This UpClose and Intimate view, seeks to bridge that gap that hopefully could help destabilize the colonial notion of wilderness, and rather celebrate the diversity of relations between people and natures. This collection brings to the fore the people of Mount Mabu and through their gaze invite the user to local people's ontologies and ways of living.
Creator
Anselmo Matusse
Source
PhD, Anselmo Matusse
Publisher
Anselmo Matusse
Date
2016-2018
Contributor
National Geographic Society; National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences- NIHSS_CODESRIA
Rights
Anselmo Matusse
Relation
Mount Mabu
Format
photography
Language
Portuguese, English and Manhaua
Type
Still image
Identifier
Faces, bodies, experiences
Coverage
Lugela District, Zambezia Province, Mozambique
Collection Items
Angelo posing for a photo with his wife, daughter and grandchild
Angelo posing for a photo in from f his house with his wife, daughter and grandchild.