Terapeutiska utflykter : Modernitet, kärlek och självhjälp i samtida ”tribe-tv”

• Narratives about Europeans entering so called premodern cultures have a long tradition, and “tribetv” based on arranged visits from Europeans to “the world’s remotest tribes” has become a growing genre today. In the documentary Tribal Wives, six British women where described as experiencing cultures that had “hardly changed in centuries” and getting one month to reflect over their habits and priorities in life. In search for contrasts between female lives, love and heterosexual contracts the program turn into self-representations based on Eurocentric imaginations. Tribal Wives become a therapeutic journey (set by BBC) aiming to heal modern souls, an adventure to pre-historic land with forgotten truths for the modern woman to bring back to the future.

Keyword

self-help

eurocentrism

postcolonial feminism

reality-TV

självhjälp

eurocentrism

postkolonial feminism

reality-tv

Ethnology

etnologi

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)