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| Traveling to remote resorts where the poverty of autochthons underscores tourists' self-indulgent affluence, his nomadic vacationers seek out landscapes of desolation that set off the oases of beauty and luxury where they couple in groups of three or four. Ironically, therefore, the logic of place-based art curation and collection starts to mimic the logic of states under pressure of globalization: Citizens and artists are increasingly defined not as rights-bearing subjects of a nation, who may have come from elsewhere, but as ethnographic autochthons. the population has been divided into two groups: autochthons or populations previously settled (a group comprising those settled before the 15th century) and people coming from elsewhere (a group composed of populations settled from the 15th century onwards). |
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