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Abstract:

The cinematic scene of instruction highlights forms of knowledge-transfer in films from Abiayala/Latin America and crucially responds to different pedagogical motives. This article analyzes different film "scenes" and economies of learning in El abrazo de la serpiente [The Embrace of the Serpent] (Ciro Guerra, 2015). Drawing not only on diegetic scenes of instruction from El abrazo but also on paratextual sources—the press kit, interviews, script, and other scholars' published analyses of the film—I argue that the screened relationships in and across the film model forms of tutelage that shape the audience's approach to "learning" and understanding of their right to discover Indigenous knowledges.