MIA BIRDFLU

Here is one of M.I.A.'s latest videos, in which people from an Indian village dance around to her song "Bird Flu" while wearing M.I.A. spirit gear and a splattering of other Williamsburg-style acessories. Like the Mead video, we have folks dancing and prancing. But what justifies M.I.A.'s use of these people in her video? Why don't we find it problematic? Or de we? M.I.A. is not an anthropologist but I think the ethnographic value of this clip is very high. Profit/access/visibility/and the concept of participant-observer are some ideas that come to mind while watching this clip.