take on the voices of others is part of a compulsive performance of trying on cultures, races, ethnicities, ages, and classes outside her own as she strives to reach beyond her identity and limitations as a “little white kid.” Thebes’s language is
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Ritual Infrastructure
Roads to Certainty in Two Brazilian Religions
Inger Sjørslev
ritual performances brings forth ontological certainty by way of the cultivation of subjectivities via objectification, all within a field of strong sociality, because as in a classical performative sense, the audience is the testimony to the certainty of
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 65–78
European Bodies
Who Embodies europe? Explorations into the Construction of european Bodies
Anika Keinz and Paweł Lewicki
hierarchies that conflate essentialised national representations with lifestyles, class, gender performances and race ( Lewicki 2016 ; Ryan 2010 ). These phenomena show that there is a ‘spectre of Orientalism’ ( Buchowski 2006 ; see also Melegh 2006 ) and
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Jun 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 7–24
Performing humanitarian militarism
Public security and the military in Brazil
Stephanie Savell
). Throughout this article, I touch repeatedly on how the media and the military partner in the performance of security. Jean and John Comaroff (2004) argue that there is always some degree of melodrama in policing. Especially in cases where “governance is
Laughter in the Ghetto
Cabarets from a Concentration Camp
Lisa Peschel
exactly how a colleague of Dr Leo Strauss, an Austrian cabaret artist from Vienna, described Strauss's work. As Arno Neumann wrote to mark Strauss's 1400th cabaret performance in the ghetto, ‘no bursts of laughter are heard in response to his subtly
“I Am Trying” to Perform Like an Ideal Boy
The Construction of Boyhood through Corporal Punishment and Educational Discipline in Taare Zameen Par
Natasha Anand
their rhetoric of meritocracy, opportunities for doing boyhood are rather circumscribed, and limited by the quality of a boy’s academic performance. With India taking its place on the global stage as an expanding economic and political power, it becomes
Shadows, Screens, Bodies, and Light
Reading the Discursive Shadow in the Age of American Silent Cinema
Amy E. Borden
grouping of magic and motion pictures as cultural practices each occupied with illusion, performance, and disappearing bodies. In doing so, it sketches a discursive and conceptual terrain in which to understand how figural bodies were broadly considered and
Eluding the Esculacho
A Masculinities Perspective on the Enduring Warrior Ethos of Rio de Janeiro's Police
Celina Myrann Sørbøe
both in the police culture and in the favela. I thus situate the warrior ethos as a masculine performance shaped by gendered role expectations in the organizational, occupational, and street-working environment of the police. With this emphasis on the
Alexandra Wright
death overcome them. It takes some energy to be able to refocus our attention away from ‘Die Juden’ [‘the Jews’] and the more hostile choruses that are set to the words of the Gospel. Seeing performances of the St John Passion in which the choir and
Blood and the City
Animal Representations and Urban (Dis)orders during the ‘Feast of the Sacrifice’ in Istanbul and Khartoum
Alice Franck, Jean Gardin, and Olivier Givre
on animal welfare and industrialised slaughtering (for economic as well as sanitary purposes) may (and indeed begin to) deeply impact the performance of sacrifice in contemporary societies. Far from limited to ecology-friendly societies, notions of
In Anthropology of the Middle East
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 85–111