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... Johnston had a devoted readership who came to experience reading as an embodied act in consuming her Village Voice column and even imitating her style and look. This chapter analyzes fan mail from these readers, both that sent directly to Johnston and those letters published in the Village...

... Chapter 7 reviews an exhibit of the work of Claudia Andújar, a transplanted Swiss photographer who devoted herself to recording the last great flowering of traditional Yanomami culture in the Brazilian Amazon. Encounters between the Yanomami and ethnographers are a focal point of the chapter...

... This chapter discusses the death of the author’s mother. The essay is devoted partly to a description of the rituals of death—Hindu funerals—but the author is also detailing a writer’s response to grief and mourning. Writers might anticipate in what they write the suffering that death will bring...

... The cult of the Virgin spread among demographically diverse, geographically dispersed nineteenth-century constituencies of the Spanish colony. In Cuba’s western region prior to abolition in 1886, black members of ethnically Lucumí cabildos (devotional societies) forged a symbolic relationship...

... Despite the massive policing effort and significant funds devoted to the War on Drugs, the drug problem continues. Most scholarship about the War on Drugs argues that it began in the early 1970s. The United States has, however, pursued a prohibitionist, supply-side approach to the control...

... are challenged to conduct more closely drawn social histories to account for the varied experiences of slavery, and to re-assess the assumption that popular Catholicism among blacks more often than not constitutes a “crypto-religious” phenomenon hiding “authentic” African devotions. The growth of the cult...

... Chapter 3 analyses the televised ritual of the Eucharist on Canção Nova’s TV station. The chapter shows how contemplative devotion builds up and makes elastic a sacred body. Highlighting the doctrinal disputation on the ambiguous status of the Eucharist—whether it is a mere representation...

... Congolese will survive in the future, not if they will. The final chapter is devoted to this epistemology of Black/Congolese aliveness. aliveness poetic epistemology prophecy intimacy futures ...

... is devoted to trying out other ways of living in a broken world, lights paths forward to otherwise futures for us all. cohabitation commensurable undercommons otherwise ...