... Practice Summer Institute in Guelph, Canada, over a dozen improvisers explored new ways of connecting, communicating, improvising, discussing, and writing about their embodied banding improvisations. Nine diverse voices, in addition to Hahn’s observations, serve as examples of embodied experiences...

... worship, as a means of unifying Kongo people around cultural memories of the former Kongo Kingdom. This chapter also considers attempts by the leadership of Bundu dia Kongo to control forms of embodiment that may act as sites from which others may challenge the growing but tenuous authority...

... This chapter ethnographically explores trauma, which—following medical and psychiatric formulations—is comprehended as a returning and repetitive wound. Instead, the chapter examines the varied embodied connotations of trauma embedded in everyday sociality: the body, the economy, and the home...