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... commemoration ritual practice national ceremony America Japan ...

... culture such as the effects of the September 11 attacks. commemoration ritual practice national ceremony America Japan ...

... presented the rebels as indiscriminate eaters whose sexuality marked them as “detribalized” Africans. The deviant sexual practices that supposedly accompanied Mau Mau oathing rituals proved that they were not legitimate Africans—therefore, their demands for land and freedom could be ignored. Mau Mau...

... This chapter analyzes moral economies, forms of social imagination, techniques of enchantment, and spurs to affect commonly belittled, easily dismissed, yet pervasive in/around humanitarian practices. Humanitarian object-beings like Trauma Teddies and Aid Bunnies combine humanity and animality...

... On July 30, 2001, Alejandro Toledo was inaugurated as president of Peru in a ceremony that took place in Machu Picchu—the quintessential icon of tourism in the country. In addition to national state officials and Latin American presidents, the ceremony included Andean ritual experts. One of them...

... ground his theorization of the insidious regime of “heteroperpetuity,” which he defines as encompassing a range of political imperatives, social arrangements, and cultural practices and productions mobilized to protect and perpetuate heteronormative dominion. Highlighting its hegemony over black drag...

... explores how the museum curators translated both Nazario and his practices using Andeanist anthropology as an expert language and notions of Native American spirituality. Representation, a notion central to museum practices, is explored in this story. It was a site of epistemic disagreement between Nazario...

... Chapter 4 considers how a somewhat younger generation of artists using postminimalism and performance moved away from practices captivated by redeeming African American histories in realist and didactic ways, to those whose logic was more future-oriented and engaged with the virtual. David...

...: as embodiments of a basic human goodness, as sufferers, as seers of truth, as ambassadors of peace, and as embodiments of the future. These registers depend on each other for their affective and ritual power, and catalyze many practices including humanitarian fundraising, sponsoring children, and knitting...

... reclaims this covered ground by looking at the exhibited work of Hopi artist Fred Kabotie (c. 1900–1986). He painted ceremonial dances from memory at boarding school during the height of federal Indian assimilation policy and bans on Pueblo religious practice. His diagrammatic approach, inspired...

... the bones and thereby ground the statistics and testimonies of truth commission reports and to reembed people back into family structures, rituals of mourning, and court cases against perpetrators, like General Ríos Montt. The chapter examines the controversy over the number 200,000—the war’s death toll...

...Indigenous Philosophies of Nature, Culture, and Place This chapter begins the exploration of indigenous ecological concepts and practices in Porgera. There is no word for nature or ecology in Porgera, so this chapter and the following two argue that any deep understanding of ecological...

... and practice. The selected bibliography which follows is, then, an attempt to supplement the works cited in the individual essays. As such, it has been limited to sources not cited elsewhere in the volume. Thus, the volume Popular Beliefs and Superstitions of The Frank C. Brown Collection of North...

... and practice. The selected bibliography which follows is, then, an attempt to supplement the works cited in the individual essays. As such, it has been limited to sources not cited elsewhere in the volume. Thus, the volume Popular Beliefs and Superstitions of The Frank C. Brown Collection of North...

... and practice. The selected bibliography which follows is, then, an attempt to supplement the works cited in the individual essays. As such, it has been limited to sources not cited elsewhere in the volume. Thus, the volume Popular Beliefs and Superstitions of The Frank C. Brown Collection of North...

... and practice. The selected bibliography which follows is, then, an attempt to supplement the works cited in the individual essays. As such, it has been limited to sources not cited elsewhere in the volume. Thus, the volume Popular Beliefs and Superstitions of The Frank C. Brown Collection of North...

... and practice. The selected bibliography which follows is, then, an attempt to supplement the works cited in the individual essays. As such, it has been limited to sources not cited elsewhere in the volume. Thus, the volume Popular Beliefs and Superstitions of The Frank C. Brown Collection of North...