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Tools of the Trade; or, Women’s Works
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 175–181.
Published: 01 April 2024
... from generation to generation, singing the chants. You see, in many ways, the ceremonies have always been changing. —Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony The Kwi—made from the kalbas or calabash tree ( Crescentia Cujete )— are the simple, sacred, and profane holder of rasanblaj, a gathering...
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Indigo
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 518–519.
Published: 01 October 2023
.... The Kwi—made from the kalbas or calabash tree ( Crescentia Cujete )— are the simple, sacred, and profane holder of rasanblaj, a gathering of ideas, things, people, and spirits, (Though not necessarily in that order!). The Ochre came first, a gift handed to me by a Wiradjuri artist in Darwin...
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Three Women
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 359–360.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Makhosazana Xaba Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 Three women step out of the Calabash hotel The sudden wave of freezing raindrops-filled winds Hits them. They hug in haste, run to the two cars Midnight approaches, sounding louder & louder The youngest woman, alone in her...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 April 2024
...?” (197). Our next piece, a stunning Visual Essay by Gina Athena Ulysse, offers a subtle but powerful example of artmaking as epistemology and ontology. “Tools of the Trade; or, Women’s Works” brings together kwi (gourds) made from the calabash tree—which is native to the Caribbean—and the ocher...
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Grounding Emotions Across Borders: Zapotec Healing Practices in Places and Times of Social Strife
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Meridians (2025) 24 (1): 237–260.
Published: 01 April 2025
... , a bowl made from a calabash tree. At the end of the ritual, family members and the healer either walk or drive the distressed individual back to their home. Meanwhile, family members throw bougainvillea flower petals on the ground en route to the individual’s home. They guide the injured individual’s...
