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Mixedblood Mediation and Territorial Re-Inscription in Ceremony
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 157–178.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Marilyn Miller Copyright © 2000 by Wesleyan University Press 2000 MixedbloodMediationandTerritorial Re-Inscriptionin Ceremony MARILYN MILLER thereis a small light in thesmoke,atiny sun in theblood,sodeep it isthereandnot there, sopure it issinging. -Wendy Rose,"If I AmTooBrownorTooWhitefor...
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Published: 01 October 2020
Figure 6. The swearing-in ceremony and celebration referenced in an El Diario La Prensa article on January 24, 1965. From right: Officiant, unknown; Carla Rosa, Presidenta; Santiago Aponte, Vice-Presidente; Luis Figueroa, Secretario; Delia Ortiz, Tesorera; Pablo Ortiz, Counsejero. On the back
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Young Afghan-Canadian Women’s Negotiations of Gendered Cultural Scripts and Hybrid Cultural Identities
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 410–439.
Published: 01 October 2023
... in-depth feminist interviews to reveal second-generation Afghan-Canadian women’s gendered negotiations of partner-selection practices and marital ceremonies, including their resistance and conformity to these practices through the mobilization of their hybrid diasporic identities. Overall, the study design...
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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
...Gina Athena Ulysse [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Smith College 2024 But long ago when the people were given these ceremonies, the changing began, if only in the aging of the yellow gourd rattle or the shrinking of the skin around the eagle’s claw, if only in the different voices...
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Bodies, Choices, Globalizing Neocolonial Enchantments: African Matriarchs and Mammy Water
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 41–66.
Published: 01 March 2002
... our culture, we often swallow our pride to read offensive works. 2 Richards, a colonial white woman anthropologist, observed the Chisungu ceremony of the Bemba people, who are now located in Zambia, in 1931.At the time she wrote, Richards knew that this specific culture that she was recording...
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Whale Songs
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 8–13.
Published: 01 April 2019
... underwater. I wrote daily with short phrases written or spoken by the Jamaican theorist Sylvia Wynter. This is part of what happened. These pieces are excerpts my forthcoming book with Duke University Press, Dub: Finding Ceremony . totorobonsu made the world by breathing. totorobonsu made the world...
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Vodou, the Arts, and (Re)Presenting the Divine: A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 11–48.
Published: 01 April 2022
... listen to that. It’s kind of like the stories that some African American performers share about being raised in the church and becoming secular singers, and not being allowed to listen to secular music at home as children! But whenever there were Vodou ceremonies at the peristil next door, my brother...
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The Politics of Place and Racism in Australia: A Personal Exploration
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 194–207.
Published: 01 March 2001
... of the Sydney Olympics. She lit the torch at the pinnacle of the spectacular opening ceremony. Her gold medal was greeted with great emotion by millions of Australian viewers. She is not only the heroine of the Olympics, with one of Australia's rare track golds, but also, for many Australians, she is the symbol...
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African Literature and the Woman: The Imagined Reality as a Strategy of Dissidence
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 195–208.
Published: 01 March 2006
... AND THE WOMAN 197 So much is involved here. There is need for a cautious rhetoric in a different grammar of emotions. There is need for a pedagogy that informs carefully by breaking the old mold and revealing its absurdities and ugly contradictions. One such example can be found in the critical naming ceremony...
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Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme’s The Reign of Wazobia
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 330–352.
Published: 01 March 2017
... asks why "must widows be subjected to the torment of incessant funeral rites that men are free of under similar circumstances" (Onwueme 1988, 143). She dismisses traditions that are not in keeping with the times by the declaration that "these women have more urgent roles than such ceremonies meant...
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Matter and Memory: Black Feminist Poetics and Performance in Berlin, Germany
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 115–145.
Published: 01 April 2023
... ). Today, Afro-Germans engaged in local political struggles for recognition in Germany have celebrated such renaming ceremonies, which constitute some of the few hard-earned victories in the fight against anti-Blackness in public space. Togo, Cameroon, German East Africa (present-day Tanzania), and German...
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Butterfly in the Wind
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 176–179.
Published: 01 March 2005
..., Kamla extols Hindu traditions. Several pages are devoted to detailed descriptions of Hindu religious ceremonies; and in the same way that she offers extensive comments on the ills of that religion, she presents remarks in praise of Hindu prayers and rituals. For example, in a covert critique...
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Rehumanizing Ainu: Performance of Desubjectification and a Politics of Singularity
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 210–234.
Published: 01 April 2024
... and preindustrial (or worse, prehistoric) manner, but are contemporary urbanites in Japan like any other Japanese (Roth 2005 ). Wearing ceremonial regalia and singing and dancing by reconstructed huts is their way of offering Ainu cultural education to the visitors, preserving their heritage, and promoting...
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Between the Sensuous and Sacred: A Postcolonial Reading of African Spirituality, Sexuality, and “The Erotic” Through Mbari Art in Igboland, Nigeria
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Meridians (2025) 24 (1): 63–88.
Published: 01 April 2025
... houses” was a ritual house that he described as consisting of “fetish objects relating to terrible rites, religious beliefs and marriage ceremonies of the Owerri Ibo people” (163). Subsequently, he documented his experiences through photographs, showcasing this ritual complex, which the Owerri community...
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Caring for the Dead: Corpse Washers, Touch, and Mourning in Contemporary Turkey
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 350–370.
Published: 01 October 2022
... the funerals of atheists and nonbelievers may involve ceremonies that are also organized according to this Muslim script but without the religious attachment. 4 Family members and sometimes also friends and neighbors participate in this ritual either religiously, non-religiously or secularly to enact...
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Mes del viento Month of Wind
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 14–28.
Published: 01 April 2024
... ceremonies in places where nobody could see them. It was a loss of cultural history that cut with my grandfather. He taught us everything that has to do with the knowledge of the territory, he knows everything. But never about identity. We never had a lesson of Mapudungún, he never told us anything...
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Letter-Poems to Shauki Masi: Diasporic Queer South Asian Muslim Reflections on the Five Pillars of Islam
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 183–192.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Anniversary Edition . New York : Harper One . Wilson Shawn . 2008 . Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods . Halifax, Canada : Fernwood . ...
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The Making of Viequenses : Militarized Colonialism and Reproductive Rights
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 360–382.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., in fact, stressed the particulars of her birth during the Maker of Our History ceremony. The seemingly marginal detail was likewise featured in the booklet that covered the event. The account in its many reiterations highlighted not only Susana Centeno and Juanita Santiago’s intervention but also...
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Mi Casa Is Not Su Casa : A Research Reflection
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 278–294.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Figure 6. The swearing-in ceremony and celebration referenced in an El Diario La Prensa article on January 24, 1965. From right: Officiant, unknown; Carla Rosa, Presidenta; Santiago Aponte, Vice-Presidente; Luis Figueroa, Secretario; Delia Ortiz, Tesorera; Pablo Ortiz, Counsejero. On the back...
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Kartini Day
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 136–146.
Published: 01 April 2020
...-com.libproxy.smith.edu/docview/152238233?accountid=13911 (accessed January 24 , 2020 ). Mahy Petra . 2012 . “ Being Kartini: Ceremony and Print Media in the Commemoration of Indonesia’s First Feminist .” Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific 28 ( March ). http...
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