Embodying Colonial Memories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Embodying Colonial Memories write by Paul Stoller. This book was released on 1995. Embodying Colonial Memories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Embodying Colonial Memories is the first in-depth study of the West African Hauka, spirits in the body of (human) mediums which mimic and mock Europeans of the colonial epoch. Paul Stoller, who was initiated into a spirit possession troupe, recounts an insider's tale of the Hauka with respect and "brotherly" deference. He combines narrative description, historical analysis, and reflections on the importance of embodiment and mimesis to social theory, with particular reference to the Songhay peoples of the Republic of Niger. Why have the Hauka mimicked white men and their colonial behaviors? In this innovative book, Stoller argues that mimicry is about power. To copy something is to master it. Through the Hauka, the Songhay try to divert the power of the Europeans. Embodying Colonial Memories not only desribes a spirit possession cult; it considers such significant subjects as the cultural sentience of the body, the dynamics of colonial movements of resistance, and the particularly poignant political discourses of West African postcolonies. -- Back cover.
Embodying Colonial Memories
Embodying Colonial Memories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Embodying Colonial Memories write by Paul Stoller. This book was released on 2014-01-02. Embodying Colonial Memories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of the West African Hauka - spirits that grotesquely mimic and mock "Europeans" of the colonial epoch. The author considers spirit possession as a set of embodied practices with serious social and cultural consequences. Embodying Colonial Memories is the first in-depth study of the West African Hauka, spirits in the body of (human) mediums which mimic and mock Europeans of the colonial epoch. Paul Stoller, who was initiated into a spirit possession troupe, recounts an insider's tale of the Hauka with respect and "brotherly" deference. He combines narrative description, historical analysis, and reflections on the importance of embodiment and mimesis to social theory, with particular reference to the Songhay peoples of the Republic of Niger.
Sensuous Scholarship
Sensuous Scholarship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sensuous Scholarship write by Paul Stoller. This book was released on 2010-11-24. Sensuous Scholarship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Among the Songhay of Mali and Niger, who consider the stomach the seat of personality, learning is understood not in terms of mental activity but in bodily terms. Songhay bards study history by "eating the words of the ancestors," and sorcerers learn their art by ingesting particular substances, by testing their flesh with knives, by mastering pain and illness. In Sensuous Scholarship Paul Stoller challenges contemporary social theorists and cultural critics who—using the notion of embodiment to critique Eurocentric and phallocentric predispositions in scholarly thought—consider the body primarily as a text that can be read and analyzed. Stoller argues that this attitude is in itself Eurocentric and is particularly inappropriate for anthropologists, who often work in societies in which the notion of text, and textual interpretation, is foreign. Throughout Sensuous Scholarship Stoller argues for the importance of understanding the "sensuous epistemologies" of many non-Western societies so that we can better understand the societies themselves and what their epistemologies have to teach us about human experience in general.
Embodying Borders
Embodying Borders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Embodying Borders write by Laura Ferrero. This book was released on 2021-01-14. Embodying Borders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on extensive field research, the essays in this volume illuminate the experiences of migrants from their own point of view, providing a critical understanding of the complex social reality in which each experience is grounded. Access to medical care for migrants is a fundamental right which is often ignored. The book provides a critical understanding of the social reality in which social inequalities are grounded and offers the opportunity to show that right to health does not correspond uniquely with access to healthcare.
Intimate Empire
Intimate Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intimate Empire write by Nayoung Aimee Kwon. This book was released on 2015. Intimate Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Colonial modernity and the conundrum of representation -- Translating Korean literature -- A minor writer -- Into the light -- Colonial abject -- Performing colonial kitsch -- Overhearing transcolonial roundtables -- Turning local -- Forgetting Manchurian memories -- Paradox of postcoloniality.
