pigs and rites of passage
everyone gets a three day weekend for double ten, so it’s a good day to gather one’s age mates, friends, and community elders for a celebration. one needs the assistance Continue Reading →
Author: deej
katiposan: a change in wind
nothing could prepare me for how sudden tipos, the north wind, arrived, screaming through the betel palms and rattling the steel garage doors and house windows. with the shift in Continue Reading →
memory and sticky matter (with apologies to jane bennett)
to what extent is memory contagious, sticky, and bound with the material qualities of particular media? how might installation art works on memory connect with ecocritical practice? these questions are Continue Reading →
temporalities of religious practice
here’s a question for those of you who work on the anthropology of space and time: how much work has been done on the temporality of religious practice? maybe it’s Continue Reading →
decolonizing method in interasian popular music studies? a few questions (2)
several years ago, one of my teachers at chicago, rt smith, complained that we grad students were always talking about “applying theory, as if it were a poultice.” professor smith Continue Reading →
