spears or umbrellas? dance and the politics of stance
what are the stakes in the revival or reformation of ritual? to answer that question we might ask (1) what kinds of stances do particular revivals or ritual practice afford, Continue Reading →
Month: April 2015
weaving songs around far oceaning
while on the boats or at home, those connected with the far ocean trade weaved songs about their experiences. on the one hand, many of these songs made it into Continue Reading →
For What We Can Hope? part three: houses as mediators of hope
*note: some of this material reworks and rewrites some earlier appearing on this blog, but with a slightly different perspective We can see what Lear has called radical hope in Continue Reading →
For What Can We Hope? part two: radical hope
radical hope As I look at solafo and listen to the stories of the ‘Amis women and men who built and lived in them, I am often reminded of Jonathan Continue Reading →
For What Can We Hope? part one: where is the stairway going?
here is the first part of a translation, with some added explanatory material, of the post over at guava: where is this stairway going? Nearby my residence in ‘Atolan, a Continue Reading →
