what can you sing: the tellable and not so tellable in song lyrics
it makes me seem like a total geek to admit it, but a pleasing research task for me is going through the large corpus of ‘amis songs that i have Continue Reading →
Tag: aesthetics
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 →
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 →
mi amor, porque te vas
it turned out that the song the faki mentioned was not an uruguayan song after all, but one that had shared meaning in the context of the relationships that formed Continue Reading →
concrete houses as a mediating form
i have a problem in my research. because i focus on far ocean fishing, an occupation that many taiwanese indigenous political and cultural activists consider deleterious to indigenous communities, the Continue Reading →
