entangled hopes
“Matrilineal” is really a codeword for the ways in which mimesis of settler forms does not extinguish ‘Amis claims to particularity and self-determination. But what else does matirlineal mean in Continue Reading →
Tag: projects of scale
looking like a foreigner
How might we see concrete houses as something other than ruins, as haunted by something other than settler projects? I suggest that we juxtapose the haunting image of the Continue Reading →
performed but not spoken (2): symbolic reduction, language ideology, and ‘amis popular music
We are used to the idea that language is a form of cultural patrimony. Many arguments for endangered language preservation, in fact, begin from this premise, which defines languages as Continue Reading →
far oceaning and imagined communities
although our sinophone neighbors hardly ever mention far oceaning, unless they have connections to tungkang or kaohsiung’s caoya harbor, far ocean narratives did enter into national imaginations as well as Continue Reading →
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 →
