structures and modes of dwelling
concrete houses might have been modern constructions that reflected the political economy of the 1970s and 1980s, but they also fit within an entire set of cultural categories of different Continue Reading →
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affect, contradiction, and the trouble with symbols
some thoughts about current issues. doubtless people on both sides of this recent dispute will be annoyed at my employment of a distant example to gain perspective, if not purchase, 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 →
o tfon itira: the moon cave (update)
i’ve been working on the sound installation piece “o tfon itira” a bit more recently, making a trip back up to makota’ay to record inside the moon cave. the piece 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 →
