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Appadurai (Arjun) : Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule. A South Indian Case
No full textReiniche Marie-Louise. Appadurai (Arjun) : Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule. A South Indian Case. In: Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer, tome 69, n°256, 3e trimestre 1982. pp. 281-282
Appadurai, Arjun: Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
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A Política de objetos e sujeitos: uma etnografia com um coletivo de titeriteiros e palhaços em Bogotá, Colômbia
Full text linkDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social, Florianópolis, 2011Esta é uma etnografia do coletivo Juventudes Titiriteras JUTI, que agrupa vários grupos de teatro de bonecos e palhaços, quase todos da cidade de Bogotá, tendo como foco as dimensões organizativa e estética do coletivo. Isto, com a intenção de elucidar a noção nativa de "o político", que passa tanto pela tentativa de instaurar uma nova forma dos artistas organizarem-se, quanto pelos esforços por criar propostas cênicas com um componente político mais sutil e complexo. Desta forma, o exercício etnográfico serve para invocar reflexões em torno da relação entre política e estética, e suas implicações concretas no teatro de animação de objetos.This is an ethnographic approach to the JUTI Juventudes Titiriteras collective, which gathers several groups of puppet and clown theatre, almost all of them from Bogotá, with a scope on the collective's political and aesthetical dimensions. The objective is to elucidate the native notion of "political", which involves the attempts to establish a new artists organizative form, and also the efforts to create dramas with a more subtle and complex political component. Therefore, this ethnography brings the possibility to invoke reflections about the relations between politics and aesthetics, and its concrete implications for object animation theatre
Fruitbox/toolbox : biography and objects.
Full text linkThis paper explores some issues to do with the biography of objects, beginning with the idea of the 'cultural biography of things' discussed by Kopytoff (1986) and more recent discussions of the idea within archaeology and anthropology. The limitations with these approaches are identified in terms of treating objects as commodities or gifts that have a cultural presence primarily through the value accorded to them in markets and rituals of exchange. The contradictions of writing a biography of material objects that assumes them to have a 'life' are explored in terms of the literary task of 'writing a life'. It is argued that objects do not have to be identified as 'singular' in terms of their exchange or ritual value for them to be worth writing about but the task of a biography of objects involves taking a particular object and making it singular through the process of writing. The biography of objects is recovered as a useful way of studying the cultural changes through which ordinary objects survive using the example of a toolbox made out of a fruitbox. The paper argues that rather than focussing on the process of exchange as the prime way in which cultural value is assigned to objects, it is the location of the ordinary object in the context of mundane social lives that gives it specificity and singularity
European self-making and India's alternative modernities
No full textThis chapter explores the deep role of what the author calls ‘trajectorism’ in European thought, the tendency to always see its history as some sort of predetermined journey to a desirable destination. Trajectorism is a deeper epistemological and ontological habit that always assumes there is a cumulative journey from here to there, or more exactly from now to then, in human affairs. The chapter argues that trajectorism is the great narrative trap of the west and is also, like all great myths, the secret of its successes in industry, empire and world conquest. One must recognize that contrary to the dominant meta-narrative of western modernity, it is not itself a cumulative, predictable or inevitable outcome of any discernable history. This meta-narrative is itself an expression of a trajectorist ideology, which tends to see Europe itself as a logical outcome of ideas that led from one phase or idea to the next, in some sort of destined manner. The chapter uses this point of view to propose a new angle on the deep contradiction between the ethical goals of the Enlightenment (including its central emphasis on the universality of human reason) and its imperial project, which required the enslavement and exploitation of much of the non-European world
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