Contemporary dance in Haiti challenges global stereotypes of its people, their country, and their worldmaking. Mario LaMothe profiles four celebrated Haitian choreographers to examine the influences that nurtured the generative and transgressive dance practices found today in the Caribbean nation. LaMothe weaves Vodou teaching practices with ......
The Good Road situates Guatemala's early 1980s Indigenous uprising and the genocide that crushed it in a five-hundred-year history of Indigenous resistance to colonization and exploitation. Drawing on decades of archival and ethnographic research, Carlota McAllister traces the emergence of conciencia, a Spanish word meaning both consciousness and ......
The Good Road situates Guatemala's early 1980s Indigenous uprising and the genocide that crushed it in a five-hundred-year history of Indigenous resistance to colonization and exploitation. Drawing on decades of archival and ethnographic research, Carlota McAllister traces the emergence of conciencia, a Spanish word meaning both consciousness and ......
Among their celebrated achievements, the ancient Maya are renowned for developing a highly sophisticated writing system. Their unique hieroglyphic script adorns stone and wood monuments, as well as portable objects. Drawing on a wealth of research, this remarkable book-the third and final volume in The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs series-offers ......
Brazilian musician Tom Ze (b. 1936) is one of the most inventive artists of the past century. His transformative music and poetic lyricism received critical acclaim in Brazil's Tropicalia, a countercultural movement that blended Brazilian music with global pop, psychedelia, and political critique. As many in the movement ascended to the ......
Brazilian musician Tom Ze (b. 1936) is one of the most inventive artists of the past century. His transformative music and poetic lyricism received critical acclaim in Brazil's Tropicalia, a countercultural movement that blended Brazilian music with global pop, psychedelia, and political critique. As many in the movement ascended to the ......
In Smaddification, Amanda Michelle Reid uses performance and dance studies to consider body politics in mid-twentieth-century Jamaica following its independence. According to Jamaican scholar and artistic leader Rex Nettleford, cofounder of the National Dance Theater of Jamaica, "smaddification" refers to the process of becoming someone: of ......
In Smaddification, Amanda Michelle Reid uses performance and dance studies to consider body politics in mid-twentieth-century Jamaica following its independence. According to Jamaican scholar and artistic leader Rex Nettleford, cofounder of the National Dance Theater of Jamaica, "smaddification" refers to the process of becoming someone: of ......
The Persistence of Creative Resistances in Neoliberal Chile
Viscous Performances examines the endurance of creative protest performances in Chile from the 2011 student mobilizations to the aftermath of the 2019 social revolt. Drawing from performance theory, feminist new materialisms, affect studies, and decolonial perspectives, Maria Jose Contreras Lorenzini situates Chilean practices of resistance within ......