Place-Responsive Choreography and Activism

Sensory encounters with place, site and landscape have the potential to stimulate new and deeply felt engagements with local places, and to prompt discussion about the relationships between place, culture and identity. Such sensory encounters may also off

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Global South Ethnographies Minding the Senses

Edited by elke emerald Griffith University, Australia Robert E. Rinehart University of Waikato, New Zealand and Antonio Garcia Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile

A C.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN: 978-94-6300-492-3 (paperback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-493-0 (hardback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-494-7 (e-book)

Published by: Sense Publishers, P.O. Box 21858, 3001 AW Rotterdam, The Netherlands https://www.sensepublishers.com/

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All Rights Reserved © 2016 Sense Publishers No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work.

RER For Kerry Earl ee For Daniel Jansse 1933–1991 You would love your name in a book––here it is. AGQ This book is dedicated to my wife Marisol and my son Angel.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsix List of Figures

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1. Minding the Senses in Global South Ethnographies: Expanding Worldviews1 Robert E. Rinehart and elke emerald Section 1: Emerging Methods 2. Ethnography across Storytelling and the Senses D. Soyini Madison

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3. Humor Takes the Stage: A Performance of Couples’ Humor Wendy Talbot

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4. ‘Since Feeling Is First’: Poetry and Research Supervision Katie Fitzpatrick and Esther Fitzpatrick

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5. Environmental Art: A Creative Response to Economic Catastrophe John Dahlsen

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Section 2: Praxis: The Sensory in Lived Worlds 6. From Myth and Legend to Reality: Voyages of Rediscovery and Knowledge87 Hoturoa Barclay-Kerr 7. From Drunken-Sage to Artiste, the Many Lives of the Tibetan Dekar Harmony Siganporia 8. Mothers and Food: Performing the Family Mealtime Rachel Lamdin Hunter and Kahurangi Dey 9. Pehea ka ʻAha a kāua? How Is Our Rope? Ethnographic Practices from Behind, In Front of, and In the ʻAha Emalani Case

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Section 3: Transformations in Social Justice: Theoretically Embodied Visions 10. Place-Responsive Choreography and Activism Karen Barbour vii

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11. Spinning Wheel Very Pretty: Cybridity and the Cyborg Academic lisahunter 12. The Heartlines in Your Hand: Writing Autoethnography with Hélène Cixous and Virginia Woolf Elizabeth Mackinlay

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Section 4: The Sensual in Latin America: Writing in the Boundary between Spanish and English 13. Foreign and Yours: Writing in the Boundary between Spanish and English169 Antonio Garcia 14. My “Third World” in Three Words: Performative Writing from the Perspective of a Latin-American Woman Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda

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15. ‘Passing’—and ‘Failing’—in Latin America: Methodological Reflections on Linguacultural Identity Phiona Stanley

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Section 5: Autoethnographic Voices in the Global South 16. Who Is Eye? An Autoethnogr