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Narrative reconstruction of the self: Living funerals as rituals of trauma and transformation

open access: yesThe Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Living funerals mark a radical reconfiguration of contemporary engagements with mortality, transforming death from an imposed ending into an actively authored narrative. This study examines the practice in Hong Kong's hybrid sociocultural landscape, where traditional Chinese death rituals collide with neoliberal selfhood and globalised ...
Yuen‐Ki Tang
wiley   +1 more source

• Underpinnings • Status

open access: yes, 2004
• Consider a dance with more than one dancer. • Each dancer has a set of steps that they will perform. They orchestrate their own steps because they are in complete control of their domain (their body). • A choreographer ensures that the steps all of the
Orchestration Vs Choreography   +2 more
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Embodied ethnographies: Entanglements in the Anthropocene

open access: yesThe Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract ‘Entanglements in the Anthropocene’ is an embodied exploration of the intersections of place, dance and lens‐based practices (photography and video). Lens‐based works discussed here result from collaborative research projects and grow from a shared curiosity about aesthetics in the Anthropocene and how to express entangled relationships with ...
Karen N. Barbour, Rodrigo Hill
wiley   +1 more source

Energetic microdomains and the vascular control of neuronal and muscle excitability: Toward a unified model

open access: yesThe Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract figure legend The capillary–mitochondria–ion channel (CMIC) axis scales structural resources to match functional workload. (Left) In settings of restricted energetic capacity (e.g. cortical neurons), sparse capillary networks and modest mitochondrial pools set a lower energetic ceiling, sufficient to support phasic, low‐workload excitability. (
L. Fernando Santana, Scott Earley
wiley   +1 more source

What Choreography is or might be in the Post-Digital Era? A Study on the Kinaesthetic Expressions of Digital Performance

open access: yesBody, Space & Technology Journal
 The purpose of this article is to analyse how the concept of choreography developed in the post-digital era. The modern term choreography indicates the making process of a 'relational performance architecture' consisting of the hybridisation of ...
Letizia Gioia Monda
doaj   +2 more sources

Under this weight: embodiment in dance choreography

open access: yes, 2019
In this chapter I place embodiment and the corporeal body as central to examination. I argue that the physical body is shaped by social and cultural practices.
Pickard, A.
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The keys to the garden: Capital, class, and the repurposing of Persian mystical poetry in Los Angeles

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.
Abstract This article traces the social life of medieval Persian poetry as it is repurposed within Los Angeles's Iranian diaspora. Based on 5 years of immersive ethnography in private erfān classes and mystical assemblies, I argue these gatherings function as contemporary diasporic courts, mobilizing core texts within a spiritual marketplace structured
Zia Khoshsirat
wiley   +1 more source

Some Notes on La Faiseuse D'anges (A Fazedora De Anjos, 1908), by Pedro Weingärtner

open access: yesFuture Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 2, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Pedro Weingärtner's La Faiseuse d'Anges (A Fazedora de Anjos, 1908) stands as one of the most unsettling artefacts of Brazilian academic painting. Conceived in Rome but rooted in the Parisian fait divers of the ‘angel‐maker,’ it translates a sensational story of reproductive crime into a monumental moral tableau.
Gustavo Ruiz da Silva
wiley   +1 more source

#6 [Title?] - choreography by David Dorfman, October 22, 1993

open access: yes, 1993
Sharir Dance Company, 10-21-93; David Dorfman, 10-22-93. Choreography: Jose Luis Bustamante (#1), Yacov Sharir (#2), Doug Varone (#3), David Dorfman (#4, 5, 6). Dance Company: Sharir Dance Company and David Dorfman. Dancers: Yacov Sharir, Lynn Grossman (#
David Dorfman Dance   +5 more
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