All welcome (tea, biscuits and wine provided!)
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
Friday 5 February, 4.30 pm
Embodied Ghosts of Phantom Lynchings: A 'hauntography' of El Alto's hanging puppets
Martyn Wemyss, LSE
This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://martynwemyss.eventbrite.co.uk
El Alto's markets and residential streets are marked by the phenomenon of puppets or mannequins - clothes stuffed with rags making a human shape and hanged by nooses from the lamp posts, often wearing a sign around their necks explaining their fate ('I am a thief'). These figures are frequently complimented by hand painted warnings such as 'the thief will be lynched and burned on this street'. These signs and messages interpellate anyone passing them into a kind of legal order and construct the street and neighbourhood as places of danger and latent violence. However, the people living there express a horror of violence, and no-one will admit to making or hanging the puppets or painting the signs.
This paper brings these phenomena together with other ethnographic materials collected across the Bolivian high plains, to situate them within wider legal and political imaginaries, and suggests an approach to law which incorporates geographical, temporal, material and mytho-poetic dimensions.
Location : Royal Anthropological Institute
50 Fitzroy Street
London
W1T 5BT
United Kingdom
http://www.therai.org.uk
Gemma Aellah
Royal Anthropological Institute
50 Fitzroy Street
London
W1T 5BT
Mobile 0745 0249 070
www.therai.org.uk
www.londonanthropologyday.co.uk
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