All welcome for the last Royal Anthropological Institute's Research in Progress of the academic year, tomorrow at 4.30pm to 6pm at the RAI office (address below) Tea, coffee, biscuits, wine and rap provided.
Friday 17 June 2016, 4.30pm
Thinking with Rap: Thinking, Anthropocene, Racism
Emilio G. Berrocal
This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://emiliogberrocal.eventbrite.co.uk
The ultimate objective of The Falling Sky, the book containing the words of Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa, typed and edited by French anthropologist Bruce Albert, is to turn "white people" into Yanomami. According to Kopenawa, only by having white people educated in the words of Omama, the demiurge for the Yanomami, can we prevent the sky from falling. Yet how is that possible? How can white people, that is people of writing, become Yanomami, people of orality, if the invitation to convert, so to say, is only accessible by reading a book? This paper proposes considering such a question along with another one, which apparently has nothing to do with the former: How can hip-hop be the "continuation of local traditions"? This is how some hip-hop scholars see the astonishing development of local hip-hop scenes outside the US. The paper will show that these two questions converge in highlighting the same confrontation taking place between two forms of knowing: one, face-to-face; the other, surface-to-face. In demonstrating this, the paper will also confront with: 1) What it means to think; 2) Why the term "anthropocene" remains the best candidate for describing the current climatic situation.
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Gemma Aellah
Research Officer and Secretary of the Forensic Anthropology Committee.
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