Apologies. This event is on Friday 24th April.
Kind regards
Gemma
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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From: Gemma Aellah
Sent: 20 April 2015 16:19
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Subject: RAI Research in Progress seminar this Friday on the Masks of the Wauja and the Timbira
Hi Everyone,
All very welcome to the first in our summer term of the Research In Progress Seminar series at the Royal Anthropological Institute. Come along to support and dicuss Fabiola's work (see below)
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE: 50 Fitzroy Street, London, W1T 5BT.
Friday 24th March, 4.30 pm
Title: The Masks of the Wauja and the Timbira Indians: towards a theory of aesthetic performances in indigenous Amazonia.
Speaker: Fabiola Luvaro, Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania & the Americas, University of East Anglia
This event is free, but booking is advised. To book please go to: http://fabiolaluvaro.eventbrite.co.uk
Abstract: My current Ph.D. research concentrates on the comparisons of the Museum Collections of the masks created by the Wauja and Timbira Indians of Central Brazil that are currently housed in different Institutions across the world. As part of my Ph.D., I will conduct a comparative study of the materials used to make these masks and their stylistic similarities and differences as a means of exploring the social and religious relationships that exist between and among the communities that make and dance them. My research focuses on the performance of material culture in indigenous Amazonia. When understood as the study of various relationships between persons and things, material culture studies can include an examination of human-non-human relationships involved in Masks performances practices. In the specific case of the Amazonian people, the fabrication of certain ritual objects (such as masks) is frequently viewed as a means of materializing supernatural subjectivities. The Mask Festivals are understood as a ritual-performative complex that allows humans to interact with spirits which are considered to be both dangerous and creative forces governing the fertility of nature. The study of the Mask Rituals involves important issues of native cosmology, shamanism and iconography. My research demonstrates how traditionally repeated dramatic festival roles during the Timbira and Wauja Mask festivals (dancing singing and wearing the body sized masks) are designed to bring the performers into contact with the 'spirits world' to give musical and visual expression to the powerful spirits and in this way to engage them in ritual operations in favor of the collectivity.
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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