Special lecture Monday: Sex and violence

Posted by Lance Gravlee on October 26, 2008 
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On Monday, October 27, Professor Neil Whitehead of the University of Wisconsin will deliver the 2008 of the Marvin Harris Lecture. The title of the presentation is “Blood Jewel: A Performative Ethnography of Sex and Violence.”

This special event will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Weil 270. Here’s the abstract:

This talk will discuss recent performative ethnographic work in the Goth/Industrial music scene as the band “Blood Jewel” and how through the medium of cyber space this has led to different kinds of engagements with ethnographic “subjects”. The cultural meanings of sexual and violent representation, challenges to normative sexualities, and the emergence of digital subjectivities and ontologies are then examined in relation to the emergence of a post-human anthropology.

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