Description
This episode hosts two guests in a conversation about how dancing encompasses the elements of our changing worlds and allows us to act upon that world.
Hélène Neveu Kringelbach is an Associate Professor of African Anthropology at University College London. Her research has focused on the lives and works of dancers and musicians on migration and effective relationships by national and transnational families in Senegal and France. Kringelbach is author of Dance Circles: Movement Morality and Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal (2013).
Lesley Braun, Associate Researcher at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel and has worked among women concert dancers in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Braun's research explores dance, gender, transnational mobility in women's sexuality and trade in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She is author of Congo's Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa (2023).
Host: George Paul Meiu is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Basel.
Production: Ethnographic Imagination Basel:
Zainabu Jallo, Ann Karimi Kern (Ethnologisches Seminar Universität Basel)
in collaboration with the New Media Center
#dance #senegal #congo #DRC #ethnographicimaginationbasel #anthropology
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