Decolonising human exhibits: dance, re-enactment and historical fiction
Decolonising human exhibits: dance, re-enactment and historical fiction
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去殖民化的人类展览：舞蹈、重演和历史小说
作者：
P. Purkayastha
摘要本文主要探讨非殖民化的展览实践和殖民档案。它开始于对19世纪殖民地展览和世界博览会作为一种文化实践的文献调查，以及人类学和民族学等学科在促进暴力形式的教育学方面的共谋。接下来，本文探讨了失败的自由的1885年在伦敦的展览，特别是分析nautch舞者的移动身体都从事和破坏scopophilia框架等活的人类展品。在最后一节中，本文探讨了如何通过体现档案滑动重新想象自由的nautch经验可能是一个有用的无政府状态的方式挖掘那些被英国和印度民族主义历史遗忘的舞者的记忆。本文阐述了结构的局限性重演，在当代欧美舞蹈的当前趋势，它认为，历史小说作为一种corpendous方法可能是一个可行的非殖民化的策略，舞蹈研究。
ABSTRACT This article focuses on decolonising exhibition practices and colonial archives. It begins with a survey of literature on nineteenth-century colonial exhibitions and world’s fairs as a cultural practice and the complicity of academic disciplines such as anthropology and ethnology in promoting violent forms of pedagogy. Next, the article examines the failed Liberty’s 1885 exhibition in London, specifically analyzing the nautch dancers whose moving bodies both engaged and disrupted the scopophilia framing such live human exhibits. In the final section, the article examines how re-imagining the Liberty’s nautch experiences by embodying archival slippages might be a usefully anarchic way of exhuming the memories of those dancers forgotten by both British and Indian nationalist history. The article delineates the structural limitations of reenactments, a current trend in contemporary Euro-American dance, and it argues that historical fiction as a corporeal methodology might be a viable decolonising strategy for dance studies.