Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Victor Cova - Anthropology, Aarhus University, Denmark
| Dates: | 8 October 2018 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| Speaker: | Dr Victor Cova |
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Social Anthropology Seminar
Monday, 8th of October 2018
Dr Victor Sacha Cova
Anthropology Aarhus University Denmark
Nicole, Queen of Macas
This talk locates the trajectory of Wilo/Nicola Shacay, an indigenous transgender activist, among transformations of economic and political life at the settler colonial frontier in the Ecuadorian Amazon over the past 40 years. Coming from a traditional Shuar family, Wilo is now a beauty advisor for beauty pageants and the organiser of sexual rights workshops, LGBT beauty pageants, and was for a time the leader of an LGBT performance group. The talk focuses particularly on the effects of wage-labour on sex and gender and interprets Wilo's activism as primarily oriented toward improving the working conditions of LGBT people in the Morona Santiago Province. As a result this talk critically revisits the literature on the performance of gender from the perspective of Queer Marxism and Amazonian ethnography.
Second Floor Boardroom 2.016 / 017
Arthur Lewis Building
Time 4:15 to 6:00pm
(Tea and coffee available outside the room from 4:00pm)
ALL WELCOME!
Speaker
Dr Victor Cova
Role: speaker
Organisation: Aarhus University Denmark
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2.016 / 017 (Boardroom)
Arthur Lewis Building
Manchester
