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Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Victor Cova - Anthropology, Aarhus University, Denmark

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Dates:8 October 2018
Times:16:00 - 18:00
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:School of Social Sciences
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)

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Dr Victor Cova

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Organisation: Aarhus University Denmark

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