Sarah Shamash
Biographic Data
| ID | 4182145 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Shamash |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Shamash |
| SIGNATURE | SHAMASH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7073-9383 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Sovereign Bodies: From Turtle Island to Abya Yala
Women’s bodies, spirits and struggles all intermingle, as underscored in a comparative, and intersectional analysis of a Brazilian and Canadian film. I put into dialogue the film Teko Haxy, Being Imperfect (2018) with the film The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019). I investigate what these films communicate about their worlds; what alternative lifeways they propose; how these diverse women’s struggles interlink across ethnicities, c…
Utopic Cannibalism in Carlos Fausto, Leonardo Sette, and Takumã Kuikuro’s As Hiper Mulheres
Shamash’s chapter studies indigenous film productions in Brazil, particularly a documentary that portrays an all-women festival of the Kuikuro tribe, raising issues of cultural and environmental preservation. Shamash meditates on the utopian potential of the film medium as a performance of self-determination while tracing a genealogy of the decolonization of film history from Latin American Third Cinema to an international Indigenous Fourth Cinem…
Hexsa'am: To Be Here Always - Gallery as Big House
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Hexsa'am: To Be Here Always - Gallery as Big House
Utopic Cannibalism in Carlos Fausto, Leonardo Sette, and Takumã Kuikuro’s As Hiper Mulheres
Shamash’s chapter studies indigenous film productions in Brazil, particularly a documentary that portrays an all-women festival of the Kuikuro tribe, raising issues of cultural and environmental preservation. Shamash meditates on the utopian potential of the film medium as a performance of self-determination while tracing a genealogy of the decolonization of film history from Latin American Third Cinema to an international Indigenous Fourth Cinem…
Sovereign Bodies: From Turtle Island to Abya Yala
Women’s bodies, spirits and struggles all intermingle, as underscored in a comparative, and intersectional analysis of a Brazilian and Canadian film. I put into dialogue the film Teko Haxy, Being Imperfect (2018) with the film The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019). I investigate what these films communicate about their worlds; what alternative lifeways they propose; how these diverse women’s struggles interlink across ethnicities, c…
History (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Indigenous (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Art History and Market Analysis (1 works) · Arts and Performance Studies (1 works)