Shifting Transversals
Trans Women's Move from Spirit Mediumship to Beauty Work in Mandalay
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2142802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | W Keeler (0000-0003-1214-8435, The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 792-820 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-1844 • E-ISSN: 1469-588X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00141844.2014.992930 |
| OpenAlex | W1987847356 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 29 |
Long active as spirit mediums, trans women have become increasingly important players in the beauty business in Mandalay, Burma, as elsewhere in Southeast Asia. I ask what affinities we might discern in these two roles of spirit medium and beautician such that trans women should be thought especially suited to take them on. The boundary-crossing implicit in both turns on self-fashioning, a process which connects humans to spirits and/or ordinary individuals to the prestigiously modern
Aesthetics · Affinities · Art · Beauty · Biology · Ethnology · Sociology · Southeast asia · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
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Making spirits, making art, Nat carving and contemporary painting in pre-transition Myanmar (Burma)
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Enjeux de terminologie autour de la ' loi des personnes transgenres ' (2019) en Inde
Purity and Danger
Modernity and its malcontents
Magic and Modernity
Distinction
Javanese Shadow Plays, Javanese Selves
Solo in the New Order
Gender Pluralism
Meaning and Power in a Southeast Asian Realm
History, Culture, and Region in Southeast Asian Perspectives
Gender Trouble
Male cross-gender behavior in Myanmar (Burma)
Burmese Supernaturalism
Purity and Danger
The Thai Regime of Images
Categorizing Gender in Queer Yangon
A Coincidence of Desires
The Illusion of Wholeness
Survival Through Pluralism
The Ritual Process
Vectors of Witchcraft
Shame and Stage Fright in Java
Genders and Sexualities in Modern Thailand
Power and Intimacy in the Christian Philippines
Transgenderism and Gender Pluralism in Southeast Asia since Early Modern Times
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,78 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |