Body Knowledge, Part I
Dance, Anthropology, and the Erasure of History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5306162 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Isaiah Lorado Wilner (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 111-142 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jhi.2022.0005 |
| PMID | 35185026 |
| OpenAlex | W4213170088 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
A photograph depicts the anthropologist Franz Boas posing as an Indigenous youth in search of human flesh. It looks like an icon of cultural appropriation, but behind the picture is a history of Indigenous influence. The archive of body knowledge-memories encapsulated in the motions of dance and indexed in images-reveals that the Kwak'wala-speaking peoples civilized the white man who came to study them, converting him to the Host-Guest logic of "potlatch" encoded in their Hamatsa dance. Seeing Boas as a host body of Indigenous knowledge radically reconfigures our understanding of influence, compelling us to ask who creates modernity
Aesthetics · Appropriation · Art · Biology · Dance · Epistemology · Erasure · Icon · Indigenous · Modernity · Sociology · Visual arts · White (mutation · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Ecology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |