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Infectious rhythm : metaphors of contagion and the spread of African culture /
Barbara Browning follows the trail of ""infectious rhythm"" from the ecstatic percussion of a Brazilian carnival group to the eerily silent video image of the LAPD beating a man like a drum. Throughout, she identifies the metaphoric strain of contagion which both celebrates the d...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
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- Babaluaiye: Diaspora as pandemic
- Compact world
- Lutte contre les moustiques: The question of irony
- African medicine men
- Voodoo economics
- Mixing bloods: The L.A. riots
- Cyberspace, voodo sex, and retroviral identity
- Benetton: Blood is big business
- Penetrable selves ("Paris is burning")
- The closed body.