"I'll go with you": Desires and dynamics of the maternal in Punu singing and dancing (Congo-Brazaville).

Id:KUL_3H070047

K.U.Leuven

This PhD-thesis, bordering anthropology, gender- and performancestudies, approaches the singing and dancing of the Punu people as bodily shared, affect-loaden and auto-propulsing events that through a collective performance give way to a regeneration of self and life-world. A multiple approach, phenomenological, praxiological and matrixial, sheds light on these practices from different angles.According to the phenomenological perspective of Merleau-Ponty, the song- and dance-events are put to the fore as they are very concretely and bodily lived through. The encountering with the co-dancer, the emergence of movements and sounds in this encountering and the sensingof it as well as the undulating movement of inspiration and its affective modulations are explored. The praxiological, bodily centred approach of Devisch further enables us, through a socio-cultural contextualisation of the different song- and dance-practices, to highlight their regenerative power as they weave body, group and

Timeframe:

1 Oct 2006 → 1 Oct 2010

Keywords:

Congo-Brazaville Singing and dancing

Discipline codes:

• SOCIAL SCIENCES (S)
  • Sociology
    • Cultural anthropology, ethnology

Classifications:

• Ph. D.