Spiderwomen: sketches

Reading Kaplana Ram:

gendered pattern to the distribution of possession - what does it say about conditioning, training and performance of gender in a particular cultural context

Latent potentialities and vulnerabilities & motility (Fanon: muscular dreams, dance circle, discovery and transformation of the colonized reality/subjectivity in praxis)

After Janice Boddy: what or whose interests does possession serve?

What are representations of emotions - internal or external to the subject? Who is the subject and how do they become one?

Affliction attacks in an through the individual's relational connection with the world she lives in (209) - de Martino "crisis of presence" (revisit the concept) - Vogman/Fanon geosomatic consciousness

Mediumship, divine bond, expansion of agency (212): certain forms of affliction/possession experienced by women from underprivileged social groups, what is enabled in possession, what limitations are expressed and/or reinforced and/or transcended?

Culturally sanctioned codes of touch, movement and bodily expression in construction and reproduction of gender - what a woman is not allowed to do, to think, to desire

The movements adopted in possession have the capacity to actually alter fundamental orientations to the world. Childhood movements, rocking, swinging, are invested with new meanings, taken out of context, and singled out for repetition (219) - de Martino "aiora" swing and rope, coitus, marriage, suicide by hanging ("Swinging Women" and myth of Erigone)

tbc

manual treatment of an image - what does it do -> iconolatry and adoration, laying someone to sleep, treating the body before the funeral, remembering, elevating

mashing up elements of original photos, changing relations, retelling the story as a form of shared learning process? there is no "right" version of it, no one to authorize (or?) but many to converse with

​what are the boundaries of artification - how to not only beautify but shift meaning (towards something that feels..how? according to de Martino one should seek restoration of presence, but is it more about existential release/relief, about being seen - but how? as who?)

-> looking for more techniques and ethnography-re-writing methodologies