Performando Orientalismos: do Harém à Primavera Árabe

Authors

  • Paulo Raposo Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2013.82468

Keywords:

Performance, Historical Re-enactment, Orientalisms, Colonialisms and Post-Colonialisms, Belly Dance, Music.

Abstract

The aim of this text is to analyze how the narrative self-portraits and representations of Arab culture protrude in certain performative events: historical re-enactment Christian oriented in the Western world, in particular in Portugal and Spain. These images will be observed also in the creation of spaces and projects dedicated mainly to performances, dance and music with Arab or Oriental focus. We seek to clarify how configuration modes of this Other world are made through performative forms of expression that emerge as nostalgic exercises or objectifications of the past of the old Christian Europe. They might be better understood as reperformances. The text is supported in ethnographic research with several performers, in various events of historical re-creation, and in spaces and projects dedicated to arab supposedly traditional performative styles.

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Published

2013-12-12

Issue

Vol. 56 No. 2 (2013)

Section

Special Number: Anthropology and Performance

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How to Cite

Raposo, P. (2013). Performando Orientalismos: do Harém à Primavera Árabe. Revista De Antropologia, 56(2), 213-256. https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2013.82468