ALEXIS LIGON HOLLOWAY

Please join the Anthropology and Sociology Department in welcoming our alum, Alexis L. Holloway, a PhD candidate at Duke University.REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED.The Anthropology of Performance: Race, Embodiment, and Power.How have anthropologists written about the performing body? Who has been highlighted, and who has been obscured, through systems of power that dictate visibility and invisibility? In this presentation, Alexis will focus on the performing Black body via Black classical instrumentalists.