Abstract
ABSTRACT This article explores how certain tools of Butoh and related techniques can become useful devices to sentipensar (think-feel) problematics addressed by anthropology. It first highlights how attention to corporeality and the presence of researchers and learning communities questions logocentric parameters of knowledge production and transmission. Then, based on experiences in teaching, performance and learning, we propose a few Butoh-inspired training devices that can be deployed to further explore topics related to notions of personhood, agency, time, memory, nature-culture and post-humanism, among others.
Highlights
I present certain dialogues between elements of Butoh and other related techniques1and some anthropologies, exploring how the tools of specific performance techniques can be used as useful devices to sentipensar2 issues of anthropology and other social and human sciences
I explore various anthropological problems that Butoh and other similar performance arts can bring to the stage and I propose a few specific training-devices that we can traverse as researchers and learning communities to delve into ways of knowing that are attentive to our own corporealities and those of others (Csordas, 2011)
I would emphasize the potential of Butoh and other related arts and techniques to move towards modes of generating and transmitting anthropological knowledge that underline the embodied condition of our anthropological, humanistic, posthumanistic, and scientific imaginations in general
Summary
Lucrecia Raquel GrecoI,II IUniversidade Federal da Bahia – UFBA, Salvador/BA, Brazil IIUniversidad de Buenos Aires – UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina. ABSTRACT – Irreverent Movements: Butoh tools for anthropological teaching and research – This article explores how certain tools of Butoh and related techniques can become useful devices to sentipensar (think-feel) problematics addressed by anthropology. Based on experiences in teaching, performance and learning, we propose a few Butoh-inspired training devices that can be deployed to further explore topics related to notions of personhood, agency, time, memory, nature-culture and post-humanism, among others. A partir de experiencias en docencia, performance y aprendizaje, se proponen algunos dispositivos-entrenamientos inspirados en el Butoh que pueden desplegarse para profundizar en tópicos relacionados a nociones de persona, agencia, tiempo, memoria, naturalezacultura y poshumanismo, entre otros. Lucrecia Raquel Greco – Irreverent Movements: Butoh tools for anthropological teaching and research.
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