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Phone (401) 386-2809
Price Free
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Category Talks & Lectures

Manuela Picq ─ Cosmopolitan Amazons: Disentangling Modernity from the State

Tuesday, Nov 4 12:00p

How did indigenous peoples come to participate in a parade for gay rights in a place called Benjamin Constant deep in the Amazon? What may appear as anecdotal raises less trivial questions. It is unexpected to find sociocultural modernity in a region epitomizing a wild, isolated, and apolitical nature. How are we to reconcile prevailing understandings of an Amazon detached from political modernity with its cosmopolitan LGBT scene?

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