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DESCRIPTION:Cherubim Quizon will give a Brown Bag Lunch presentation on Tue
 sday\, February 23\, at 12:15 pm. Her talk is entitled “Going Bananas: Mix
 ed Methods Research on Musa sp. and Other Unspun Fibers in Mindanao and Ok
 inawan Textiles.'While studies of Southeast Asian textiles rely on group i
 dentity markers as analytic and hermeneutic tools\, much can be learned fr
 om inquiry into practices that transcend group boundaries / traditions / c
 ommunities. This can be especially enlightening when focusing on cloth mad
 e of an unspun fiber that is prevalent in certain parts of the region but 
 not others. Cloth made with thread from the banana plant widely used in So
 utheast Asia\, the Pacific\, and Southern Japan has a much narrower co-occ
 urrence with ikat patterning techniques. It is an overlap only observed in
  the Ryukyu Islands and Mindanao\, where it is known as abaca ikat. What c
 ategories of information and methodologies can we draw on to better unders
 tand the significance of such material affinities? Using insights from fie
 ldwork among the Bagobo and other Indigenous groups producing abaca ikat a
 longside collections research\, this talk summarizes ethnographic\, museol
 ogical\, and linguistic information relevant to this confluence of materia
 l attributes and relates it to Okinawan kasuri. Implications for future re
 search will be presented\, assessing their usefulness in answering questio
 ns of anthropological\, art historical\, and ethnohistorical import when t
 heorizing hyperlocal as well as geographically and culturally discontinuou
 s phenomena.Cherubim Quizon is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Seto
 n Hall University. She studies the knowledge systems and social formations
  embedded in the textiles and dress of the Bagobo in the highlands of Mind
 anao using ethnography that critically engages with US colonial-era museum
  collections. She co-edited an influential centenary volume “World’s Fair 
 1904” (Philippine Studies\, Ateneo de Manila Press\, 2004) reframing the l
 iving display of Filipinos at St. Louis. She recast phenomenological persp
 ectives of Indigenous interlocutors in works that include contributions to
  the Fowler Museum’s Weavers’ Stories project (2010) and more recently in 
 “The Weaver’s House: Ethnography\, Translation\, and Video in the Highland
 s of Mindanao” in Visual Anthropology Review (2019). She explored the iron
 ies that arise when Indigenous semantic categories of cloth and dress coll
 ide with that of the state\, non-government organizations\, tourists\, ant
 hropologists\, and other outsiders in “Dressing the Lumad Body” (Humanitie
 s Diliman\, 2012) and “The Color Purple” (in Cosmopolitanism and Tourism\,
  edited by Robert Shepherd\, Lexington Press\, 2017)\, among others. She i
 s collaborating on a praxis-based assessment of a landmark law governing I
 ndigenous peoples in the Philippines (https://ipra-ph.org/).This event wil
 l be live with automatic captions.This event will be held via Zoom. A link
  will be circulated to registrants by 10 am on the day of the event.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Going Bananas
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