Illinois State University ISU ReD: Research and eData Theses and Dissertations 10-6-2020 Dance And Know You Are A Part: The Instrumentality Of Performative Politics And Dance In The Configuration Of Local Social Memory And Afro-Brazilian Identity And Agency In Pelotas, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil Triston R. Brown Illinois State University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/etd Part of the Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons Recommended Citation Brown, Triston R., "Dance And Know You Are A Part: The Instrumentality Of Performative Politics And Dance In The Configuration Of Local Social Memory And Afro-Brazilian Identity And Agency In Pelotas, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil" (2020). Theses and Dissertations. 1329. https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/etd/1329 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by ISU ReD: Research and eData. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ISU ReD: Research and eData. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. DANCE AND KNOW YOU ARE A PART: THE INSTRUMENTALITY OF PERFORMATIVE POLITICS AND DANCE IN THE CONFIGURATION OF LOCAL SOCIAL MEMORY AND AFRO-BRAZILIAN IDENTITY AND AGENCY IN PELOTAS, RIO GRANDE DO SUL, BRAZIL TRISTON R. BROWN 123 Pages The arts have been a refuge from perpetual repression and omission, and, a platform for social activism for Afro-descendants in the Americas. In Brazil this is very much the case. With performance serving as a social barometer or a looking glass, dance becomes a source of cultural knowledge, acts as preservative, and tool for negotiating collective and individual mobility within a given context.