Katya Wesolowski
Lecturing Fellow of Cultural Anthropology
As an anthropologist and dancer, I am interested in the interrelationship between bodies, cultural practices, politics and ethnographic writing. My research explores expressive culture of the African Diaspora with a focus on Brazil and Angola. My monograph, Playing Capoeira: a memoir in motion (forthcoming, University Press of Florida) is an auto-ethnography of my thirty-year involvement as a practitioner and researcher of Afro-Brazilian capoeira. I have published in the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology and Latin American Perspectives and have forthcoming chapters in Capoeira and Globalization: Interdisciplinary Studies of an Afro-Brazilian Art Form (UPF), the Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies and the Oxford Handbook of Dance and Memory.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Lecturing Fellow of Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2017
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- Box 90019, Durham, NC 27708-0025
- Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
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kw87@duke.edu
(919) 660-7087
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