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Katya Wesolowski

Katya Wesolowski

Lecturing Fellow in the Department of Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
kw87@duke.edu
Box 90019, Durham, NC 27708-0025
Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Book sections

Baile Funk and Kuduro: Embodied (Dis)Articulations of National Belonging in Brazil and Angola

Book section · January 9, 2026 The Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies features forty-two chapters of original scholarship that cultivate an awareness of dizzying abundance in Black dance practice. ... Link to item Cite

Playing with the Past: Embodied Memory in Afro-Brazilian Capoeira

Book section · January 1, 2026 In this chapter, Katya Wesolowski analyses capoeira, a Brazilian combat game with African roots recognised by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage, as a vessel of historical and cultural memory—preserving the legacy of enslaved ancestors but also Afro-Br ... Full text Cite