Cabelos Como Extensões: Relações Protéticas, Materialidade E Agência Na Estética Funk Carioca
Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: By focusing on the bodily aesthetic produced to facilitate mobility in and out of different social spaces in Rio de Janeiro, it is argued that “the social life of objects” can only be considered if the quality of agency is reconciled with the possibility that objects may have their meaning manipulated. It is from this double possibility that we can speak of a causal network formed by humans and non-humans, both triggering events, but without losing their ontological status differentials. We argue, in light of Amerindian perspectivism and from a mimetic discussion, that subjects are empowered by objects and that appearance – more than interiority – is central to social interactions, as they happen in the Brazilian urban environment.
Author: Mylene Mizrahi
Institution: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1980163309