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Performance, Colonialism, and Survivals

Aby Warburg and the Matachines Dance in the US Southwestern Territories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2022

Stephanie Vella
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German art historian Aby Warburg’s 1895–1896 trip through the southwestern US reexamined in the context of late 19th‐century colonialism interjects the ethical stakes of displacement and replacement into one of Warburg’s key theoretical terms, “survival.” Working through how power differentials in colonialism shape the way images and affects survive in performance, an unremarked‐upon Matachines dance is reinstated in this travel narrative.

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TDR , Volume 66 , Issue 1 , March 2022 , pp. 80 - 101
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© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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