Displacing disease: a performative account

Sarah Pini

Displacing disease: a performative account

Sarah Pini

Department of Anthropology

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Abstract

Displacing suggests moving from a certain place, generally considered as usual, and familiar, to an elsewhere that is perceived as alien, different, unknown. What is it that becomes displaced in someone’s life after receiving a cancer diagnosis? When the body suddenly becomes uninhabitable, where does the exiled occupier of this body go? Through auto-ethnographic analysis and the images collected over ten years of oncological treatments and dance performances, this video essay displays how processes of healing can be set in motion by practices of displacement, physical explorations and unexpected journeys.

Video essay: 9 minutes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Displacements
Subtitle of host publication	conference panels
Publisher	Society for Cultural Anthropology
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	DISPLACEMENTS 2018 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Cultural Anthropology - Duration: 19 Apr 2018 → 21 Apr 2018 https://displacements.jhu.edu/

Conference

Conference	DISPLACEMENTS 2018 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Cultural Anthropology
Period	19/04/18 → 21/04/18
Internet address	https://displacements.jhu.edu/

Keywords

Healing
Dance
Performativity
autoethnography
illness experience
illness narrative
Visual anthropology

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