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Consuming Pork, Parading the Virgin and Crafting Origami in Tel Aviv: Filipina Care Workers’ Aesthetic Formations in Israel.
- Source :
- Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology; Jun2013, Vol. 78 Issue 2, p255-279, 25p, 5 Color Photographs
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- This article investigates the sensual participation of Filipina care workers in Israel, more specifically in the urban space of Tel Aviv. By creating a rich communal life, by parading icons of the Virgin Mary through the streets, and by crafting Origami paper swans that have conquered urban spaces in all sizes, shapes and colours, migrants have fashioned modes of aesthetic and sensual belonging in the city. Their popular aesthetics, I argue, is intricately linked to the ironic Americanisation of a post-colonial nation, as well as the gendered niche of care, which Filipinos in the global economy have come to occupy. Drawing on the concept of ‘aesthetic formation’, this article foregrounds the performative aspects and centrality of objects, appearances and the senses in migrants’ making of community. Filipinos’ aesthetic formations in diaspora speak of collective struggles as well as of the emergence of new subjectivities beyond ethnic or cultural identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CULTURAL identity
CULTURAL values
ASSIMILATION (Sociology)
EMIGRATION & immigration
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00141844
- Volume :
- 78
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 87736171
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2012.655302