Raphaela von Weichs- Doctor of Philosophy
- Senior Researcher at University of Lausanne
Raphaela von Weichs
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Senior Researcher at University of Lausanne
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Introduction
Raphaela von Weichs currently works at the Institut de sciences sociales des religions contemporaines, University of Lausanne. As a Social and Cultural Anthropologist she is focusing on art, political activism, and religion, and also interested in the anthropology of healing. She is senior researcher of the ERC project 'ARTIVISM - Art and Activism. Creativity and Performance as Subversive Forms of Political Expression in Super-Diverse Cities'.
Her current research interest is in comics and cartoons as forms of political expression and communication in Africa and in transnational spaces.
She is using a variety of methods such as ethnography, graphic anthropology, audio-visual anthropology and field-crossing, a method developed by Monika Salzbrunn.
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Comment établir des convergences entre une diversité de pratiques et d’esthétiques portant sur l’étude des carnavals et des pratiques festives ? Quels parallèles, quelles différences et quelles analogies pouvons-nous établir sur de tels objets ? Pour réfléchir aux liens entre analyse de la pensée symbolique, les pratiques sociales et les études lit...
À Gênes, Italie, les ruines d’un ancien couvent ont été investies depuis six ans par un collectif dont certains individu·e·s ont des compétences et/ou un parcours d’artistes professionnels. À Yaoundé, Cameroun, des artistes de rue ont commencé à fédérer plusieurs disciplines artistiques (peinture murale, body painting, création de mode) afin d’occu...
This chapter deals with naming as an act of incorporation and accommodation of a person into society and in particular with spirit praise names as names of affection for a person.Raphaela von Weichs has examined how Bunyoro people in Uganda facilitated the integration of strangers by bestowing empaako ‘spirit’ names on them until this practice succ...
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La reproduction comme acte performatif. BD, arts de la rue et chars de carnaval
Comment la reproduction de bandes dessinées sur un mur, le collage de poèmes au coin d'une rue ou la transformation de caricatures en chars de carnaval transforment-ils les actes performatifs de création et de réception d'œuvres d'art?
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Music and Migration: Performative Ways of Facing Exclusion
Musique et Migration: Faire face à l'exclusion de manière performative
Musik und Migration: Performative Antworten auf Exklusionsprozesse
Musica et Migrazione: Rispondere a l'esclusione par la performatività
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Congress of the Swiss Ethnological Society, November...
A new form of translocal martyrdom was (re)invented in the context of African migration to Switzerland a decade ago: The ‘Pèlerinage aux Saintes et Saints d’Afrique’ at St. Maurice and the pilgrimage dedicated to the (Black) Virgin Mary in Einsiedeln. Under the patronage of the federal Catholic ‘Swiss Bishops Conference’ (SBC) several annual events...
Fanon, Senghor, and Ela took a radical stance in criticising the structures and mechanisms of power in hegemonic situations and relations between colonial subjects and colonial masters. They aimed to liberate African societies by decolonising the mind, culture and religion of colonial subjects. In this respect, we are concerned with the continuitie...
From the beginning, British colonial rule in East Africa encountered severe protests and manifold resistance. When the Uganda protectorate was established in 1894, almost everywhere local populations struggled against foreign domination, albeit with differing degrees of success. Resistance was most pronounced in the Kingdom of Bunyoro‐Kitara in the...
