Reviews for Performing Dreams: DisCourses of Immortality Among the Xavante of Central Brazil

The average rating for Performing Dreams: DisCourses of Immortality Among the Xavante of Central Brazil based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-04-29 00:00:00 John Webb Informative and painstakingly well researched, Performing Dreams illustrates the complexity of human performance by vividly explaining the cultural significance of dance, song, iconography, and language. A slow read, but enlightening.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-07-07 00:00:00 Trevor Bates Wow, let's talk about this book. Huge implications here for the direction of Queer Theory - away from the debate about "acts" versus "identity' into a discussion of ethics. Through a careful, close re-reading of the iconic passage from Foucault's Sexuality I - Huffer shows how the founders of queer theory in the US got the meaning of this passage wrong... and through taking up Foucault's largely ignored earlier book Madness and Civilizations sets us on another path. As someone who has been interested in a queer ethics - this book rocked my world. Huffer outlines a "political ethic of eros" by looking at a Nietszche-Foucault genealogy, rather than the more common Freud-Foucault pair that queer theory has traditionally loved. Wow - Wow - Wow. Huffer is clearing the way for some very new, inspiring work to be done in queer theory. Can't wait!