Hello everyone,
I hope that some of you might like to comment on the performance readings, especially as they lie at the intersection of your fieldwork. How are your informants “performing” their identity or identities? Do you see more than one identity at work? Does identity shift from event to event, context to context? These are fascinating questions that explore one of the big anthropology questions having to do with the “self,” and whether or not there is such a thing as an “essential” self. What do you think based on your data so far?