Understanding Movement and Meaning in Janana Communities

IF 1.8 2区 文学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY
Ila Nagar
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Abstract

Janana is a word used to describe male presenting individuals who desire or have sex with men but who may also hold a heteronormatively masculine position within their communities. This article presents an interdisciplinary look at the janana body and explores movement as a way jananas form meaning alongside linguistic markers within their communities. I show that the rewards and risks associated with movement in the janana community indicate a relationship between movement and language in the social lives of jananas, which is tied to the politics of their presence in the communities they inhabit. While scholars have studied aspects of movement within various communities, work on the simultaneous rewards and risks associated with movement within communities like that of jananas is underrepresented. This article shows that jananas use gestures and body movement to carry meanings that challenge restrictions imposed on their bodies by culture while also surviving and living under such restrictions.

理解Janana社区的运动和意义
Janana这个词用来描述那些渴望或与男性发生性关系,但在他们的社区中也可能持有异性恋男性地位的男性。本文介绍了跨学科的janana身体和探索运动的方式janana形成意义与语言标记在他们的社区。我认为,在janana社区中,与运动相关的回报和风险表明,在janana的社会生活中,运动与语言之间存在着一种关系,这种关系与他们在所居住的社区中存在的政治有关。虽然学者们已经研究了不同社区内运动的各个方面,但对jananas等社区内运动同时带来的回报和风险的研究却没有得到充分的体现。这篇文章表明,jananas使用手势和身体运动来承载意义,挑战文化对他们身体的限制,同时也在这种限制下生存和生活。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Linguistic Anthropology explores the many ways in which language shapes social life. Published with the journal"s pages are articles on the anthropological study of language, including analysis of discourse, language in society, language and cognition, and language acquisition of socialization. The Journal of Linguistic Anthropology is published semiannually.
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