Shaheed Tayob: Race, Animals & Religion: Sacrifice, Sensory Politics & Public Space in South Africa
Mar 2024
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Seminar presentation by Dr. Shaheed Tayob, Lecturer of Anthropology at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Title: Race, Animals & Religion: A Case of Sacrifice, Sensory Politics & Public Space in South Africa Abstract: In South Africa, the new constitution was designed to accommodate all of South Africa’s religious traditions. The result is a novel configuration wherein religion is articulated with race and public space by private actors rather than through coherent state policy. This talk introduces two cases of public sacrifice in South Africa. In the first, the presence of animal bodies led to a racially charged debate over......