... and contents of the ritual as well as on the participants and the socio-religious setting of Hook-swinging. But, second, it can be shown that within this transformation the ritual itself serves as a space of subaltern agency and resistance to colonial and social suppression within the colonial society...

...); a complementary cultural approach that has added attention to issues such as private life, public rituals, and subaltern agency; Afro-Brazilian life and culture; a surprisingly rich literature on the indigenous population; and studies of colonial governance. Mello e Souza Laura de Portugal economy family...

... Carnivalesque Neoliberalism Globalization Mimesis Dancehall music Subaltern agency Social death Police Paradigmatic substitution “Walk and live. Talk and bombo claut dead,” a line from the 1997 Jamaican dancehall movie Dancehall Queen, summarizes (with the expletive “bombo claut...