Category: body language

Exorcising Exorcism

17 April 2023
body languagechild, children, childhood,familyviolence
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On January 17, 2020, the BBC reported on an exorcism in Panama: They were performing a ritual inside the structure. In that ritual, there were people being held against their will, being mistreated. All of these rites were aimed at killing them if they didn’t repent their sins. Inside the makeshift church, officers found a…

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Scouting the Horizon

8 October 2020
body languagefuturelandritual, festivalspace, territory
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I’m always scouting. I have a propensity to watch the horizon. What is it you do when you “scout?” It’s hard to shake grade-B cowboy movies out of my imagination. Scouts rode ahead, over horizons, then back to the wagon train—usually with bad news unless San Francisco was just over the mountain. White Cavalry Scout…

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Reading Gestures

14 September 2019
body languagegesture, postureideologypoliticsposture

From left, Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. raise their hands to answer a question Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, during a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by ABC at Texas Southern University in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) If you read gestures, as ritual…

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