BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Anthropology Department welcomes Ellen Hebden to deliver he r lecture titled\, "The Promise of Feminine Beauty: Dancing\, Dress\, and Gendered Pursuits of Mobility in Mozambique."Tufo\, a popular performance genre in Mozambique\, is often referred to as the dance of the beautiful w omen (athiana orera)\, as dancers embody idealized feminine beauty norms t hrough body movements\, material adornment and vocal timbre. In recent dec ades\, competitive dance associations that perform tufo have been growing in popularity and expanding into new contexts and regions. This talk appro aches feminine beauty as one lens through which to examine tufo's growth.I n Mozambique—as in elsewhere around the world—beauty has become a valuable commodity and a form of "affective capital" (Jarrín 2017) that can have r eal upward effects on people's social and economic standing. Drawing on et hnographic and interview data collected during 21 months of performance-ba sed research with tufo groups in north-central Mozambique\, I analyze how both men and women participants perform feminine beauty ideals on stage ev ents for strategic ends\, cultivating joy\, and animating audiences throug h aesthetic choices for material and social effects.Amidst the backdrop of Mozambique's growing political and economic uncertainty\, I argue that "t he promise of beauty" (Nguyen 2024) is the opportunity for participants to access critical forms of mobility that they would otherwise be excluded f rom\, and is a primary driver in the continued expansion of the genre.Elle n Hebden is a Carole &\; Alvin I. Schragis Faculty Fellow and an assist ant professor of art and music histories in the College of Arts and Scienc es. DTEND:20250226T173000Z DTSTAMP:20260512T170854Z DTSTART:20250226T160000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Promise of Feminine Beauty: Dancing\, Dress\, and Gendered Purs uits of Mobility in Mozambique UID:RFCALITEM639141881341773564 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Anthropology Department welcomes Ellen Hebden to deliver her lecture titled\, "The Promise of Feminine Beauty: Da ncing\, Dress\, and Gendered Pursuits of Mobility in Mozambique."

Tu fo\, a popular performance genre in Mozambique\, is often referred to as t he dance of the beautiful women (athiana orera)\, as dancers embody ideali zed feminine beauty norms through body movements\, material adornment and vocal timbre. In recent decades\, competitive dance associations that perf orm tufo have been growing in popularity and expanding into new c ontexts and regions. This talk approaches feminine beauty as one lens thro ugh which to examine tufo's growth.

In Mozambique—as in elsewhere ar ound the world—beauty has become a valuable commodity and a form of "affec tive capital" (Jarrín 2017) that can have real upward effects on people's social and economic standing. Drawing on ethnographic and interview data c ollected during 21 months of performance-based research with tufo groups i n north-central Mozambique\, I analyze how both men and women participants perform feminine beauty ideals on stage events for strategic ends\, culti vating joy\, and animating audiences through aesthetic choices for materia l and social effects.

Amidst the backdrop of Mozambique's growing po litical and economic uncertainty\, I argue that "the promise of beauty" (N guyen 2024) is the opportunity for participants to access critical forms o f mobility that they would otherwise be excluded from\, and is a primary d river in the continued expansion of the genre.

Ellen Hebden is a Car ole &\; Alvin I. Schragis Faculty Fellow and an assistant professor of art and music histories in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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