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Neste ensaio eu analiso as políticas articuladas a duas práticas corporais observadas por grande parte dos homens rastafari jamaicanos: o cultivo de dreadlocks e barbas. Começo pela história política dos dreadlocks e barbas, mostrando como eles foram conectados a noções de africanismo e à vida social dos textos bíblicos no Movimento Rastafari. Eu argumento que estes modos de cuidado com o corpo traduzem políticas anticoloniais rastafari que visam desafiar e criticar estéticas e modos de existência coloniais e pós-coloniais na ilha caribenha, o que dá ensejo a reflexões sobre pertencimento, soberania e africanidade diaspórica. ; In this essay, I unpack the politics intertwined with two bodily practices observed by many Rastafarian men in Jamaica: the sporting of dreadlocks and beards. I begin with the political history of the dreadlocks and beards in Jamaica, showing how they became connected to notions of Africanism and the social life of biblical texts in the Rastafarian Movement. I argue that these techniques of caring for the body translate Rastafarian anti-colonial politics that challenge and criticize colonial and postcolonial aesthetics and modes of existence on the Caribbean island, which gives rise to reflections on belonging, sovereignty, and diasporic Africanity.

Abstract A central conceit to Michael Taussig's writing, as approached herein, lies in its removal of the preposition conventionally deployed to describe ethnography, history, and other modes of "non-fictional" writing: writing about reality. What could such writing be like if it is no longer written "about" that which it purports to describe or narrate but rubbing right up against its still-unresolved materiality? Beginning at "Unpacking My Library" - a title Taussig takes from Walter Benjamin - and detouring through Fred Moten's Black Afro-Diasporic figuration of the "not-in-between," we investigate how such approaches to the "language of things" relate to writing ethnography. Exploring how Taussig's writing works, in part by approaching certain artistic/cultural/cosmo-political practices as "mimetic allies," we similarly touch upon the African-Diasporic traditions with which our own writings engage. Throughout, we flesh out how history - and Black history - figure as interruptive forces both in and beyond Taussig's writing.