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<div class="moz-forward-container">Dear Colleagues,<br>
Janina Fenigsen interviews Jane Goodman about her new book,
Staging Cultural Encounters: Algerian Actors Tour the United
States on the CaMP anthropology blog:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://campanthropology.org">https://campanthropology.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://campanthropology.org"><https://campanthropology.org></a><br>
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Best,<br>
Ilana<br>
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The press blurb:<br>
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Encounters</em><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:
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performances of cultural encounter and cultural exchange during
the US tour of the Algerian theater troupe Istijmam
Culturelle in 2016. Jane E. Goodman follows the Algerian theater
troupe as they prepare for and then tour the U.S. under the
auspices of the Center Stage program, sponsored by the US State
Department to promote cross-cultural dialogue and understanding.</span><br
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produced was translated as "Apples," written by Abdelkader
Alloula, a renowned Algerian playwright, director, and actor who
was assassinated in 1994. Goodman take readers on tour with the
actors as they move from the Kennedy Center in Washington,
D.C. to the large state universities of New Hampshire and
Indiana, and from a tiny community theater in small-town New
England to the stage of the avant-garde La MaMa Theater in New
York City.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color:
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Encounters</em><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:
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cross-cultural encounter, challenges in translation, and
audience reception, offering a frank account of the encounters
with American audiences and the successes and disappointments of
the experience of exchange.</span><br>
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