This chapter turns toward media studies while staying anchored in the same questions of identity, embodiment, and power that organize the earlier ritual scholarship. Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra become a way of thinking through how power is inhabited, contested, and morally interpreted.
Korra is especially central to the argument because her political and ethical arc makes embodied power inseparable from struggle over identity, legitimacy, and social responsibility.
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