Yunnan Sketches

Nightingale, Eithne

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Colonial Tāupōu Identity and Shifting Gender Roles1

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“…As Samoans became universally Christian during the nineteenth century, mission teachers tried to end Joking Nights (Nightingale 1835: 89). Samoan ministers insisted that people be allowed to continue dignified dancing (Moyle 1988: 205‐6) – the cultural model for which was the first segment of Joking Nights in which the tāupōu sometimes danced the final solo ( taualuga ).…”

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Zones of ambiguity and identity politics in Samoa

Mageo

2008

Royal Anthropological Inst

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Here I illustrate a deconstructive practice through which indigenes actively resist colonial identity politics. By creating 'zones of ambiguity' in the performing arts, indigenes think through colonial images of gender and race. Bhabha's 'zones of ambivalence' characterize contradictions in colonists' approach to the colonized and self-contradictory identities that colonists force 'mimic men' to assume. Zones of ambiguity, in contrast, characterize indigenes' approach to the hybrid identities that colonists' ambivalence visits upon them: indigenes purposefully design these zones to transform stereotypic projections and to comment on colonial experience. I explore these ideas through two evening performances in Samoa described in two 1930s travelogues that allude to key figures in Samoan (post)colonial history -the ceremonial virgin (tāupōu) and the male transvestite (fa'afafine).

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Section: Colonial Tāupōu Identity and Shifting Gender Rolesmentioning

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Zones of ambiguity and identity politics in Samoa

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Royal Anthropological Inst

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