Visions of Performance in Tahiti
Vairaumati no Ra'iatea's Arioi
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12370069 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Cowell (0000-0002-2479-7670, Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 42-57 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Text and Performance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1046-2937 • E-ISSN: 1479-5760 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10462937.2012.730625 |
| OpenAlex | W2076964644 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
This article examines the novel Arioi by the Tahitian writer Vairaumati no Ra'iatea. The novel focuses on traditional Tahitian performers and performance practice at the time of missionary contact. The paper uses perspectives on performance adopted from ethnopoetics, folklore studies, and performance theory as a way of examining and theorizing the novel's reconstruction of indigenous performance. The central argument is that the novel presents a model of indigenous performance that is highly reflective, and that the basic feature of performance in the novel is not its orality but its ability to critically reflect on performance itself and the society which sustains that performance. As such, the novel offers its reconstruction of tradition not as a legitimation of past customs, but as a heuristic model for thinking about the need to reinvigorate critical self-reflection in modern Tahitian indigenous society, including in literary form
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Epistemology · Folklore · Indigenous · Legitimation · Modernity · Orality · Political science · Sociology · Vision · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Philosophy
Anthropology and Social Theory
Tahitians
Verbal art as performance
Story, Performance, and Event
Gender Trouble
Oceanic peoples in dialogue
Traditional Literatures of the American Indian, Texts and Interpretations
Agency
The Anthropology of Performance
In vain I tried to tell you
American folklore studies and social transformation
Verbal Art as Performance1
Poetics and Performances as Critical Perspectives on Language and Social Life
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |