Visions of Performance in Tahiti

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

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