Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics

by Besnier, Niko

• ISBN13: 9780824833381
• ISBN10: 0824833384
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-07-01
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

Summary

Dancing from the Heart is the first study of gender, globalization, and expressive culture in the Cook Islands. It demonstrates how dance in particular plays a key role in articulating the overlapping local, regional, and transnational agendas of Cook Islanders. Kalissa Alexeyeff reconfigures conventional views of globalization's impact on indigenous communities, moving beyond diagnoses of cultural erosion and contamination to a grounded exploration of creative agency and vital cultural production. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Orthography and Transcription Conventions	p. xiii
Gossip, Hegemony, Agency	p. 1
The World from a Cooking Hut	p. 29
Hieratchy and Egalitarianism	p. 64
Morality and the Structure of Gossip	p. 94
The Twenty-Dollar Piglets	p. 120
The Two Widows	p. 143
Sorcery and Ambition	p. 166
Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics	p. 189
Notes	p. 195
References	p. 213
Index	p. 241
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