• Outspoken Indigenes and Nostalgic Migrants: Maori and Samoan Educating Performances in an Aotearoa New Zealand Cultural Festival

    Author(s):
    Ilana Gershon (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Anthropology
    Subject(s):
    Arts--Study and teaching, Performance art--Study and teaching
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    #maori, #Samoan migrants, #New Zealand, @migrants, Arts education, Cultural anthropology, Performance, Performance and politics, Performance studies
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6B478
    Abstract:
    Theorists of civil society often view civil society as a site for democratic education. Civil society is supposed to assist democratic practice by offering people contexts in which they practice promoting the common good. This article, following Nina Eliasoph 's intervention, takes this to be a claim requiring ethnographic exploration. The article provides an ethnographic answer to the question, What do people actually tell each other about the common good or national well-being in civil society moments? To explore this question, the authors turn to how a Samoan cultural group and a Maori cultural group rehearse and perform in a citywide high school cultural festival in Auckland. This article compares how migrant high school students and indigenous high school students use performances of traditional songs and dances to explore their relationships to the New Zealand nation. The article examines how the rehearsals take place, particularly who disciplines whom and how different levels of expertise are displayed. The authors compare how tutors circulate knowledge and discipline in the rehearsals with how the students perform their relationships to the New Zealand nation on stage.
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    Journal:
    Teacher\'s College Record
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    6 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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