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2015, No. (8), Anthropology and History
Małgorzata Owczarska
Time, space and alternative methods of expressing historicality: the case of Tahiti
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Keywords: Tahiti, French Polynesia, cultural revival, post-colonial theory, historicality, de-colonisation of history, history of native peoples, time, space, memory, historiography of Polynesia
Abstract: The article explores the Tahitian case of expressing indigenous historicities. If a concept of academic historiography is treated as one of many alternative ways of recording and remembering the past, it gives broader perspective to find, understand and treat seriously indigenous vision of history, and non-textual practice of connecting to the past. The article analyses relations between the local concepts of time, space and memory. The author translates this into the present movement of cultural renewal, giving examples of various discourses and practices that permit the islanders to “live” their own story. She notices as well paradoxes, interdependence and conflicts between European, colonial historiography and indigenous ways to consort with the past.
About Author:
OWCZARSKA MAŁGORZATA - cultural anthropologist, PhD student in the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Warsaw. Email: goska.owczarska[at]gmail.com
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