Staging the Pacific: Framing Authenticity in Performances for Tourists at the Polynesian Cultural Center

1998 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher B Balme
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Center ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Polynesian Cultural Center

Archaeology and Community: A Village Cultural Center and Museum in Ecuador

1994 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin McEwan ◽  
Chris Hudson ◽  
Maria-Isabel Silva
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Cultural Center ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Prolonged Drought

In mid-1979 the Pacific coast of Ecuador lay in the grip of a fierce and prolonged drought. The seasonal winter rains had failed to materialize for several years, and, unable to make ends meet, many peasants fled the rural farms and villages to seek a change of fortune in the sprawling shanty towns of Guayaquil, Manta, and Libertad.

Exoticized Voices, Racialized Bodies

2019 ◽  
pp. 83-112
Author(s):  
Jake Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Musical Theater ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Cultural Center ◽  
White American ◽  
Book Of Mormon ◽  
American Values ◽  
History Of ◽  
Polynesian Cultural Center ◽  
The 1960S

Just as Mormons used musical theater to purchase whiteness in the early twentieth century, so too do Mormons begin in the 1960s to use musical theater to associate other racial minorities with white American values. By allowing certain groups the opportunity to voice whiteness through the conventions of musical theater, Mormons reimagined the genre as a tool to transform some minority members into exemplars of whiteness. This chapter first details the history of Mormonism in Hawaii and the musical theater productions at the Mormon-owned Polynesian Cultural Center that began there in 1963. Importantly, Mormons have long understood dark-skinned Polynesians, like themselves, to be a chosen people, rather than cursed--displaced Jews, in fact, whose origins are explained in The Book of Mormon. The chapter then analyzes the Mormon musical Life . . . More Sweet than Bitter, billed as a sequel to Fiddler on the Roof, for its narrative explicitly connecting Mormons to Judaism. The musical stage thus becomes for modern Mormons a reckoning device to demonstrate belonging and acceptance in exotic terms--“whitening” the dark-skinned Polynesians and demonstrating fluidity between Mormonism and Judaism.

Cult Traits in Southeastern Costa Rica and Their Significance

1963 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doris Stone
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Central America ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Central American ◽  
Western Coast ◽  
Northern Boundary ◽  
Cultural Center ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Caribbean

AbstractThe finding of ceremonial bone and shell objects at Puntarenas Farm, Jalaca, southeastern Costa Rica, along with ceramics of known Chiriqui or Red and Black ware, has thrown new light upon the extent of pre-Columbian trade and the penetration of cult traits from northern South America into lower Central America. Although no radiocarbon date has been obtained as yet, it is known that the manufacture of Chiriqui or Red and Black ware was continued into post-Columbian times.The presence in this region of shells found only on the Caribbean coast of Central America and not on the Pacific, as well as artifacts of manatee (Trichechus m. manatus Linn.) bone, also associated solely with the Caribbean littoral, indicate the extent and importance of trade. In the same sense, the appearance of the alligator-serpent motif on both coasts of the Nicoya Peninsula and on the western coast with ware related to Ulua Polychrome types and with an Ulua style alabaster vase, places a new northern boundary with respect to the diffusion of this cult motif. The Ulua Polychrome types and the Ulua style alabaster vase put a time horizon covering from A.D. 1000 probably to the Spanish arrival. The alligator-serpent concept, so familiar in the Amazon and Andean regions, the “eagle” or “condor” concept, the feline, the monkey, and the frog all emphasize the common base of lower Central American religion. Likewise they point to San Agustin as a cultural center of great importance in lower Central America.From the artistic point of view, the bone objects represent some of the most intricate carving yet known in eastern Central America. Both the style and subject matter place these figures in a different category from bone artifacts associated with Mesoamerican cultures.

The Philological Association of The Pacific Coast

PMLA ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1373-1374
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
The Pacific

The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast was held at Stanford University, California, on November 29 and 30, 1935.

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