When Culture Is Not A System: Why Samoan Cultural Brokers Can Not Do Their Job

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dc.citation.firstpage533en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber4en_US
dc.citation.journalTitleEthnosen_US
dc.citation.lastpage558en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber71en_US
dc.contributor.authorGershon, Ilanaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-07T16:55:28Z
dc.date.available2023-11-07T16:55:28Z
dc.date.issued2006en_US
dc.description.abstractIn independent and American Samoa, Samoan representatives have historically been successful at furthering their communities' interests when dealing with various colonial regimes. Yet during my fieldwork in California, I kept witnessing failed encounters between Samoan migrants and government officials. I argue that government officials helped create these problems through the ways they expected Samoan migrants to act as culture-bearers. I conclude by exploring how cultural mediators become the focal point for tensions generated by the contradictory assumptions government system-carriers and Samoan culture-bearers hold about how to relate to social orders.en_US
dc.identifier.citationGershon, I. (2006). When Culture Is Not A System: Why Samoan Cultural Brokers Can Not Do Their Job. Ethnos, 71(4), 533–558. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141840601050700
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/00141840601050700en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/115307
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.rightsThis work is protected by copyright, and is made available here for research and educational purposes. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.en_US
dc.subject.keywordMigrantsen_US
dc.subject.keywordwelfareen_US
dc.subject.keywordcultural mediatorsen_US
dc.subject.keywordpolitical representationen_US
dc.titleWhen Culture Is Not A System: Why Samoan Cultural Brokers Can Not Do Their Joben_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
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