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Each year, the 8th of March marks International Women's Day, a celebration of the social, cultural, economic and political achievements of women from all over the globe. Samoa is no exception and from world renowned chefs, legendary hoteliers and trailblazing professors to local political leaders, the Treasured Islands of the South Pacific are not short of great female role models. Born inAggie Grey was a pioneer at a difficult time for women in business.
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Log in through your institution. Go to Table of Contents. In Samoa today the transvestite plays a role once played by pre-Christian girls in nighttime exchanges of entertainment. Ambiguous and liminal in "her" relation to genderthe Samoan transvestite acts out a jest about these. This jest dramatically illustrates the importance of a sensitivity to local humor and to ironic modes of self-representation in ethnographic perspectives on sex roles, social structure, and personhood. The form of humor "she" practices also sheds light on the place of the erotic in Samoa from the missionization period to the present, a subject that has long preoccupied the anthropological imagination.
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Abstract In Samoa today the transvestite plays a role once played by pre-Christian girls in nighttime exchanges of entertainment. Journal Information American Ethnologist is a quarterly journal concerned with ethnology in the broadest sense of the term. Publisher Information Wiley is a global provider of content and content-enabled workflow solutions in areas of scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly research; professional development; and education.