Open AccessCreative Performance and Social Change: The Hawaiian Cultural Revolution As Dramatic Transformation
Author(s) -
N Scaletta
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of anthropology at mcmaster
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0707-3771
DOI - 10.15173/nexus.v1i1.34
Subject(s) - social change , social transformation , sociology , drama , cultural revolution , period (music) , context (archaeology) , transformation (genetics) , social inertia , social science , aesthetics , economic geography , epistemology , social relation , history , china , literature , geography , social position , political science , art , chemistry , archaeology , gene , law , philosophy , biochemistry
The dynamics of social change is to a large extent problematic in anthropological theory, particularly within the context of the Hawaiian cultural revolution, for here social change was rapidly accomplished in a short period of time. The Hawaiian cultural revolution has been utilized as a special case whereby macro-level theories of social change have been tested. By using Cohen's notion of creative performance as dramatic transformation and Turner's social drama as analytic framework, this paper located the dynamics of social change at the micro-level i.e., in the purposeful activity of individuals.