On Cultural Hybridity: Interpreting Colonial Authority and Performance

Benton, Lauren; Muth, John F.

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“…This is generally discussed within the context of Bhabha's (1994) model of cultural hybridity, in which post colonial societies are not characterized by the wholesale replacement of Indigenous beliefs and practices by Western ones, but develop a unique hybrid of the two. Moreover, this hybridity should not be understood as a merging of two static opposing cultural forms, but rather as the ongoing negotiation of identity in the continuing colonial encounter; and the extent of this cultural inbetween-ness is open to strategic manipulation by social actors (Benton and Muth 2000). Gosden (2004: 92), following White's (1991) delineation of post-Contact hybridity between Algonquian people and European trappers, refers to this shifting and in-between cultural space as a "Middle Ground," constantly open to negotiation and affecting and developed not just by the colonized but also by their colonizers.…”

Section: Adopting and Resisting European Technologiesmentioning

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Navigating Contact: Tradition and Innovation in Australian Contact Rock Art

Frieman

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2019

Int J Histor Archaeol

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Section: Adopting and Resisting European Technologiesmentioning

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Navigating Contact: Tradition and Innovation in Australian Contact Rock Art

Frieman

May

2019

Int J Histor Archaeol

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“…Some criticism has been levelled at Bhabha's (1994) conceptualisation of the term hybrid identities. Firstly, Bhabha (1994) assumes that there is a distinct cultural divide between the coloniser and the colonised (Benton and Muth 2000), an assumption that negates the fact that people from a particular class and ethnic background can be driven by different motives and can react differently in a given situation (Fitzgerald 2007). Secondly, feminists criticise Bhabha's (1994) notion of hybridity as it does not account for gender and the role of women in power relationships.…”

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Behind the Mask: Hybrid Identity Work of Indian Women Managers in Corporate South Africa

Carrim

2018

Afr. Asian Stud.

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There is a dearth of research on how women managers engage in hybrid identity work during their career transitions, and the aim of this study was to fill this gap. Interviews were conducted with 13 Indian women managers in senior and top managerial positions, and the data obtained were analysed using thematic analysis. The narratives indicate that previously disadvantaged groups (Indian women in this case) are caught between subscribing to cultural values and concurrently conforming to organisational norms. Participants’ answers to the question: “Who am I as an Indian female manager?” reveal that during their career ascendency these women engage in a tremendous amount of hybrid identity work and rework related to their self-concept of being an “ideal” Indian female and simultaneously being a “perfect” manager. Nevertheless, in their career transitions to managerial positions, these women are selective in the hybrid identity work they engage in.

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“…In the Hawaiian Islands, it seems, commoner resistance was largely ineffective as Hawaiian royalty and chiefly elites sought to ally themselves with agents of the emergent colonial powers (see Mullins and Paynter 2000 for a relevant discussion). Hawaiian elites' social construction of hybrid identities exemplifies a process that has been considered by scholars of colonialism elsewhere in the world (e.g., Benton and Muth 2000;Bhabha 1994;Young 1995). In many regions of the colonial world strategies of resistance by the colonized were occasionally rewarded with some measure of success (e.g., contributors in Preucel 2002).…”

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Technological Change and the Archaeology of Emergent Colonialism in the Kingdom of Hawai‘i

Bayman

2009

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Archaeologically informed history is vital for examining the consequences of emergent colonialism in the nineteenth century and earlier, since documentary sources are silent on many facets of everyday life. Interpretations of contact and colonialism in Oceania often highlight rapid changes in the technologies and practices of its traditional island societies. In Hawai'i, the top-down imposition of indigenous elite power greatly influenced the rate and character of technological change, as commoner access to European and American goods was initially curtailed in this highly stratified society. Although indigenous elites purposively used imported goods and technologies to materialize their hybrid identity-and to expand their political and economic power-this phenomenon presaged the development of unrestrained colonialism by Euro-Americans in the late nineteenth century. This study illustrates the need to examine a range of cultural and historical contingencies in studies of technological change during periods of emergent colonialism.

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On Cultural Hybridity: Interpreting Colonial Authority and Performance

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

Navigating Contact: Tradition and Innovation in Australian Contact Rock Art

Navigating Contact: Tradition and Innovation in Australian Contact Rock Art

Behind the Mask: Hybrid Identity Work of Indian Women Managers in Corporate South Africa

Technological Change and the Archaeology of Emergent Colonialism in the Kingdom of Hawai‘i

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