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Jan: /* Cultures in contact */

2009-07-30T21:14:09Z

Cultures in contact

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	:Nizier and Chanel appreciate the local food (no ''cuisinophobia!'') and the kava, they enjoy the music and the dances, admire the food gardens and the people’s fishing skills. The missionaries disregard Colin’s injunctions on moving about alone and Brother Nizier happily measures a local lady for a dress.		:Nizier and Chanel appreciate the local food (no ''cuisinophobia!'') and the kava. Chanel has acquired a taste for the thick white worms that are prized out of dead wood.<ref> Chevron to family, 21.10.40. Rozier, op. cit. doc 16 [28]. It is a guess on my part that these must be the worms found in dead wood, especially of the breadfruit trees. Chevron says they were eaten raw. More probably, as in many islands, they were eaten after having been roasted for a few moments on a small open fire.</ref> They enjoy the music and the dances, admire the food gardens and the people’s fishing skills. The missionaries disregard Colin’s injunctions on moving about alone and Brother Nizier happily measures a local lady for a dress.


	:Bataillon wonders how the Polynesians ever managed to build their vast houses and canoes without the steel axes and knives they had only recently obtained. He too admires the gardening skills of the men, the variety of their food crops, the rotating use of the land, the courtesies of the kava ceremony. Luzy admires the huge ocean-faring canoes, and the courage with which the Wallisians take to the open ocean. Where Colin fears indecent nudity, Bataillon finds people modestly dressed in colourful tapa<ref> Laval too, op. cit. p. 35, makes the point that, even before contact, the women of the Gambier Islands were always modestly dressed with a long ''tapa'' knotted over one shoulder. </ref>, and men and women bathing on separate spots, far apart. On Wallis he finds no sign of idolatry, but great respect for the taboos. He sees that some chiefs may have two or more wives, but that the common people are monogamous and that they are generally faithful to their spouses. He sees people sharing their food and notices their generosity to strangers: a well-ordered, hierarchical society where authority is respected, where men grow and prepare the food, women take care of the children and produce the tapa clothing.		:Bataillon wonders how the Polynesians ever managed to build their vast houses and canoes without the steel axes and knives they had only recently obtained. He too admires the gardening skills of the men, the variety of their food crops, the rotating use of the land, the courtesies of the kava ceremony. Luzy admires the huge ocean-faring canoes, and the courage with which the Wallisians take to the open ocean. Where Colin fears indecent nudity, Bataillon finds people modestly dressed in colourful tapa<ref> Laval too, op. cit. p. 35, makes the point that, even before contact, the women of the Gambier Islands were always modestly dressed with a long ''tapa'' knotted over one shoulder. </ref>, and men and women bathing on separate spots, far apart. On Wallis he finds no sign of idolatry, but great respect for the taboos. He sees that some chiefs may have two or more wives, but that the common people are monogamous and that they are generally faithful to their spouses.<ref> A few years later, Chevron, op. cit. [16] says spouses separate often and easily. He could not say that yet from his own observations. Had Bataillon come to see that his early impressions had been too optimistic, and told Chevron?</ref> He sees people sharing their food and notices their generosity to strangers: a well-ordered, hierarchical society where authority is respected, where men grow and prepare the food, women take care of the children and produce the tapa clothing.

Merv at 05:59, 21 June 2009

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Merv at 07:12, 15 December 2008

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Merv at 02:56, 20 September 2008

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Jan: /* Cultures in contact */

2008-08-04T19:36:57Z

Cultures in contact

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	:One would have expected all the symptoms of culture shock. The way they had reacted to the local people on the Canary Islands<ref> Cf. [[APAC46\|above, p. 46f]]. </ref> and the romanticism that Mangareva aroused<ref> Cf. [[APAC58\|above, p. 58f]]. </ref>, prove they had no natural immunity. Still, on Wallis, on Futuna, and along the Hokianga River in New Zealand, all of them tell us of the Polynesian people in ways that are singularly free of the jolts that intensive involvement in those alien cultures could easily have caused. They see nothing ridiculous and nothing wrong in the people’s way of life. Nor do they romanticize.<ref> Cf. Luzbetak, ''The Church and Cultures'', pp. 203 – 222. With a wink at his own experience in Papua New Guinea, Luzbetak identifies ''cuisinophobia'' as a symptom of culture shock. Cf. p. 206. </ref> ~~They display a remarkable objectivity. Although they came with~~ the ~~prospect~~ of ~~having to convert~~ barbarous cannibals, they are in no way judgmental and describe what they see with sympathy. They came full of the usual prejudices, but ~~after a few months~~ the prejudices have melted away in the face of reality.		:One would have expected all the symptoms of culture shock. The way they had reacted to the local people on the Canary Islands<ref> Cf. [[APAC46\|above, p. 46f]]. </ref> and the romanticism that Mangareva aroused<ref> Cf. [[APAC58\|above, p. 58f]]. </ref>, prove they had no natural immunity. Still, on Wallis, on Futuna, and along the Hokianga River in New Zealand, all of them tell us of the Polynesian people in ways that are singularly free of the jolts that intensive involvement in those alien cultures could easily have caused. They see nothing ridiculous and nothing wrong in the people’s way of life. Nor do they romanticize.<ref> Cf. Luzbetak, ''The Church and Cultures'', pp. 203 – 222. With a wink at his own experience in Papua New Guinea, Luzbetak identifies ''cuisinophobia'' as a symptom of culture shock. Cf. p. 206. </ref> Chanel notes that on the Singave side of the island men as well as women behave less modestly than on the Tua side, under King Niuliki.<ref> EC, p. 335. 14.03.38.</ref> The missionaries expected barbarous cannibals, but they are in no way judgmental and describe what they see with sympathy. They came full of the usual prejudices, but very soon the prejudices have melted away in the face of reality.

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2008-04-13T09:55:17Z

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Jan: /* Cultures in contact */

2008-04-04T20:18:29Z

Cultures in contact

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	:What was it that went right? The Marist missionaries were defenceless, unarmed, entirely dependent on their Polynesian hosts. They displayed an incredible trust in the people’s goodwill. In comparison with the Methodists in New Zealand as well as in the islands, they were poor, and had very little to offer but a strange ''lotu''. Unlike the visiting sailors, they respected the women and showed compassion with the suffering. The Polynesians responded with kindness. May we think that it was their very dependence that guarded the missionaries from the feelings of superiority which so easily lead to culture shock? And, may we think too, that it was precisely their trust that brought out the best in their hosts?		:What was it that went right? The Marist missionaries were defenceless, unarmed, entirely dependent on their Polynesian hosts. They displayed an incredible trust in the people’s goodwill. In comparison with the Methodists in New Zealand as well as in the islands, they were poor, and had very little to offer but a strange ''lotu''. Unlike the visiting sailors, they respected the women and showed compassion with the suffering. The Polynesians responded with kindness. May we think that it was their very dependence that guarded the missionaries from the feelings of superiority which so easily lead to culture shock? And, may we think too, that it was precisely their trust that brought out the best in their hosts? Whatever it was, Pompallier need not have worried. Their piety was able to cope.



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Merv at 23:23, 12 February 2008

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2008-01-17T01:04:41Z

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Merv at 22:55, 14 January 2008

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	:By the end of 1838 the whole of Wallis knew that these two ''papalangi'' (Europeans) had their own ''lotu'', and that it was not the same as the one in Tonga. The people could see the religious ceremonies in the missionaries’ house and the two felt free to speak about it (08.04). Bataillon and Luzy refrained from saying they had come to convert Uvea to their ''lotu''. The island was very divided on the issue. Most people felt secure in their old religion, and there was a deep distrust of any ''lotu papalangi'', always associated with the Methodism in Tonga. Quite a few people, including a brother of Lavelua (12.04), were inclined to accept the ''lotu'' of Bataillon (17.04), and he secretly had a small band of catechumens who met on one of the twenty odd little islands on the ring of the vast lagoon that surrounds Wallis. Lavelua did not approve of it but mostly pretended not to know. Some people urged Bataillon to force the issue by putting the king for the choice, either to accept the ''lotu'' or to send him away (04.04). But all through 1838 the missionaries thought it better not to come out into the open.<ref> Cf. [[Girard0028\|LRO, doc. 28]] [26]. </ref>		:By the end of 1838 the whole of Wallis knew that these two ''papalangi'' (Europeans) had their own ''lotu'', and that it was not the same as the one in Tonga. The people could see the religious ceremonies in the missionaries’ house and the two felt free to speak about it (08.04). Bataillon and Luzy refrained from saying they had come to convert Uvea to their ''lotu''. The island was very divided on the issue. Most people felt secure in their old religion, and there was a deep distrust of any ''lotu papalangi'', always associated with the Methodism in Tonga. Quite a few people, including a brother of Lavelua (12.04), were inclined to accept the ''lotu'' of Bataillon (17.04), and he secretly had a small band of catechumens who met on one of the twenty odd little islands on the ring of the vast lagoon that surrounds Wallis. Lavelua did not approve of it but mostly pretended not to know. Some people urged Bataillon to force the issue by putting the king for the choice, either to accept the ''lotu'' or to send him away (04.04). But all through 1838 the missionaries thought it better not to come out into the open.<ref> Cf. [[Girard0028\|LRO, doc. 28]] [26]. </ref>

	[[Image:Uvea wallis.jpg\|center]]
			[[Image:Uvea wallis.jpg\|center\|Wallis Island]]


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