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Our Practices may Change, but the Values and Foundations of the Cultural Traditions Remain

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• Volume 4,Issue 6,Nov.,2017

Year:

2017

Type of Publication:

Article

Keywords:

Pacific methodologies, Samoan tattoo practices, Historical and Contemporary analyses

Authors:

• Ponton, V.

Journal:

IJIRES

Volume:

4

Number:

6

Pages:

716-718

Month:

November

ISSN:

2349-5219

BibTex:

@article{1127, author = "V. Ponton", abstract = "Male and female Samoan tattooing has always signified one’s perseverance and ability to withstand the pain of undergoing the ritual, as well as signified one’s identity, readiness and capacity to be of service to one’s extended family. What will be explored is the way in which this ritual has been embodied as a demonstration of reclaiming values of traditional practices thereby minimizing absolute extinction. Ways in which the tattoo ritual has evolved and changed over time, will be explored using the cultural lens of the Fonofale and Teu le Va models. This paper highlights the proposed research interest in utilizing Pacific methodologies to plan and undertake study of questions posed for more detailed exploration", issn = "23495219", journal = "IJIRES", keywords = "Pacific methodologies, Samoan tattoo practices, Historical and Contemporary analyses", month = "November", note = "This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/", number = "6", pages = "716-718", title = "{O}ur {P}ractices may {C}hange, but the {V}alues and {F}oundations of the {C}ultural {T}raditions {R}emain", volume = "4", year = "2017", }

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Abstract:

Male and female Samoan tattooing has always signified one’s perseverance and ability to withstand the pain of undergoing the ritual, as well as signified one’s identity, readiness and capacity to be of service to one’s extended family. What will be explored is the way in which this ritual has been embodied as a demonstration of reclaiming values of traditional practices thereby minimizing absolute extinction. Ways in which the tattoo ritual has evolved and changed over time, will be explored using the cultural lens of the Fonofale and Teu le Va models. This paper highlights the proposed research interest in utilizing Pacific methodologies to plan and undertake study of questions posed for more detailed exploration

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