TY - JOUR
T1 - Stages in life
T2 - Narrative practices and identities of filipina go-go dancers
AU - Ratliff, Eric A.
PY - 2004/4
Y1 - 2004/4
N2 - Social interaction involves performances across varied ‘stages’ of space and time, where subject-authors use narrative conventions to communicate their beliefs, identities, and desires in order to influence the opinions and behaviour of others. As participants in these performances, people consider the particular context in which these utterances occur since narratives vary according to changes in audience composition and the discursive structures that frame social encounters. In this article I discuss how Filipina go-go dancers develop creative storylines that describe their biographical progression as young women in this modern, cosmopolitan setting. Despite the apparent position of ‘powerlessness,’ these actors exhibit considerable agency through the intentional re-presentation of certain scripts (such as the ‘dutiful daughter’ or ‘girlfriend’), choosing which stories to enact and using the transitional context of the bar to develop new biographical narratives.
AB - Social interaction involves performances across varied ‘stages’ of space and time, where subject-authors use narrative conventions to communicate their beliefs, identities, and desires in order to influence the opinions and behaviour of others. As participants in these performances, people consider the particular context in which these utterances occur since narratives vary according to changes in audience composition and the discursive structures that frame social encounters. In this article I discuss how Filipina go-go dancers develop creative storylines that describe their biographical progression as young women in this modern, cosmopolitan setting. Despite the apparent position of ‘powerlessness,’ these actors exhibit considerable agency through the intentional re-presentation of certain scripts (such as the ‘dutiful daughter’ or ‘girlfriend’), choosing which stories to enact and using the transitional context of the bar to develop new biographical narratives.
KW - Agency
KW - Biographical narrative
KW - Filipina Go-go dancers
KW - Identities
KW - Performances
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=50549092734&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/1444221042000201706
DO - 10.1080/1444221042000201706
M3 - Article
SN - 1444-2213
VL - 5
SP - 35
EP - 48
JO - Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
JF - Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
IS - 1
ER -