Palmerston North - The Tiki Tour - Tiki Travel

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Tue, Nov 22, 2011 8:50 AM This is really a fascinating subject. In my mind, the Savage Clubs most closely compare to the American Shriners and world-wide Masons, which (like Tiki), were looked at as outdated with the big generation change of the 60s and 70s. My grandfather was a Mason (I think everybody's grandfather was), my father already wasn't. The exoticism of the Shriners, making use of exotic costume and architecture, seems to stem from the same human desire to impersonate "the exotic other": Now the culture of that "other" has to have sufficient artistic and cultural achievement in the past to allow it to be romanticized, like the Arabic and Maori cultures do. It also helps to not be "black", like the Polynesians which had a light brown complexion. Unfortunately, the Australian aborigines had none of that: Their cultural traditions were way to obscure and mystic, and their physique and facial features did not lend themselves to the romantic Western ideal of the "noble savage". So I too doubt that the Australian Savage Clubs would be using their own country's native culture for logos and impersonation. And how does this compare?: http://sfeastbay.multiply.com/journal/item/859 :)

This is really a fascinating subject. In my mind, the Savage Clubs most closely compare to the American Shriners and world-wide Masons, which (like Tiki), were looked at as outdated with the big generation change of the 60s and 70s. My grandfather was a Mason (I think everybody's grandfather was), my father already wasn't.

The exoticism of the Shriners, making use of exotic costume and architecture, seems to stem from the same human desire to impersonate "the exotic other":

Now the culture of that "other" has to have sufficient artistic and cultural achievement in the past to allow it to be romanticized, like the Arabic and Maori cultures do. It also helps to not be "black", like the Polynesians which had a light brown complexion. Unfortunately, the Australian aborigines had none of that: Their cultural traditions were way to obscure and mystic, and their physique and facial features did not lend themselves to the romantic Western ideal of the "noble savage". So I too doubt that the Australian Savage Clubs would be using their own country's native culture for logos and impersonation.

And how does this compare?:
http://sfeastbay.multiply.com/journal/item/859

Post #614943 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Nov 22, 2011 8:50 AM