Like something out of a Judith Butler text about gender performance, the fa'afafine of Samoa are boys that are raised and culturally treated as if they were girls -- basically the mirror image of the sworn virgins of Albania. It's amazing stuff; our friend Su, a former Peace Corps worker who was stationed in Samoa, was telling us all about it last night. (She also had some very interesting things to say about the tension between indigenous Samoan religious beliefs, which are publically denied but privately practiced, and the nation's newer Christian beliefs, which are publically practiced but privately denied. Maybe I'll get into this another time. Best of all was Su's discussion of the Samoan word "maloo," which, like "aloha," means everything.)

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