Transcultural performances of ethnicity

Abstract

In Chapter 5, I examined how the Runa Takiks and their wives and mothers performed gender and how the contexts of their interactions shaped these performances. In this chapter, I look closer at context in my discussion on how the male musicians performed ethnicity. Following the definitions of Jenkins (2008) and Liebscher and Daily-O’Cain (2013), and similar to my own interpretations of gender and identity, I define ethnicity not as something one has, but rather as something one does—as ‘complex repertoires which people experience, learn and “do” in their daily lives’ (Jenkins 2008, p. 15).