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In the “non-political nature of subordinate groups”, it is especially interesting to consider one of Hawaii’s greatest cultural and social outlets, surfing art. If you surf, you will undoubtedly be aware of the various self-evident codes and rules governing the tribe. These norms and rules are partly part of a self-regulation in the lineup and a warning to outsiders or "non-locals." ["Local", especially in Hawaii, is a fairly loaded term, but we can limit it in our discussion to represent surfers not from the region/surf spots.] If you don't surf, then you from
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You know that these codes or rules are greatly filtered out by public records. But, in fact, to varying degrees, from
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In public and hidden transcripts, the “surfer code” representation provides us with an interesting window to understand how the hide and the public collide with each other.
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Surfers' hidden transcripts – Hawaiian surfing culture, localism and representation was originally published on Spring