Abstract
Toward the end of her paper, Anna Tsing takes up the debate between Marshall Sahlins and Gananath Obeyesekere around Captain Cook's encounter with the Hawaiians and asks what gender might make in reframing what has been a largely androcentric discussion. Her response is to cite the Meratus shaman, Uma Adang, responding to a debate on circumcision by saying, As for me, I can't really tell the difference (p. 293). Which, among other things, means that she can tell the that arises whenever a gendered subject speaks in a discursive terrain where gender differences have been so mystified as to make such differences seem normal. A Meratus woman's voice is thus
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