Local settler administrators tolerated Moorish ways that outsiders found scandalous

Evidence

And in hushed whispers (“please, Papa, don’t dare tell anyone what I say, you know what rumors can do”), she’d write of her unkempt kin, the Lucassen women who went barefoot, ate appalling (local) food, and disapprovingly, she felt, policed what she would do or say. She in turn had contempt for their Indische ways. They were no longer oriented to Europe, kept inadequate distance from colonial customs, tastes, and dress, wore their sarongs out like bedclothes throughout the day. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1514 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Old Christian women adopted Moorish dress in Granada, alarming the crown; Settlers often integrated with the native population instead of exterminating them — Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking…, 107; Colonial settlers disciplined kin who ‘went native’ by adopting local dress and food. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1514 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Colonial settlers disciplined kin who ‘went native’ by adopting local dress and food. #complicates (0.80) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1514