Unfolding the moon: enacting women's kastom in Vanuatu
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1. Verfasser: Bolton, Lissant 1954- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Honolulu University of Hawaiʻi Press © 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-222) and index
1 - History/Kastom -- - 2 - Kastom in the National Arena -- - 3 - Women without Kastom -- - 4 - Ples -- - 5 - Ambae: On Being a Person of the Place -- - 6 - Plaiting: "The Reason That Women Came into the World" -- - 7 - Dyeing: Designs, Power, Status -- - 8 - Making Textiles into Kastom -- - Conclusion: Women with Kastom
"Unfolding the Moon is a lucid and engaging account of a quiet but crucial transformation in the status of women in Vanuatu. In the first decades after independence in 1980, kastom - ingenous knowledge and practice - became a key marker of ni-Vanuatu identity. Long used as a unifying force against the Anglo-French expatriates by leaders of the independence movement, kastom was almost entirely concerned with men: women were effectively excluded from participating in arts festivals, cultural programs, and other new national events. Then in 1991 the Vanuatu Cultural Centre initiated a project that focused on women's knowledge and skill in producing plaited pandanus textiles (mats) on the island of Ambae in north Vanuatu
This acknowledgment that "women have kastom too," widely welcomed by rural ni-Vanuatu, was an important step in establishing women's kastom."--Jacket
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xxxv, 232 pages)
ISBN:058546409X
0824825357
0824865405
9780585464091
9780824825355
9780824865405

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