Unfolding the moon : enacting women's kastom in Vanuatu /

"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 agai...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bolton, Lissant, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2003.
Temas:
Women > Vanuatu > Social conditions.
Textile fabrics > Vanuatu.
Women in development > Vanuatu.
Femmes > Vanuatu > Conditions sociales.
Textiles et tissus > Vanuatu.
Femmes dans le développement > Vanuatu.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Social conditions
Textile fabrics
Women in development
Women > Social conditions
Soziale Situation
Textilherstellung
Frau
Vrouwen.
Textieldruk.
Gebruiken.
Textiles et tissus > Usines > Vanuatu.
Femmes dans le développement économique > Vanuatu.
Vanuatu > Social conditions.
Vanuatu > Conditions sociales.
Vanuatu
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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