| Description |
1 online resource (xxxv, 232 pages) : illustrations, map |
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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 |
| Summary |
"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 |
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This acknowledgment that "women have kastom too," widely welcomed by rural ni-Vanuatu, was an important step in establishing women's kastom."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-222) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Women -- Vanuatu -- Social conditions
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Textile fabrics -- Vanuatu
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Women in development -- Vanuatu
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Social conditions
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Textile fabrics
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Women in development
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Women -- Social conditions
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Soziale Situation
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Textilherstellung
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Frau
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Vrouwen.
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Textieldruk.
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Gebruiken.
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Femmes -- Vanuatu -- Conditions sociales.
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Textiles et tissus -- Usines -- Vanuatu.
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Femmes dans le développement économique -- Vanuatu.
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Iwi taketake.
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Vanuatu -- Social conditions
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Vanuatu
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Vanuatu
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Vanuatu -- Conditions sociales.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2002009059 |
| ISBN |
058546409X |
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9780585464091 |
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9780824865405 |
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0824865405 |
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