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Unfolding the Moon
Lissant Bolton
其他書名
Enacting Women's Kastom in Vanuatu
出版University of Hawaii Press, 2003-01-01
主題Social Science / Women's StudiesSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralDesign / Textile & Costume
ISBN08248253579780824825355
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=yGskvx1ecocC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In the first decades after independence in 1980, kastom - indigenous knowledge and practice - became a key marker of ni-Vanuatu identity. However, it was almost entirely concerned with men. 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 a significant step in establishing women's kastom. Lissant Bolton's account of this important but undocumented period considers the circumstances that led to these events and analyzes their effects on Ambae, Her ethnography of women's production and use of plaited pandanus textiles shows a changing world whereby colonial and missionary ideas about the position of women and feminist discourses on women's rights have engaged with specific, kinship-based constructions of gender to create contemporary ni-Vanuatu views on the position of women.