ISBN:
058546409X
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0824825357
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0824865405
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9780585464091
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9780824825355
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9780824865405
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxxv, 232 pages)
DDC:
305.42/099595
Keywords:
Femmes / Vanuatu / Conditions sociales
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Textiles et tissus / Vanuatu
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Femmes dans le développement / Vanuatu
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
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Social history
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Textile fabrics
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Women in development
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Women / Social conditions
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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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Soziale Situation
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Frau
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Textilherstellung
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Frau
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Sozialgeschichte
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Women Social conditions
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Textile fabrics
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Women in development
Note:
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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-222) and index
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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
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"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
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