Women of the Place
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AMBRYM NORTH
Author_Margaret Jolly
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gender relations research
graded
Graded Society
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Grass Skirt
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Kastom Villages
matrilineal kinship
Matrilineal Moiety
Melanesian ethnography
Melanesian Mission
Mother's Agnates
Mother’s Agnates
Northern Vanuatu
Pacific anthropology
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Penis Wrapper
postcolonial gender dynamics Vanuatu
Rigid Sexual Division
ritual and myth analysis
Sa Speakers
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Slit Gongs
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South East
speakers
Ta Ion
Wife's Agnates
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Wife’s Agnates
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Product details
- ISBN 9783718654048
- Weight: 952g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 08 Apr 1997
- Publisher: Harwood-Academic Publishers
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
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Women of the Place is a study of gender relations in the kastom communities of South Pentecost, Vanuatu. It considers kastom in these communities not as an eternal tradition, but rather as a way of life, an identity in relation, and in resistance to the forces of European development. The way in which Christian missions, the labour trade, and the development of Western political institutions had a divergent impact on women and men is explored. The relations between persons and things is highlighted in an examination of the myths and rituals of the life-cycle and of grade-taking. The significance of this ritual is located in the context of colonial history, particularly the impact of pacification on men. Finally, the book considers more generally kastom and gender in the post-colonial state.
