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

• 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.

• "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. 
• This acknowledgment that "women have kastom too," widely welcomed by rural ni-Vanuatu, was an important step in establishing women's kastom."--Jacket. 

Ämnesord

Kvinnor  (sao)

Textilier  (sao)

Samhällsliv  (sao)

Women  -- Vanuatu -- Social conditions. (LCSH)

Textile fabrics  -- Vanuatu. (LCSH)

Women in development  -- Vanuatu. (LCSH)

Femmes  -- Vanuatu -- Conditions sociales. (Vedettes-matière)

Textiles et tissus  -- Vanuatu. (Vedettes-matière)

Femmes dans le développement  -- Vanuatu. (Vedettes-matière)

Social conditions  (fast)

Textile fabrics.  (fast)

Women in development.  (fast)

Vrouwen.  (gtt)

Textieldruk.  (gtt)

Gebruiken.  (gtt)

Soziale Situation  (gnd)

Textilherstellung  (gnd)

Frau.  (swd)

Women  -- Social conditions. (fast)

Femmes  -- Vanuatu -- Conditions sociales. (ram)

Textiles et tissus  -- Usines -- Vanuatu. (ram)

Femmes dans le développement économique  -- Vanuatu. (ram)

Manners and customs  (LCSH)

Textile fabrics  (LCSH)

Women  (LCSH)

Vanuatu  (sao)

Vanuatu  -- Social conditions. (LCSH)

Vanuatu  -- Conditions sociales. (Vedettes-matière)

Vanuatu.  (fast)

Vanuatu  (gnd)

Vanuatu  -- Conditions sociales. (ram)

Klassifikation

HQ1867.5 (LCC)

305.42/099595 (DDC)

73.21 (bcl)

Ohja (kssb/8 (machine generated))