1st Edition
Women of the Place Kastom, Colonialism and Gender in Vanuatu
By Margaret Jolly
Copyright 1997
322 Pages
by
Routledge
322 Pages
by
Routledge
322 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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Biography
Margaret Jolly
