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The importance ofkastomto national identity in Vanuatu has been recognized. In this paper I identify plaiting technology in general and basketry in particular — which once served to distinguish ethnic groups in Vanuatu — as emerging symbols of ni‐Vanuatu unity. I argue that unlike thesekastomtraditions often discussed in the literature, plaiting and basketry need not be reinvented. Plaiting is a customary practice which has rich contemporaneous expressions. Plaited products may be fully elaborated in local detail and yet, as shared productions of a technology with common features, can simultaneously represent ni‐Vanuatu i

ISSN:0025-2328    

DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1988.tb01291.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0025-2328    

DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1988.tb01292.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

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In this paper I examine the Shan calendrical system as an aspect of exoteric knowledge. To do this I first place the communities I lived in and the experts I consulted in the context of Shan communities and Shan experts. Next I provide a brief account of the Shan calendrical system as I learned it from local experts. I then discuss what everyday people know about the system and age and gender variation in the extent of knowledge. In order to understand this variation. I briefly describe Shan conception of knowledge and power and the place of Buddhism in this system. I go on to explore how one acquires expert status, how experts use calendrical knowledge, and why people consult experts.

ISSN:0025-2328    

DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1988.tb01293.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

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This paper concerns cultural and social ideas and practices on gender differences among Latin American immigrants in Australia. It explores the ways in which immigrants' notions of gender relations expressed asmarianismo/machismogenerated in their societies of origin, influence the social gender relationships among the settlers in Australia. The argument is thatmarianismo/machismoare ideological constructs which reinforce woman's oppression and at the same time help to perpetuate social relations of inequality between men and women.

ISSN:0025-2328    

DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1988.tb01294.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

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Book reviewed in this article:The Amateur and the Professional: Antiquarians, Historians and Archaeologists in Victorian England, 1838–1886.By Philippa Levine.Poverty and Behaviour in Bangladesh.By Clarence Maloney.Academic Freedom and Apartheid: The Story of the World Archaeological Congress.By Peter Ucko.Physicians of Western Medicine: Aathropologicrrl Approaches to Theory and Practice.Edited by R.A. Hahn and A.D. Gaines.To My Delight — The Autobiography of Bill Cohen, a Grandson of the Gumbmgrri.By Bill Cohen.Man the Manipulator: An Ethno‐archaeological Basis for Reconstructing the Past.By Alex Steensberg.Early Tonga as the Explorers Saw It, 1616–1810.By Edwin N. Ferdon.A Double Colonization. Colonial and Post‐colonial Women's Writing.By Kirsten Holst Petersen and Anna Rutherford.The Second Billion.By Penny Kane.The Archaeology of Contextual Meanings.Edited by Ian Hodder.Archaeology as Long‐term History.Edited by Ian Hodder.The Totem and the Tricolour: A Short History of New Caledonia Since 1774.By Martyn Lyons.The Agta of Northeastern Luzon: Recent Studies.Edited by P. Bion Griffin&Agnes Estioko‐Griffin.Hunters in Transition. Mesolithic Societies of Temperate Eurasia and their Transition to Farming.Edited by Marek Zvelebil.Children's Explanations: A Psycholinguistic Study.By Morag L. Donaldson.Harmony and Hierarchy in a Javanese Kampung.By Patrick Guinness.Dreamtime: Concerning the Boundary Between Wilderness and Civilization.By Hans‐Peter Duerr.South Africa and the Anthropologist.By Adam Kuper.Trade, Traders and Trading in Rural Java.By Jennifer Alexander.Language Socialization Across Cultures.Edited by Bambi B. Schieffelin and Elinor Ochs.Feathered Gods and Fishhooks: An Introduction to Hawaiian Archaeology and Prehistor

ISSN:0025-2328    

DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1988.tb01295.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY