Deger, Jennifer (2004) Book Review: "Media Worlds: anthropology on new terrain" edited by F. Ginsburg, L. Abu-Lughod and B. Larkin. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA. University of California Press, 2002. ISBN: 0-5202-3231-3. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 15 (2). pp. 231-232.

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Abstract

[Extract] This book describes lucidly and engagingly the way in which women of Vanuatu, in the early 1990s, 'unfolded an aspect of their knowledge and practice (the making of woven and dyed leaf textiles) and laid it out in the national arena, asserting and redefining it for the first time as kastom' (p. xxxiv). Their action has potentially important political repercussions because, until then kastom - particular ways of knowing and the authority conveyed by them - belonged to men.

Item ID:	34035
Item Type:	Article (Book Review)
ISSN:	1757-6547
Date Deposited:	24 Jan 2017 00:45
FoR Codes:	16 STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY > 1601 Anthropology > 160104 Social and Cultural Anthropology @ 50% 20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2002 Cultural Studies > 200212 Screen and Media Culture @ 50%
SEO Codes:	97 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society @ 100%
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