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Sinuous Objects : Revaluing Women S Wealth In The Contemporary Pacific
Paperback Edition: 1
In the Epilogue, Professor Margaret Jolly observes how the volume also trace[s] a more abstract sinuosity in the movement of these things through time and place, as they coil through different regimes of value... The eight chapters trace winding paths across the contemporary Pacific, from the Trobriands in Milne Bay, to Maisin, Wanigela and Korafe in Oro Province, Papua New Guinea, through the islands of Tonga to diasporic Tongan and Cook Islander communities in New Zealand. This comparative perspective elucidates how womens wealth is defined, valued and contested in current exchanges, bride-price debates, church settings, development projects and the challenges of living in diaspora. Importantly, this reveals how women themselves preserve the different values and meanings in gift-giving and exchanges, despite processes of commodification that have resulted in the decline or replacement of womens wealth..
Featured in the 28 August 2017 New Zealand / Pasifika Newsletter.
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Pages : 292
Publisher : ANU Press
Publication date : 2017-08-17
Subjects: Non-fiction, New Zealand, Pasifika, NZ Sociology, Pacific History