By Lissant Bolton
Within the first many years after independence in 1980, kastom - indigenous wisdom and perform - grew to become a key marker of ni-Vanuatu id. notwithstanding, it was once virtually completely excited by males. Then in 1991 the Vanuatu Cultural Centre initiated a undertaking that curious about women's wisdom and talent in generating plaited pandanus textiles (mats) at the island of Ambae in north Vanuatu. This acknowledgment that "women have kastom too," commonly welcomed via rural ni-Vanuatu, used to be an important step in setting up women's kastom. Lissant Bolton's account of this crucial yet undocumented interval considers the situations that resulted in those occasions and analyzes their results on Ambae, Her ethnography of women's creation and use of plaited pandanus textiles exhibits a altering global wherein colonial and missionary rules concerning the place of ladies and feminist discourses on women's rights have engaged with particular, kinship-based buildings of gender to create modern ni-Vanuatu perspectives at the place of ladies.
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Among these Susanna Kelly completed research on the central island of Tongoa, writing her doctorate about the pandanus mats women make and use there (1999). A small collection of articles describing new research in anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics was produced in 1999. This latter publication, which I edited, emphasized the impact the moratorium has had on research agenda, demonstrating the influence of the Cultural Centre, and especially the fieldworkers on the development of new research projects (Bolton 1999).
My closest neighbor in the Ambae village in which I was based had his radio tuned to Radio Vanuatu from morning to evening, and I overheard the service message broadcast in many remote parts of the island. People listened to the news, to service messages, to cyclone warnings, to shipping movements. Our Ambae project was the subject of numerous items on the VNCW program and, as news, on a current affairs program produced by Studio Five North, which is based on Santo, as well as being the basis for many of the Vanuatu Cultural Centre’s own programs.
P r e v i o u s Research In setting out to study women’s production and use of textiles on Ambae, I joined a research group that had been largely stalled by the research moratorium. Academic study moves forward by a process of interaction and stimulation, through the influence that information and analysis in one project has upon the next. Without the stimulus of new data and new theoretical perspectives arising from new fieldwork, Vanuatu studies had slowed. Research in the archipelago has had a somewhat checkered history, so that the moratorium was in this sense only the next occasion on which a developing dialogue halted.