Gender, language, & global processes

[Miriam Meyerhoff]

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>What works have you found useful at this intersection?
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>Looking forward to hearing about works I may not know.
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>Niko
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>Niko Besnier
>Professor of Cultural Anthropology, University of Amsterdam
>Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Dear Niko,

There are a couple of papers I have used in classes which might be 
the sorts of things you're after. I imagine you will know these, 
since they fall within your own geographic bias.

Dureau, Christine 1998. From sisters to wives: changing contexts of 
maternity on Simbo, Western Solomon Islands. In Kalpana Ram & 
Margaret Jolly (eds) Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and 
postcolonial experiences in Asia and the Pacfic. Cambridge: CUP 
239-274.

Jackson, Peter A. 1997. Kathoey><Gay><Man: The historical emergence 
of gay male identity in Thailand. In Lenore Manderson & Margaret 
Jolly (eds) Sites of Desire: Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in 
Asia and the Pacific. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press. 
166-190.

Both start from changes in naming and referring practices (so you can 
readily make connections with, e.g., Sally McConnell-Ginet's work on 
this in the lg and gender field). Dureau's piece might be relevant to 
you insofar as her case study concerns missionising in the Solomons. 
Jackson's piece has connections with your own work and Bill Leap's on 
the impact of a global(ising) identity of "gay" on local and 
traditional sexual identities.

Lissant Bolton's work on gender and ideologies of tradition and 
modernity in Vanuatu might also be relevant.

Bolton, Lissant 2003. Unfolding the Moon: Enacting women's kastom in 
Vanuatu. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.

Bolton's focus is not specifically linguistic, but chapters 3-4 
(Women without kastom; Ples) cover some of Bolton's work on the use 
of vernacular languages vs the national language, and also the role 
of the media (specifically radio) in defining, valorising and 
gendering kastom knowledge.

Hope that is the sort of thing you were after.

chrz, mm
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Miriam Meyerhoff
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