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What works have you found useful at this intersection?<br>
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Looking forward to hearing about works I may not know.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Niko<br>
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Niko Besnier<br>
Professor of Cultural Anthropology, University of
Amsterdam</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Adjunct Professor of Anthropology,
University of Hawai'i at Manoa</blockquote>
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<div>Dear Niko,</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Dureau, Christine 1998. From sisters to wives: changing contexts
of maternity on Simbo, Western Solomon Islands. In Kalpana Ram &
Margaret Jolly (eds)<i> Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and
postcolonial experiences in Asia and the Pacfic</i>. Cambridge: CUP
239-274.</div>
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<div>Jackson, Peter A. 1997. Kathoey><Gay><Man: The
historical emergence of gay male identity in Thailand. In Lenore
Manderson & Margaret Jolly (eds)<i> Sites of Desire: Economies of
Pleasure: Sexualities in Asia and the Pacific.</i> Chicago/London:
University of Chicago Press. 166-190.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Lissant Bolton's work on gender and ideologies of tradition and
modernity in Vanuatu might also be relevant.</div>
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<div>Bolton, Lissant 2003.<i> Unfolding the Moon: Enacting women's
kastom in Vanuatu.</i> Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Hope that is the sort of thing you were after.</div>
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<div>chrz, mm</div>
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