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Place and the politics of marriageBook 2000 • Larcom, Joan Clayton
Malekula • Oceania > Melanesia
This dissertation examines the effects of colonization and missionization on Mewun society. Larcom discusses the nature of the changes brought to bear on the Mewun by missionaries and others, particularly in regard to transformations of the marriage ...The invention of conventionarticle 1982 • Larcom, Joan Clayton
Malekula • Oceania > Melanesia
In this article Larcom …'explores the deployment of an apparently simple art object, the wooden slit-gong…as part of a complex cluster of symbols known as KASTOM (Bislama: custom, tradition). These symbols act as political icons of invention and conv...