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Une pirogue pour le Paradis: Le culte de John Frum à Tanna (Vanuatu) (review)

Une pirogue pour le Paradis: Le culte de John Frum à Tanna (Vanuatu) (review) book and media reviews 389 Third, haosgels’ stories are suffused more theoretical refl ection in relation with stories of sexual pressure from to questions posed by the broader lit- male employers. Uwan’s story is not erature on gender and domestic work. unique; there are many accounts here For example, why have domestic of colonial mastas who had sexual servants been predominantly women relations with domestic servants in Vanuatu, at least since World War and other ni-Vanuatu women (60ff, II (unlike many parts of colonial 96 – 97). Some women reported living Papua New Guinea and Africa)? in fear of their colonial mastas, which What are the differences between would have surely increased the lat- indentured and waged domestic work ter’s coercive potential. Other women and between concepts of value in acknowledged that they preferred commodity and kastom economies? to work in the fi elds rather than the How salient was Christian conversion house to avoid such risks. But some in transforming models of families, also reported successfully refusing households, and domestic work? sex, sometimes by quitting work (59, How might the material on contem- 68). More consensual sexual relations porary domestic work in this Pacifi c developed between some http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Contemporary Pacific University of Hawai'I Press

Une pirogue pour le Paradis: Le culte de John Frum à Tanna (Vanuatu) (review)

Mondragón, Carlos.
The Contemporary Pacific , Volume 21 (2) – Aug 29, 2009
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book and media reviews 389 Third, haosgels’ stories are suffused more theoretical refl ection in relation with stories of sexual pressure from to questions posed by the broader lit- male employers. Uwan’s story is not erature on gender and domestic work. unique; there are many accounts here For example, why have domestic of colonial mastas who had sexual servants been predominantly women relations with domestic servants in Vanuatu, at least since World War and other ni-Vanuatu women (60ff, II (unlike many parts of colonial 96 – 97). Some women reported living Papua New Guinea and Africa)? in fear of their colonial mastas, which What are the differences between would have surely increased the lat- indentured and waged domestic work ter’s coercive potential. Other women and between concepts of value in acknowledged that they preferred commodity and kastom economies? to work in the fi elds rather than the How salient was Christian conversion house to avoid such risks. But some in transforming models of families, also reported successfully refusing households, and domestic work? sex, sometimes by quitting work (59, How might the material on contem- 68). More consensual sexual relations porary domestic work in this Pacifi c developed between some

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Published: Aug 29, 2009

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