The Invention of Convention
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3914960 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joan Larcom (Mount Holyoke College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 330-337 |
| Publication date | 2009-02-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mankind (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-2328 • E-ISSN: 2204-2121 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1835-9310.1982.tb00998.x |
| OpenAlex | W2041574221 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 5 |
The traditional past of the people of South-West Bay, Malekula, featured a great deal of cultural borrowing. Like most Christians in Vanuatu, their negative attitude to a 'pagan' past has been changed into one of positive interest by the recent national emphasis on kastorn. Their older perception of kastorn as commodity - knowledge, rituals, objects, etc. to be bought, sold or exchanged at will - has been supplemented by the more wide- spread notion of kastom as a stable body of traditions, unshared as well as shared. The validatory potential of kastorn is being realized as people re-evaluate and reinvent their past, exploiting lacunae in customary knowledge by imaginative citation of the written ethnographic word. Contemporary needs are apparently more effectively satisfied by reference to fixed truths rather than to fluid and dynamic representations of culture
Aesthetics · Art · Business · Citation · Commodity · Convention · Epistemology · Ethnography · Perception · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Philosophy
Ancestral Vigilance and the Corrective Conscience
Tabu, MPA and community
Performing Culture in the Global Village
MelanesianKastomand Its Transformations
Traditional rulers and development administration
Rethinking Kastom
Custom and the Way of the Land
Not the way it really was
From Prestige Goods to Legacies
Ambrymese Dreams and the Mardu Dreaming
Looking Several Ways
Copyright in context
Grammars of the South Pacific
Culture and Identity in the South Pacific
Chinese Minority Policy and the Meaning of Minority Culture
The Politics of Tradition
National Identity and the Problem of Kastom in Vanuatu
The geo‐classifications of colonial statelessness
Totem and Transaction
Enracinement de l’identité
Missionization, Material Culture Collecting, and Nineteenth-Century Representations in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu)
Empowering Place
The Making of the Maori
Property and Ownership in Vanuatu
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,59 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2021 (37) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |