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House-Girls Remember : Domestic Workers in Vanuatu by Margaret Rodman Critchlow; Daniela Kraemer; Lissant Bolton; Jean Tarisesei is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Giving voice to the women who worked as maids--known as "house-girls" in the Pacific islands of Vanuatu--is the goal of this innovative work. It is a unique collaborative project with contributions from twenty-one indigenous and four expatriate women. Although women's history is a popular topic globally, Pacific island women have had few opportunities to conduct research and publish in this field. The book is contextualized within literature on domestic workers and current anthropological theory, but the focus is on the words of the indigenous women themselves. Methodologically, its collaborative approach demonstrates possibilities for redefining post-colonial research. In 1990, Lissant Bolton (from Australia) and Jean Tarisesei (from Vanuatu) developed a program that trained women to be anthropological fieldworkers, encouraging them not only to develop research skills and an interest in women's cultural practices, but also to explore their own colonial history and contribute to a larger research project.The stories the women tell resonate with the experiences of domestic workers around the world; their histories contribute to theorizing intimacy and traveling culture; and their s

Who reads House-Girls Remember : Domestic Workers in Vanuatu?

Author

Margaret Rodman Critchlow; Daniela Kraemer; Lissant Bolton; Jean Tarisesei

Publisher

University of Hawai'i Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824862879

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Anthropology, History