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2007-01-01
Paper published in Pacific Arts, vol 3, pp115-127 (2007). Abstract: Commoner women’s textile-work is a key medium in the ongoing process of hybridizing Tongan culture for the contemporary ‘modernity plus tradition’ present. One set of wefts for this paper are ethnographic. Commoner women’s...
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2011
Etymology and literary exegesis are of a special significance as far as reading and translating Oliver Twist is concerned. In the first place, Dickens makes the most of the ressources of the English language by using, as a stylistic device, the various etymological roots of the vocabulary he has...
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2007-01-01
Young-Leslie, Heather, Addo, Ping-Ann
Introductory essay to special issue of Pacific Arts journal, "Pacific Textiles, Pacific Cultures: Hybridity and Pragmatic Creativity". We introduce the concept of 'pragmatic creativity' as a counter to the discourses that situate handicrafts or bricolage as somehow second rate forms of creative...