Grandmothers, Grass Skirts and a Little Piece of Paradise
| dc.contributor.author | Zeplin, P.J. | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
| dc.description.abstract | She could never imagine that a garish grass skirt could come to mean so much. It emerged from under a winter raincoat hanging on a coat hook in the hallway of her home and must have been there, she realised, for more than a decade. In that moment of re-discovering this piece of cheap tourist kitsch, she smiled, remembering how it came to define a very special relationship during one of the happiest times in her life. This was a relationship between a toddler and a woman of a certain age. The little grass skirt may have been incidental to the deeper bond between them but for her, it was deeply imbued with memories and stories that belied its tatty raffia reality. The garment conjured up a very personal Pacific; of desire and dancing and a kind of bodily enchantment—precisely those taboo qualities of paradisiacal 'otherness' bedevilling this region for centuries. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Intersections : Gender, History & the Asian Context, 2011; (27) | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1440-9151 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.8/137729 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Australian National University | |
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| dc.source.uri | http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue27/zeplin.htm | |
| dc.subject | pacific | |
| dc.subject | dance | |
| dc.subject | genealogy | |
| dc.subject | sexuality | |
| dc.subject | gender | |
| dc.subject | grandparenting | |
| dc.title | Grandmothers, Grass Skirts and a Little Piece of Paradise | |
| dc.type | Journal article | |
| pubs.publication-status | Published | |
| ror.mmsid | 9915909381901831 |