Contents
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Figures, Lists and Maps
Introduction
Part I
Washing Away Our Lavalava?
Women, Tradition and Power on Lamotrek Atoll
The Importance of the Lavalava on Lamotrek
Gender Roles and Pictures of Ageing
The Maternal Realm: likoa (baby girl) and saugaaw (baby boy)
Beginning Before Life Starts:
The Practice of Adoption on Lamotrek
“You First Learn to Start the Fire”: Girls’ Chores on Lamotrek
Moving Down, Becoming a Woman
The Value of Women
A Woman Reports
The Value of Teor (Lavalava)
Sovereign Shoabut Tugufaiy (Old Ladies)
Part II
The Place of Faith: A Lamotrekese Case of Landscaping
Landscape as an Area of Unspoiled Nature
Landscape as Cultivated Nature
Lamotrek: Topography and Landscape

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