Staying Fijian Vatulele Island Barkcloth and Social Identity
	Quantity in Basket: none Code: ISBN 9781863333023 Price: $59.95 Author: Rod Ewins Country: Fiji Date Published: 2009 Pages: 402 Hardback: Yes Paperback: Yes Illustrated: Yes Colour: Yes Index: Yes Glossary: Yes
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Barkcloth or 'masi' is the traditional art for of the women of Vatulele Island. Its manufacture continues to flourish, even increase, while many other arts are declining, despite the fact that most of its functional roles have been usurped by Western cloth and paper. This book explores this apparent paradox, and concludes that the reasons lie in the ability of its identity functions to buffer the effects of social stress. This is so for not only Vatuleleans but all Fijians.