Kava and Prohibition in Tanna, Vanuatu

Gregory, Robert J.; Gregory, Janet E.; Peck, John G.

doi:10.1111/j.1360-0443.1981.tb00236.x

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“…Participants said they bought cigarettes ''whenever they had money'' which, for most, is dependent on participation in Mystery Island tourism activities. Furthermore, chiefs in Aneityum have prohibited alcohol [as observed on other islands-see (Gregory et al, 1981)], but it is available at Mystery Island. Other interview reports might suggest changes in kava use in the future.…”

Section: Substance Usementioning

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Behavioral changes associated with economic development in the South Pacific: Health transition in Vanuatu

Dancause

DeHuff

Soloway

et al. 2011

American J Hum Biol

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Section: Substance Usementioning

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Behavioral changes associated with economic development in the South Pacific: Health transition in Vanuatu

Dancause

DeHuff

Soloway

et al. 2011

American J Hum Biol

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“…Participants said they bought cigarettes “whenever they had money” which, for most, is dependent on participation in Mystery Island tourism activities. Furthermore, chiefs in Aneityum have prohibited alcohol [as observed on other islands—see (Gregory et al,1981)], but it is available at Mystery Island. Other interview reports might suggest changes in kava use in the future.…”

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Radiotherapy alone or combined with carbogen breathing for squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck

Mendenhall

Morris

Amdur

et al. 2005

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Health patterns are changing in developing countries; as diet and activity patterns change with economic development, chronic disease prevalence increases, which is a characteristic of health transition. The islands of Vanuatu (South Pacific) have varying rates of economic development and provide a natural experimental model of health transition. Objectives: To characterize behavioral changes associated with modernization. Methods: We surveyed 425 children and 559 adults on three islands varying in degree of economic development. We assessed diet (24‐h dietary recall), physical activity (mode of transport, work activities, and recreation), substance use, and other behavioral patterns. Results: Spending patterns and access to Western foods followed modernization gradients in our sample, whereas occupational patterns and ownership of technological goods were poor markers of modernization. With increasing economic development, participants consumed more animal proteins and simple carbohydrates. Physical activity levels were high; most participants were active in gardening, and sports were popular, especially in urban areas. However, urban participants spent more time in sedentary recreation. Men's use of alcohol and tobacco increased with economic development, but we observed marked differences in substance use patterns between two rural islands—one with and one without tourism. Conclusions: Economic development in Vanuatu is accompanied by nutrition transition and increased sedentary recreation, although physical activity levels remain high. Differences in substance use patterns between rural islands with and without tourism indicate a need for more research in rural areas. These findings might inform research in other communities in the early stages of health transition. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 2011. © 2011Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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“…This seems to be the case wherever it was also drunk on a regular basis (e.g. Brunton 1989; Gregory, Gregory & Peck 1981; Young 1995). One striking example comes from North Pentecost in the early 1930s, where, following an Episcopal ban of the male status transformation rituals called bolololi (in Bislama, bisnis pig , or ‘business pig’), society became divided into the ‘clean’, Anglican church‐affiliated melmelo and the kava‐‘drinking’ mwinmwinu (see Hilliard 1978; Taylor 2003 a ).…”

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Janus and the siren's call: kava and the articulation of gender and modernity in Vanuatu

Taylor

2010

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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In the South Pacific Islands of Vanuatu, it is often said that ‘Women can't drink kava because kava is a woman, and a woman can't take back a woman’. Such proscriptive reasoning relates to deeply rooted cosmological understandings of fertility, sacred power, and the nature of sexed bodies. They also evoke the fraught situation regarding gender relations and kava‐drinking practice that has emerged through Vanuatu's transition from colonial outpost to independent nation‐state. This article takes an ethno‐historical approach to address critically the complex sense of rupture that infuses everyday kava‐related talk and activity in Vanuatu. In so doing it reveals important insights into the dynamic relationship between ‘kastom and its others’ in both ni‐Vanuatu and academic discourse, across gendered identities, and in embodied practice. Résumé Dans les îles du Vanuatu, dans le Pacifique Sud, on dit souvent que « les femmes ne peuvent pas boire du kava parce que le kava est une femme, et une femme ne peut pas reprendre une femme ». Ces raisonnements prescripteurs sont liés à des notions cosmologiques profondément enracinées de fertilité, de pouvoir sacré et de la nature des corps sexués. Elles évoquent également la situation de tension entourant les relations de genre et la pratique de consommation du kava qui s’est constituée lors du passage du Vanuatu du statut de poste colonial avancéà celui d’État‐nation indépendant. Le présent article décrit sous un angle ethno‐historique critique le sens complexe de la rupture qui imprègne le discours et les activités quotidiens concernant le kava au Vanuatu. Il jette ainsi un important éclairage sur la relation entre « la kastom et ses Autres » dans le discours des ni‐Vanuatu aussi bien que des chercheurs, entre les identités sexuées et dans la pratique incarnée.

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Kava and Prohibition in Tanna, Vanuatu

Cited by 9 publications

References 9 publications

Behavioral changes associated with economic development in the South Pacific: Health transition in Vanuatu

Behavioral changes associated with economic development in the South Pacific: Health transition in Vanuatu

Radiotherapy alone or combined with carbogen breathing for squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck

Janus and the siren's call: kava and the articulation of gender and modernity in Vanuatu

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