WOMEN'S WORK: A CASE STUDY OF PROLETARIANIZATION OF PERI-URBAN VILLAGERS IN VANUATU

This study focuses on peri-urban women in Vanuatu from 1972 to 1983 in order to measure the impact of a greater participation of women in the labour market, an increase in the number of consensual unions in the village, and the changing pattern of female migration. Not unexpectedly, these result in a loosening of ties between some villagers and village land. What matters even more is that such a loss of land rights endangers the ideological reproduction of this hybrid sociological form in Melanesia. In effect, peri-urban villagers walk an ideological tightrope. What remains of their subsistence economy generates a corporate ideology under the form of discourses on the virtue of communality, and this is what distinguishes and preserves the village social field from that of the town. A loss of land rights may well lead to a questioning of communality and a realization of the hegemonic nature of the ideology of social undifferentiation.     

Cultural Life Colorful FOR VILLAGERS

Amedium wave 3-kw relaystation was built inNyingchi Prefecture in1975, enabling local peopleto watch television for the first time.Over the past 25 years, the prefecture has gained much ground in theradio broadcasting and TV industries.The Nyingchi Prefectural Relay Stationwas set up in September 1985. TheNyingchi Prefectural Cultural, Radioand TV Bureau and the Nyingchi Prefectural Film Distribution Co. were setup in 1987.By the end of 1999, the prefectureboasted one TV relay statio…     

TIBETAN PIGS IN NYINGCHI BRING WEALTH TO VILLAGERS

<正>Nyingchi City situated at the southeast of Tibet is known for its Tibetan pigs,selling pork contributes a key part of the villagers'family income.The pork of the Tibetan pigs is more expensive than the common pork in the markets,because it is believed with better taste and good for health.In many Tibetan farming areas and especially in the eastern Nyingchi,normally,each family raises ten to fifteen Tibetan pigs.It is called the Tibetan pigs,because the pig breed was said to be domesticated from wild boar,according to local Tibetans.     

国内旅游：重新认识与发展构想

多年来,国内旅游业服务质量低,设施条件差,潜在市场不能及时转化为现实市场。本文分析了制约国内旅游业发展的因素和国内旅游市场的潜力,提出国内旅游业的发展构想。