Craft Traditions
Embroidery that says where you are from
In many traditions, a stitched garment identified a village, a marital status and a family, and could be read by anyone who knew the vocabulary.
Topic
identity
Every Kohopoho article tagged identity — 2 pieces across 2 sections.
Language & Words
What a name tells you, and who gets to give one
Naming systems encode kinship, geography, occupation and religion, and the modern assumption that everyone has a fixed first name and a fixed surname is unusual rather than natural.