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The Other Side

The Other Side

Ways of Being and Place in Vanuatu

by John Patrick Taylor
Hardback
Publication Date: 30/07/2008

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The Other Side is the first major ethnographic and historical study of the Sia Raga people of north Pentecost Island, a region that was home to the late Father Walter Lini, Vanuatu's first prime minister. Exploring Raga social, spatial, and historical consciousness, this richly poetic account provides important theoretical contributions to ongoing debates in Pacific anthropology about the relation between structure and history, and place and time. It reveals important insights into the convergence of indigenous and exogenous cosmologies and hegemonies historically, and shows how these are implicated in contemporary social, ritual, and material cultural expressions. These analysis engage with broader concerns relating to colonial and postcolonial identities, political economy, and globalization in island Melanesia.
ISBN:
9780824833022
9780824833022
Category:
Anthropology
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
30-07-2008
Publisher:
University of Hawai'i Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
288
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x20mm
Weight:
0.55kg

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