The Other Side : : Ways of Being and Place in Vanuatu / / John Patrick Taylor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Taylor, John Patrick,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Pacific Islands Monographs Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (226 p.) :; 29 b&w images, 7 line drawings, 3 maps

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 analyses engage with broader concerns relating to colonial and postcolonial identities, political economy, and globalization in island Melanesia.The Other Side combines original and substantial ethnography with sophisticated theoretical reflection that will appeal broadly across the field of anthropology. It will also be of considerable value to scholars of Pacific and Melanesian history, politics, and society. The clear writing and entertaining narrative combine to create a work that is accessible to a wide audience. The volume's critical and reflective analysis of anthropological research makes it a valuable teaching aid in courses that focus on ethnographic methods and writing. Students in Pacific anthropology will find it especially useful.37

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Ways of the Place -- Part One: Intimate Histories -- 1. Locating the Anthropologist, Defining the Field -- 2. The Story of Jimmy -- 3. The Ways of the Land-Tree: Sia Raga Cosmography -- Part Two: Intimations of Structure -- 4. Fluid Technologies: Paths of Relationship, Spirals of Exchange -- 5. Shifting Habitats and Dynamics of Space: Gender and the Sacred in Sia Raga Social Practice -- 6. Sia Raga Architectonics: Knowledge and Agency of Houses -- Epilogue: And Still They Go to the Moon -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index -- other volumes in the pacific islands monograph series -- About the Author