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