Person and Place : : Ideas, Ideals and Practice of Sociality on Vanua Lava, Vanuatu / / Sabine Hess.

Concerned with contemporary notions of personhood and the relationship between persons and places, this book, presents a detailed insight into the Vanua Lavan’s engagement with modernity, and examines how they relate to the past, make sense of the present and anticipate the future. Marilyn Strathern...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (252 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Figures, Maps and Tables
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Maps
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Sociality: Ideas, Ideals and Practice
  • Chapter 2 Person
  • Chapter 3 Life Cycles
  • Chapter 4 Being in Place
  • Chapter 5 Talking about Place
  • Chapter 6 Church and kastom: An Old Couple
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Appendix C
  • Index