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Person and Place: Ideas, Ideals and Practice of Sociality on Vanua Lava, Vanuatu
Sabine Hess
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Description for Person and Place: Ideas, Ideals and Practice of Sociality on Vanua Lava, Vanuatu
Hardback. 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. Series: Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific. Num Pages: 272 pages, 23 ills, 2 maps, 13 tables, 8 figs. BIC Classification: 1MKLV; JFC; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
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's claim that the Melanesian person is a dividual by and large holds for the Vanua Lavan person. But Vanua Lavans have also been exposed to, and creatively engaged with, what can be summarised under the term 'Western individualism'. The author draws together several themes, discourses and conversations which concern Vanuatu specifically, the Pacific as a ... Read more
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's claim that the Melanesian person is a dividual by and large holds for the Vanua Lavan person. But Vanua Lavans have also been exposed to, and creatively engaged with, what can be summarised under the term 'Western individualism'. The author draws together several themes, discourses and conversations which concern Vanuatu specifically, the Pacific as a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Series
Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845455996
SKU
V9781845455996
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99-15
About Sabine Hess
Sabine Hess was awarded a Ph.D. from the Australian National University in Canberra and is currently teaching Anthropology at the Institute fur Ethnologie, University of Heidelberg. She is also working on an interdisciplinary project to document two endangered languages of Vanua Lava, Vanuatu, funded by the VW Foundation.
Reviews for Person and Place: Ideas, Ideals and Practice of Sociality on Vanua Lava, Vanuatu
...the book's most admirable qualities are evident when Hess allows her ethnographic description to develop, in the attention she gives to vernacular narrative and linguistic analysis, and in the commitment that she gives to engaging with Vanua-Lavan sociality within a flux of historical change.
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