Taylor, John Patrick,

The other side : ways of being and place in Vanuatu / John Patrick Taylor. - xiv, 238 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. - Pacific Islands monograph series ; 22 . - Pacific islands monograph series ; no. 22. .

"Center for Pacific Islands Studies, School of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa.".

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-227) and index.

Prologue -- Ways of the Place -- Intimate Histories -- Locating the Anthropologist, Defining the Field -- The Story of Jimmy -- The Ways of the Land-Tree: Sia Raga Cosmography -- Intimations of Structure -- Fluid Technologies: Paths of Relationship, Spirals of Exchange -- Shifting Habitats and Dynamics of Space: Gender and the Sacred in Sia Raga Social Practice -- Sia Raga Architectonics: Knowledge and Agency of Houses -- Epilogue: And Still They Go to the Moon. Pt. 1. 1. 2. 3. Pt. 2. 4. 5. 6.

0824833023 9780824833022

2008012320


Hano (Ni-Vanuatu people)--Social life and customs
Hano language--Social aspects
Ethnology--Fieldwork--Vanuatu--Pentecost Island


Pentecost Island (Vanuatu)--Social life and customs

GN671.N6 / T39 2008

306.099595