The other side : ways of being and place in Vanuatu / John Patrick Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, John Patrick.

Contributor:

University of Hawaii at Manoa. Center for Pacific Islands Studies.

Series:

Pacific islands monograph series ; no. 22.

Pacific Islands monograph series ; 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hano (Ni-Vanuatu people)--Social life and customs.

Hano (Ni-Vanuatu people).

Hano language--Social aspects.

Hano language.

Ethnology--Fieldwork--Vanuatu--Pentecost Island.

Ethnology.

Ethnology--Fieldwork.

Social aspects.

Manners and customs.

Pentecost Island (Vanuatu)--Social life and customs.

Pentecost Island (Vanuatu).

Vanuatu--Pentecost Island.

Physical Description:

xiv, 238 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2008]

Contents:

Locating the anthropologist, defining the field

The story of Jimmy

The ways of the land-tree: Sia Raga cosmography

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.

Notes:

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

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

ISBN:

9780824833022

0824833023

OCLC:

220419878