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The Other Side: Ways of Being and Place in Vanuatu (Pacific Islands Monograph Series) by John Patrick Taylor; University of Hawaii at Manoa is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 provides important theoretical contributions to ongoing debates in Pacific anthropology about the relation between structure and history, and place and time. It reveals important insights into the convergence of indigenous and exogenous cosmologies and hegemonies historically, and shows how these are implicated in contemporary social, ritual, and material cultural expressions. These analyses engage with broader concerns relating to colonial and postcolonial identities, political economy, and globalization in island Melanesia. The Other Side combines original and substantial ethnography with sophisticated theoretical reflection that will appeal broadly across the field of anthropology. It will also be of considerable value to scholars of Pacific and Melanesian history, politics, and society. The clear writing and entertaining narrative combine to create a work that is accessible to a wide audi

Who reads The Other Side: Ways of Being and Place in Vanuatu (Pacific Islands Monograph Series)?

Author

John Patrick Taylor; University of Hawaii at Manoa

Publisher

Center for Pacific Islands Studies (University of Hawai‘i Press)

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824864903

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Science, Anthropology