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Person and Place
- Ideas, Ideals and Practice of Sociality on Vanua Lava, Vanuatu
Engelsk Hardback
Person and Place
- Ideas, Ideals and Practice of Sociality on Vanua Lava, Vanuatu
Engelsk Hardback

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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 wider geographic area but also theoretical fields in anthropology: the relevance and expressions of sociality through kinship, concepts of person, issues about land and cosmology, the kastom debate, and questions about continuity and change. In doing so she provides a snapshot of contemporary notions of personhood.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
252
ISBN-13:
9781845455996
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1845455991
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
1 aug 2009
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
161mm
Højde:
239mm
Forlag:
Berghahn Books
Oplagsdato:
1 aug 2009
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge