Person and Place: Ideas, Ideals and the Practice of Sociality on Vanua Lava, Vanuatu (Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific, 2)

Author: Sabine C. Hess
Title: Person and Place: Ideas, Ideals and the Practice of Sociality on Vanua Lava, Vanuatu (Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific, 2)
Publication: Berghahn Books, 2009

Description: Hardcover. New hardcover in matte printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 8vo. (6.25 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches) Includes B&W photos, figures, and an index. 252 pp.

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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.

Seller ID: 203562

Subject: Anthropology, World History


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