Person and Place : Ideas, Ideals and Practice of Sociality on Vanua Lava, Vanuatu.

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 Stra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hess, Sabine C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2009.
Colección:Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific, 2
Temas:
Melanesians > Vanuatu > Social conditions.
Social values > Vanuatu.
Mythology, Pacific Island > Vanuatu.
Mélanésiens > Vanuatu > Conditions sociales.
Valeurs sociales > Vanuatu.
Mythologie océanienne > Vanuatu.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Mythology, Pacific Island
Social conditions
Social values
Vanuatu > Social conditions.
Vanuatu
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (252 pages).
ISBN:9781845459390
1845459393

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