The Other Side: Ways of Being and Place in Vanuatu 9780824864903
The Other Side is the first major ethnographic and historical study of the Sia Raga people of north Pentecost Island, a
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English Pages 254 Year 2008
Table of contents :
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Ways of the Place
Part One: Intimate Histories
1. Locating the Anthropologist, Defining the Field
2. The Story of Jimmy
3. The Ways of the Land-Tree: Sia Raga Cosmography
Part Two: Intimations of Structure
4. Fluid Technologies: Paths of Relationship, Spirals of Exchange
5. Shifting Habitats and Dynamics of Space: Gender and the Sacred in Sia Raga Social Practice
6. Sia Raga Architectonics: Knowledge and Agency of Houses
Epilogue: And Still They Go to the Moon
Notes
Glossary
References
Index
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