The tree and the canoe : history and ethnography of Tanna /
Joël Bonnemaison ; translated and adapted by Josée Pénot-Demetry.
Bok Engelsk 1994 · Electronic books
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| Utgitt | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , c1994.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (xxi, 368 p. ) : ill. ;
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| Opplysninger | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. - pt. 1. The Invaded Archipelago. 1. On the Path to Myth: Quiros's Great Voyage. 2. Happy "Savages"? 3. Wild Contact. 4. The Gospel and the Kingdom. 5. Catholic Peasant Missionaries and Marginal Churches. 6. "Gone with the Wind" -- pt. 2. Tanna: Stones within Canoes. 7. Isle of Resilience. 8. Enchanted Space. 9. Society of the Stones. 10. Society of the Hawk. 11. At War. 12. The Return of Magic -- pt. 3. Fighting on the Island. 13. The Pagans' Resistance. 14. John Frum People. 15. The Bible Revisited. 16. Kastom and Nation. 17. The Revolt. 18. The Meaning of Tanna's Kastom. 19. Conclusion: The Men Ples -- Selected Works by Joel Bonnemaison.. - Swooping down on the world like a scythe, westernization has devastated local cultures and made uniformity commonplace. The Pacific islands sustained the shock with a force perhaps unequaled anywhere else in the world. Their limited size and small population, coupled with the violent epidemics that took thousands of lives, lowered Islanders' ability to resist. To keep the external world at bay, they had to create a world of their own.. - This personal observation of Tanna, an island in the southern part of the Vanuatu archipelago, presents an extraordinary case study of cultural resistance. Based on interviews, myths and stories collected in the field, and archival research, The Tree and the Canoe analyzes the resilience of the people of Tanna, who, when faced with an intense form of cultural contact that threatened to engulf them, liberated themselves by re-creating, and sometimes reinventing, their own kastom. Following a lengthy history of Tanna from European contact, the author discusses in detail original creation myths and how Tanna people revived them in response to changes brought by missionaries and foreign governments. The final chapters of the book deal with the violent opposition of part of the island population to the newly established National Unity government.. - Ultimately Tanna's story may well be a living symbol of resistance for people throughout Oceania. Are they truly convinced that the roads constructed by the west are the right ones? Do they not persist in dreaming about their own paths? The study of world cultures can still surprise us, for the tide may be changing.
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| Emner | Human geography - Vanuatu
Tanna (Ni-Vanuatu people) - History. Tanna (Vanuatuan people) - Cultural assimilation Tanna (Vanuatuan people) - Government relations Vis mer... Tanna (Vanuatuan people) - History
Vanuatu - Discovery and exploration Vanuatu - History Vanuatu - Social life and customs History & Archaeology Regions & Countries - Australia & Pacific Islands - Oceania vanuatu kastom kulturkontakt antropologi etnografi sosialantropologi melanesia oceania historie geografi |
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| ISBN | 0824815254
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