Author: Caitlin Scholl
Publisher: Institute of Pacific Studies
Keywords: abiding, land, vanua, mocemoce
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2006-08-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 9820203767
ISBN-13: 9789820203761

Within sight of a smart new resort near Savusavu on the Fijian island of Vanua Levu, over a period of twenty-four hours, local villagers work, love, laugh and parley their lives while interweaving their long-held traditions with contemporary practice. In the same time and place, a visiting scientist notes and ponders the threatened environment, and a young girl seeks answers for her future from the people and from the ancient raintree, repository of universal wisdoms. In this lyrical first novel, Caitlin Scholl, with echoes of the rhythms and resonance of Dylan Thomas’ classic Und

Author: Sabine C. Hess
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: person, vanuatu, space, memory, pacific, contemporary, lava, vanua, place, ideas, ideals, practice, sociality
Number of Pages: 237
Published: 2009-07-30
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 1845455991
ISBN-13: 9781845455996

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, d