Download or read book Married to Melanesia written by Muriel Jones and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘We were married after three years at opposite ends of the world.... We then, too rapidly for comfort, made off in a snowstorm for the South Seas.... All this we imprudently did in our late forties.’ Thus Muriel Jones introduces her account, originally published in 1974, of how she came to start her married life in the Solomon Islands, ‘whose impact was traumatic, perhaps just because we were not in our first youth or innocent of other tropical experience’. ‘St Peter’s College was the only thing at Siota’; there was no store and the only post office on the island ‘was so difficult of access that I never visited it ... we ourselves did most of the postal business – quite informally – at our end of the island’. It is not surprising that even high-ranking visitors tended to arrive looking like ship-wrecked sailors. ‘If one was ill enough to see a doctor one was, on the whole, too ill to be subjected to several hours of sun or rain in an open boat and a probable night en route.’ There is, too, the account of the old lady whose family, on her death, wanted to bury her in a coffin instead of the customary mat. ‘Poor old lady; at the end of all these exertions, the coffin with her in it stood in the church for the funeral, uneasily supported on two rickety small tables from our sitting room, mutely exhorting us to STOW AWAY FROM BOILERS.’ Muriel Jones tells the unusual story of her five Melanesian years, of the impact of Christianity on a pagan people, of her husband’s college and its move to another island, of the students, the islands and their animals and exotic vegetation, of the islanders (nine-tenths of whom live in communities ranging from twenty to two hundred people) and of their changing way of life. Her story takes one about as far as it is possible to go from an urban civilisation and in telling it she reveals the resources of her own character.

Download or read book Marriage in Melanesia written by Ennio Mantovani and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Dual Organization and the Regulation of Marriage in Melanesia written by Dorothy Mary Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Marriage and Family Life in Melanesia written by Darrell L. Whiteman and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sexual Life of Savages in North western Melanesia written by Bronislaw Malinowski and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sexual Life of Savages in North western Melanesia written by Bronislaw Malinowski and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The History of the Melanesian Mission written by E. S. Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Polynesian Missions in Melanesia written by Marjorie Tuainekore Crocombe and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 1982 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Prophets of Melanesia written by G. W. Trompf and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 1977 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sexual Life of Savages in North western Melanesia written by Bronislaw Malinowski and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an ethnographic account of courtship, marriage and family life among the people of the Trobriand Islands.

Download or read book The Light of Melanesia written by Henry Hutchinson Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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