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Book Tanna Times

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lamont Lindstrom
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2020-10-31
  • ISBN : 0824886682
  • Pages : 189 pages

Download or read book Tanna Times written by Lamont Lindstrom and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologists like to tell other people’s stories but local experts tell them even better. This book introduces the vibrant living culture and fascinating history of Tanna, an island in Vanuatu, Melanesia, through the stories of a dozen interconnected Tanna Islanders. Tracing the past 250 years of island experiences that cross the globe, each of these distinctly extraordinary lives tells larger human narratives of cultural continuity and change. In following Tanna’s times, we find that all of us, even those living on seemingly out-of-the-way Pacific Islands, are firmly linked into the world’s networks. Each chapter opens with a telling life story then contextualizes that biography with pertinent ethnographic explanation and archival research. Since 1774, Tanna Islanders have participated in events that have captured global anthropological and popular attention. These include receiving British explorer James Cook; a nineteenth-century voyage to London; troubled relations with early Christian missionaries; overseas emigration for plantation labor; the innovation of the John Frum Movement, a so-called Melanesian “cargo cult”; service in American military labor corps during the Pacific War; agitation in the 1970s for an independent Vanuatu; urban migration to seek work in Port Vila (Vanuatu’s capital); the international kava business; juggling arranged versus love marriages; and modern dealings with social media and swelling numbers of tourists. Yet, partly as a consequence of their experience abroad, Islanders fiercely protect their cultural identity and continue to maintain resilient bonds with their Tanna homes. Drawing on forty years of fieldwork in Vanuatu, author Lamont Lindstrom offers rich insights into the culture of Tanna. His close relationship with the island’s people is reflected in his choice to feature their voices; he celebrates and recounts their stories here in accessible, engaging prose. An ethnographic case study written for students of anthropology, the author has included a concise list of key sources and essential further readings suggestions at the end of each chapter. Tanna Times complements classroom and scholarly interests in kinship and marriage, economics, politics, religion, history, linguistics, gender and personhood, and social transformation in Melanesia and beyond.

Book Tanna Times

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lamont Lindstrom
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2021-03-31
  • ISBN : 0824886674
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Tanna Times written by Lamont Lindstrom and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologists like to tell other people’s stories but local experts tell them even better. This book introduces the vibrant living culture and fascinating history of Tanna, an island in Vanuatu, Melanesia, through the stories of a dozen interconnected Tanna Islanders. Tracing the past 250 years of island experiences that cross the globe, each of these distinctly extraordinary lives tells larger human narratives of cultural continuity and change. In following Tanna’s times, we find that all of us, even those living on seemingly out-of-the-way Pacific Islands, are firmly linked into the world’s networks. Each chapter opens with a telling life story then contextualizes that biography with pertinent ethnographic explanation and archival research. Since 1774, Tanna Islanders have participated in events that have captured global anthropological and popular attention. These include receiving British explorer James Cook; a nineteenth-century voyage to London; troubled relations with early Christian missionaries; overseas emigration for plantation labor; the innovation of the John Frum Movement, a so-called Melanesian “cargo cult”; service in American military labor corps during the Pacific War; agitation in the 1970s for an independent Vanuatu; urban migration to seek work in Port Vila (Vanuatu’s capital); the international kava business; juggling arranged versus love marriages; and modern dealings with social media and swelling numbers of tourists. Yet, partly as a consequence of their experience abroad, Islanders fiercely protect their cultural identity and continue to maintain resilient bonds with their Tanna homes. Drawing on forty years of fieldwork in Vanuatu, author Lamont Lindstrom offers rich insights into the culture of Tanna. His close relationship with the island’s people is reflected in his choice to feature their voices; he celebrates and recounts their stories here in accessible, engaging prose. An ethnographic case study written for students of anthropology, the author has included a concise list of key sources and essential further readings suggestions at the end of each chapter. Tanna Times complements classroom and scholarly interests in kinship and marriage, economics, politics, religion, history, linguistics, gender and personhood, and social transformation in Melanesia and beyond.

Book The Expository Times

Download or read book The Expository Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Expository Times

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  • Author : [Anonymus AC01084301]
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1890
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book The Expository Times written by [Anonymus AC01084301] and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Jewish Time Line Encyclopedia

Download or read book The Jewish Time Line Encyclopedia written by Mattis Kantor and published by Jason Aronson, Incorporated. This book was released on 1993-12-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kantor writes from the perspective of a traditional Jew, covering events such as the Flood, giving of the Torah, and the fall of the Tower of Babel, placing these within the chronology of history along with the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel.

Book Ethnology of Vanuatu

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  • Author : Felix Speiser
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 1996-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780824818746
  • Pages : 736 pages

Download or read book Ethnology of Vanuatu written by Felix Speiser and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in German in 1923, this work records much of Vanuatu's early material culture. It is the result of two years of field work by Swiss anthropologist Felix Speiser between 1910 and 1912. Speiser attempted to collect everything that could still be obtained of the objects constituting Vanuatu's native culture. Ethnology of Vanuatu presents culturally and historically significant photographs and drawings by Speiser assembled during the expedition, along with color photos taken in the Basel Museum, which, taken together, represent the Speiser collection. Through the use of Speiser's collection of cultural photographs and illustrations, it has been possible to revive certain art forms thought to have already vanished.

Book The Tree and the Canoe

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  • Author : Joël Bonnemaison
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 1994-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780824815257
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book The Tree and the Canoe written by Joël Bonnemaison and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Labor of Love

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  • Author : Kristen Ethridge
  • Publisher : Laurel Lock Publishing
  • Release : 2022-01-31
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Labor of Love written by Kristen Ethridge and published by Laurel Lock Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read a Complete Christian Romance Series from a USA Today Bestselling Small Town Romance Author Gloria Garcia Rodriguez has always cherished her independent streak--an approaching hurricane and she has one very pregnant patient are proving to be more than she can handle. Evacuations ahead of the storm mean that the only person in Port Provident Gloria can turn to is Chief Rigo Vasquez--the man she holds responsible for the death of her husband. Gloria's desperate phone call opens the door for Rigo to make things right with his first love, but will his labor of love to keep Gloria and her patient safe be enough to rebuild their future once the storm passes? Start reading Labor of Love to find hope, heart, and happily-ever-after today! USA Today bestselling romance author Kristen Ethridge brings readers home to Port Provident, Texas for the Home to Love Romance series—sweet escape romances full of hope, heart and happily-ever-after. These clean romance novels with a light, uplifting thread of faith and love will sweep you up in the story and leave you with a smile. Labor of Love is the third novel in the Home to Love Romance series, although all the books in the Port Provident world and this complete book series can be read as a standalone. This is a sweet romance book with Christian romance themes and a guaranteed happily-ever-after. Enjoy the complete Home to Love Romance series! Language of Love Legacy of Love Labor of Love KEYWORDS: complete romance series, happily ever after, love books, love stories, romantic novels, small town romance, beach romance, enemies to lovers, guaranteed HEA, new beginnings, no cliffhangers, bargain romance books, best beach reads, bargain romance novels, christian romance novels, sweet romance novels, series books, Christian romance ebooks free, beach romance series, small town romance friends to lovers, new romance book releases, best selling authors new releases

Book Clan a  Thirteen

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1434976149
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Clan a Thirteen written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Houses Far From Home

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  • Author : Margaret Rodman Critchlow
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2001-03-01
  • ISBN : 0824841646
  • Pages : 263 pages

Download or read book Houses Far From Home written by Margaret Rodman Critchlow and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The houses far from home featured in this book are located in Vanuatu, a chain of islands between Fiji and Australia in the southwest Pacific. Once known as the Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides, the islands were jointly administered by the British and French from 1906 to 1980. In this innovative and revealing study of a unique colonial project, Margaret Rodman tells the stories of these houses, exploring the profound differences of perspective, experience, and power that domestic spaces reveal and offering a novel look at the history of British colonialism in the Pacific. Each chapter has at its heart a house where readers can explore dimensions of race, gender, and power that domestic spaces reveal. Moving across time, between different islands and actors, between oral memories and archival documents, Margaret Rodman provides a richly documented "multi-sited ethnography" of the social history of the New Hebrides.

Book Finders Keepers

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  • Author : Robert Trouble Johnson
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2017-01-20
  • ISBN : 1365696804
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Finders Keepers written by Robert Trouble Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a young and in love couple decide they want to share their own apartment. their plans for happily ever after are interrupted when they stumble upon a stash that was left behind by the previous tenants. The couple goes from rags to riches and then the drama unfolds when a posse of vicious Jamaicans return for their misplaced stash. can three beautiful women take on the ruthless Jamaicans and live to tell about it?

Book The Trespasser

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  • Author : Tana French
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 0670026336
  • Pages : 466 pages

Download or read book The Trespasser written by Tana French and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Detective Antoinette Conway and her partner Stephen Moran work a seemingly routine investigation of a lovers' quarrel gone bad, they discover the case isn't as by-the-numbers as they thought.

Book Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle

Download or read book Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Single Dad Next Door

Download or read book The Single Dad Next Door written by Jessica Keller and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Comes Home All Maggie West has ever wanted is a family to call her own. But her new neighbor, single dad Kellen Ashby, is definitely not the man to make that dream come true. His daughters are sweet and silly, the kind of kids Maggie used to imagine having herself. But Kellen has just inherited the inn Maggie manages—her former family home—and the two butt heads at almost every turn. He's handsome, and clearly a devoted father, but with all the changes taking place, Maggie worries she may soon be jobless, homeless or both. At war with her emotions, Maggie will have to decide what truly matters—heart or home.

Book Seven Years in Sodom

Download or read book Seven Years in Sodom written by Gary Paul Lukas and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SEVEN YEARS IN SODOM SEVEN FRANCISCO, AN URBAN MISSION REVEALS: - A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF AN URBAN MISSIONARY AND HIS FAMILY. - A HISTORY OF THE CITY AND ITS CHURCHES - A RISE AND FALL OF MANY. - A PLANTING OF A CHURCH - A PATHWAY FEW WOULD DARE TROD. - A DIVIDED CITY - A CHOICE AND A CALL. - A LOOK AT ITS BEAUTY AND ITS DARKSIDE. - A VIEW OF THE CITY'S HEART OR PERHAPS THAT OF A NATION. - A FAITHFUL GOD IN THE MIDST OF HIS PEOPLE. AS TOLD BY THE FORMER "CHAPLAIN OF BROADWAY"

Book Legacy of Love

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  • Author : Kristen Ethridge
  • Publisher : Laurel Lock Publishing
  • Release : 2022-01-31
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 99 pages

Download or read book Legacy of Love written by Kristen Ethridge and published by Laurel Lock Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read a Complete Christian Romance Series from a USA Today Bestselling Small Town Romance Author Samantha Spaeth has spent her life conquering her fears. The Director of the Port Provident Historical Society isn’t afraid of anything, except the fact that she is running out of time to save one of the island’s most historic landmarks before it succumbs to development by a big-box store. The black sheep of the island’s oldest family, Whitt Peoples knows this Christmas will be the worst holiday in his life. The high-powered corporate consultant is used to saving dying companies, but he can’t save his dying grandmother. Returning to Port Provident for the first time since his childhood, he hopes to slip into town—and then leave as soon as possible--without running into the other side of his family who turned their back on him when he was a kid. Can a woman who lives for the lessons of the past use the town’s heritage to bring the legacy of true love to a man who’s spent his whole life running away? Start reading Legacy of Love to find hope, heart, and happily-ever-after today! USA Today bestselling romance author Kristen Ethridge brings readers home to Port Provident, Texas for the Home to Love Romance series—sweet escape romances full of hope, heart and happily-ever-after. These clean romance novels with a light, uplifting thread of faith and love will sweep you up in the story and leave you with a smile. Legacy of Love is the second novel in the Home to Love Romance series, although all the books in the Port Provident world and this complete book series can be read as a standalone. This is a sweet romance book with Christian romance themes and a guaranteed happily-ever-after. Enjoy the complete Home to Love Romance series! Language of Love Legacy of Love Labor of Love KEYWORDS: complete romance series, happily ever after, love books, love stories, romantic novels, small town romance, beach romance, enemies to lovers, guaranteed HEA, new beginnings, no cliffhangers, bargain romance books, best beach reads, bargain romance novels, christian romance novels, sweet romance novels, series books, Christian romance ebooks free, beach romance series, small town romance friends to lovers, new romance book releases, best selling authors new releases

Book Common Worlds and Single Lives

Download or read book Common Worlds and Single Lives written by Verena Keck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pacific societies, local knowledge, which has been accumulated over thousands of years and is irreplaceable, is rapidly disappearing. With the extinction of languages, the ability to observe and interpret the world from varying perspectives is also being lost. At the same time, an enormous body of knowledge about nature, plants and animals is vanishing. However, in parallel with this, the people of the Pacific are confronted with new modes of knowledge and newly introduced technologies through imported educational systems, missions of various denominations, and the media. They do not passively assimilate this knowledge but adopt, adapt, and apply it in a syncretistic way.These changes will have permanent effects on the individual lives of people in the region and their knowledge about themselves and their surrounding 'world'. This stimulating book tracks the course of these developments and offers revealing insights into the complexity of Pacific peoples' responses to the process of globalization.