{"product_id":"person-and-place-ideas-ideals-and-practice-of-sociality-on-vanua-lava-vanuatu-9781845455996","title":"Person and Place: Ideas, Ideals and Practice of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tConcerned 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, discourses and conversations which concern Vanuatu specifically, the Pacific as a wider geographic area but also theoretical fields in anthropology: the relevance and expressions of sociality through kinship, concepts of person, issues about land and cosmology, the kastom debate, and questions about continuity and change. In doing so she provides a snapshot of contemporary notions of personhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“…\u003cem\u003ethe book’s most admirable qualities are evident when Hess allows her ethnographic description to develop, in the attention she gives to vernacular narrative and linguistic analysis, and in the commitment that she gives to engaging with Vanua-Lavan sociality within a flux of historical change.\u003c\/em\u003e”  \u003cstrong\u003e·  JRAI\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tList of tables, figures, maps\u003cbr\u003e \tList of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e \tPreface\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Sociality: ideas, ideals and practice\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Person\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Life cycles\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Being in place\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Talking about place\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Church and kastom: an old couple\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eConclusion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tAppendices\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042981806423,"sku":"9781845455996","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/person-and-place-ideas-ideals-and-practice-of-sociality-on-vanua-lava-vanuatu-9781845455996","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}