The Other Side: Ways of Being and Place in Vanuatu

by John Patrick Taylor

The Other Side is the first major ethnographic and historical study of the Sia Raga people of north Pentecost Island, a region that was home to the late Father Walter Lini, Vanuatu's first prime minister. Exploring Raga social, spatial, and historical consciousness, this richly poetic account provides important theoretical contributions to ongoing debates in Pacific anthropology about the relation between structure and history, and place and time...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824833023
• ISBN13: 9780824833022
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"