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An archaeology of early Christianity in Vanuatu : custom and religious change on Tanna and Erromango 1839-1920
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ISBN: 1760460753 1760460745 9781760460754 9781760460747 Year: 2016 Publisher: ANU Press

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Religious change is at its core a material as much as a spiritual process. Beliefs related to intangible spirits, ghosts, or gods were enacted through material relationships between people, places, and objects. The archaeology of mission sites from Tanna and Erromango islands, southern Vanuatu (formerly the New Hebrides), offer an informative case study for understanding the material dimensions of religious change. One of the primary ways that cultural difference was thrown into relief in the Presbyterian New Hebrides missions was in the realm of objects. Christian Protestant missionaries believed that religious conversion had to be accompanied by changes in the material conditions of everyday life. Results of field archaeology and museum research on Tanna and Erromango, southern Vanuatu, show that the process of material transformation was not unidirectional. Just as Melanesian people changed religious beliefs and integrated some imported objects into everyday life, missionaries integrated local elements into their daily lives. Attempts to produce ‘civilised Christian natives’, or to change some elements of native life relating purely to ‘religion’ but not others, resulted instead in a proliferation of ‘hybrid’ forms. This is visible in the continuity of a variety of traditional practices subsumed under the umbrella term ‘kastom’ through to the present alongside Christianity. Melanesians didn’t become Christian, Christianity became Melanesian. The material basis of religious change was integral to this process.


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Archéologie des Nouvelles-Hébrides : contribution à la connaissance des îles du Centre
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ISBN: 2854300548 2854301013 Year: 1972 Publisher: Société des Océanistes

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José Garanger, chargé de recherche au C.N.R.S., effectua plusieurs missions archéologiques dans le Pacifique, tant en Polynésie qu'en Mélanésie, sous l'égide du C.N.R.S. et de l'ORSTOM. Il est également chargé de l'enseignement de la préhistoire à l'Université de Paris-Nanterre et secrétaire général de la Société des Océanistes. L'Archéologie des Nouvelles - Hébrides contient l'essentiel de la thèse de doctorat ès-lettres qu'il soutint récemment en Sorbonne. Le jury qui reçut José Garanger docteur, avec la plus haute distinction, eut l'occasion de signaler, outre ses solides qualités de chercheur, qu'il avait remarquablement su utiliser les mythes hébridais pour y rechercher des données historiques et ainsi "ancrer" ses recherches dans le passé traditionnel de l'archipel. Des cataclysmes légendaires s'avéraient avoir des confirmations géologiques, de fructueuses recherches permettaient de mettre la main sur les restes de héros légendaires... Dans un texte très dense-, abondamment illustré, complété par une riche bibliographie qu'accompagnent deux index, José Garanger expose les résultats obtenus au cours de dix-huit mois de fouilles dans le centre de l'archipel. Leur intérêt dépasse le simple cadre des Nouvelles-Hébrides et concerne l'ensemble de la préhistoire océanienne. Parmi les problèmes abordés, retenons en particulier les thèmes suivants : • Typologie et chronologie des diverses traditions céramiques du Pacifique aux Nouvelles-Hébrides, de l'outillage lithique et coquillier, des éléments de parure, des sépultures individuelles et collectives. • Confirmation, par l'archéologie préhistorique, des contenus historiques de deux grands cycles mytiques. • Relations avec les autres archipels mélanésiens, la Micronésie et la Polynésie Occidentale.


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A political memoir of the Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides
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ISBN: 192502198X 192502220X 9781925022209 9781925021981 Year: 2014 Publisher: Canberra, Australia : Australian National University Press,

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"This is a fascinating memoir written by Keith Woodward many years after he left the then New Hebrides where he worked for almost twenty-five years in the British Administration. Although he is modest about his own contributions in these years, Keith played a significant role in the moves towards self-government, an innovative, electoral system and ultimately, in 1980, independence when the country became Vanuatu. This work not only led to his award of an OBE but a Vanuatu Independence Medal. It will be an invaluable history not just for those ni-Vanuatu who lived through those momentous and turbulent years leading up to independence but for those of subsequent generations. It will also be a great resource for scholars of the decolonisation process and political history of Vanuatu and the Pacific more broadly. In addition, it highlights the complexity of the relations between British and French colonialisms in the archipelago and the region"--Preface.


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Working together in Vanuatu : research histories, collaborations, projects and reflections
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ISBN: 1921862343 1921862351 9781921862359 9781921862342 Year: 2011 Publisher: Canberra, Australia : ANU Press,

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This collection is derived from a conference held at the Vanuatu National Museum and Cultural Centre (VCC) that brought together a large gathering of foreign and indigenous researchers to discuss diverse perspectives relating to the unique program of social, political and historical research and management that has been fostered in that island nation. While not diminishing the importance of individual or sole-authored methodologies, project-centered collaborative approaches have today become a defining characteristic of Vanuatu's unique research environment. As this volume attests, this environment has included a dynamically wide range of both ni-Vanuatu and foreign researchers and related research perspectives, most centrally including archaeologists and anthropologists, linguists, historians, legal studies scholars and development practitioners. This emphasis on collaboration has emerged from an ongoing awareness across Vanuatu's research community of the need for trained researchers to engage directly with pressing social and ethical concerns, and out of the proven fact that it is not just from the outcomes of research that communities or individuals may be empowered, but also through their modes and processes of implementation, as through the ongoing strength and value of the relationships they produce. With this in mind, the papers presented here go beyond the mere celebration of collaboration by demonstrating Vanuatu's specific environment of cross-cultural research as a diffuse set of historically emergent methodological approaches, and by showing how these work in actual practice.


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A bird that flies with two wings : kastom and state justice systems in Vanuatu
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ISBN: 1921536780 1921536799 9781921536793 9781921536786 Year: 2009 Publisher: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : ANU E Press,

Pieces of the Vanuatu puzzle : archaeology of the north, south and centre
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ISBN: 192131303X 9781921313035 174076093X 9781740760935 Year: 2006 Publisher: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : Australian National University E Press,

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