TY - BOOK ID - 8058167 TI - Working together in Vanuatu : research histories, collaborations, projects and reflections AU - Taylor, John AU - Thieberger, Nick PY - 2011 SN - 1921862343 1921862351 9781921862359 9781921862342 PB - Canberra, Australia : ANU Press, DB - UniCat KW - Sociology & Social History KW - Social Sciences KW - Social Conditions KW - Cross-cultural studies KW - Social sciences KW - Methodology KW - Network analysis KW - Vanuatu KW - Social conditions KW - Behavioral sciences KW - Human sciences KW - Sciences, Social KW - Social science KW - Social studies KW - Comparison of cultures KW - Inter-cultural studies KW - Intercultural studies KW - Trans-cultural studies KW - Transcultural studies KW - Republic of Vanuatu KW - République de Vanuatu KW - Ripablik blong Vanuatu KW - République du Vanuatu KW - República de Vanuatu KW - Republik Vanuatu KW - Vanuatua Respubliko KW - Vanuatská republika KW - Vanuatun tasavalta KW - Vanuatu Vabariik KW - Vanuatuko Errepublika KW - Republica Vanuatu KW - República do Vanuatu KW - Vanuatu Cumhuriyeti KW - Republika e Vanautusë KW - Cộng hòa Vanuatu KW - Republika ng Vanuatu KW - Вануату KW - Рэспубліка Вануату KW - Rėspublika Vanuatu KW - Република Вануату KW - Republika Vanuatu KW - Βανουάτου KW - Vanouatou KW - Δημοκρατία του Βανουάτου KW - Dēmokratia tou Vanouatou KW - バヌアツ KW - Banuatsu KW - バヌアツ共和国 KW - Banuatsu Kyōwakoku KW - 瓦努阿图 KW - Wanu'atu KW - Vanuaaku KW - Civilization KW - Culture KW - Ethnology KW - People's Provisional Government of Vanuaaku KW - New Hebrides UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8058167 AB - 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. ER -