The tree and the canoe : history and ethnogeography of Tanna / Joel Bonnemaison ; translated and adapted by Josee Penot-Demetry
- Bib ID:
- 2009778
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bonnemaison, Joël, 1940-1997, author
- Uniform Title:
- Derniere ile. English
- Description:
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- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1994
- ©1994
- xxiv, 368 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0824815254 (acid-free paper)
- Series:
- South Sea books.
- Full contents:
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- Pt. 1. The Invaded Archipelago. 1. On the Path to Myth: Quiros's Great Voyage. 2. Happy "Savages"? 3. Wild Contact. 4. The Gospel and the Kingdom. 5. Catholic Peasant Missionaries and Marginal Churches. 6. "Gone with the Wind"
- Pt. 2. Tanna: Stones within Canoes. 7. Isle of Resilience. 8. Enchanted Space. 9. Society of the Stones. 10. Society of the Hawk. 11. At War. 12. The Return of Magic
- Pt. 3. Fighting on the Island. 13. The Pagans' Resistance. 14. John Frum People. 15. The Bible Revisited. 16. Kastom and Nation. 17. The Revolt. 18. The Meaning of Tanna's Kastom. 19. Conclusion: The Men Ples
- Selected Works by Joel Bonnemaison.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-358) and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Penot-Demetry, Josee, translator
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1994
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