Tanna Times
Islanders in the World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5800604 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lamont Lindstrom (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Tanna Times (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Hawaii Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/j.ctv18b5dj2 |
| OpenAlex | W4231557332 |
| Open Library | OL34176356M |
| ISBN | 9780824886684 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
In, I found my way to Tanna Island in what was then the New Hebrides, and Vanuatu today.My proposal to study di erential success with economic development as informed by religious a liation soon morphed into a series of better conceived and more fruitful projects.Then and now, the generous people of Samaria village put me up and put up with me.Over the years, I have come to know Samaria and its neighboring villages located within southeast Tanna's Nafe language area.Although I write of Tanna as a whole, this is shameless ethnographic license that commonly takes one particular place as representative of some encompassing culture, society, and history.Tanna is a remarkable and complex island, and stories from a single village or area never adequately capture its larger truths.Anthropologists like to tell other people's stories but local experts tell them even better.Tanna o ers a rich and profuse narrative archive and Islanders keep this vital with recurrent retellings of Tanna's times.I draw on island narratives to present the life stories of a dozen island personalities, situating these exemplar heroes and heroines within their cultural and historical worlds.Personal names, on Tanna, are tricky economic and family resources.The stories presented here introduce Islanders with their given names until we reach the present day.I rename people who share our own times, asking their forgiveness for thus partly shadowing their persons.In addition to the many island stories told to me over four decades on Tanna, to understand these lives and their times I draw on the writings of explorers, missionaries, traders, administrators, reporters, and anthropologists who found their way to the island, beginning in .For those who might want to pursue a particular life story or an ethnographic theme, I provide suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter.This literature, selected from a larger canon that has informed my research and writing, o ers additional, detailed ethnographic and historical information about Tanna and its people.xv Passing years have decidedly lengthened the list of my benefactors and supporters, on Tanna and elsewhere.This book draws upon years of island history and forty years of my own
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |