Vanuatu in All Its States

Presentation

A multidisciplinary approach to current research on the history, sociology and anthropology of Vanuatu by specialists in this Pacific island state. 

Drawing on their many years of field experience in Vanuatu, the authors have produced a bilingual work whose various chapters in English and French provide a fresh perspective on the social transformations underway. The anthropologists gathered here work on authority and power, witchcraft, health, humanitarianism, languages, housing, the environment, urban youth and music. Their contributions highlight Vanuatu's singularities in terms of its relationship to research, decolonization, economic globalization and ecological issues. As an independent state since 1980, Vanuatu is presented in fourteen chapters in all its modernity and cultural specificities. While presenting localized ethnographic research, it is above all the interconnected dimension of this Melanesian archipelago that this book seeks to reflect.

Editors

Marie Durand is a lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Strasbourg. Her research focuses in particular on architecture and infrastructure, relations to territories, domestic spaces and everyday practices.

Monika Stern is a CNRS research fellow and ethnomusicologist specializing in the music of the Melanesian archipelago of Vanuatu, where she has carried out extensive fieldwork since 1998.

Éric Wittersheim is a senior lecturer at EHESS. An anthropologist and filmmaker, his research focuses mainly on the genesis and transformations of the state in South Pacific societies.

510 pages
16 x 24 cm
Publication: 14/02/2024
ISBN: 9782858314386