Selected bibliography on anthropology in Vanuatu (especially for Christian workers)

Worldview and magic

*Allen, Michael (Ed.). (1981). Vanuatu: Politics, economics and ritual in island Melanesia. Sydney, Australia: Academic Press.

Aragon, Lorraine. (2000). Fields of the Lord: Animism, Christian minorities, and state development in Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i.

Barker, John (Ed.). (1990). Christianity in Oceania. Lanham, MD: University Press.

Bird-David, Nurit. (1999). 'Animism' revisited: Or, on personhood, environment and relational epistemology. Current Anthropology, 4067-92.

Burnett, David. (1988). Unearthly powers: A Christian's handbook on primal and folk religions. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson.

Burnett, David. (2002). Spiritual conflict and folk religion. In A. S. Moreau (Ed.), Deliver us from evil. Monrovia, CA: World Vision Publications.

Capell, Arthur. (1938). The stratification of afterworld beliefs in the New Hebrides. Folklore, 49(1), 51-85.

Clodd, Edward. (200-). Animism, the seed of religion.

Douglas, Bronwen. (1989). Autonomous and controlled spirits: Traditional ritual and early interpretations of Christianity on Tanna, Aneityum and the Isle of Pines in comparative perspective. Journal of the Polynesian Society 987-48.

Frazer, James. (1922). The golden bough: A study in magic and religion. New York: Macmillan.

Harvey, Graham. (2006). Animism. New York: Columbia University Press.

Halverson, Dean. (1998). Animism: The religion of the tribal world. International Journal of Frontier Missions, 15(2), 59-67.

Hiebert, Paul, Shaw, R. Daniel, & Tienou, Tite. (1999). Understanding Folk Religion. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker.

Hiebert, Paul. (2008). Transforming Worldviews. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker.

*Howells, W. W. (1948). The heathens: Primitive man and his religions. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.

Ivens, W. G. (1931). The place of Vui and Tamate in the religion of Mota. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 61(Jan-June), 157-166.

Ivens, W. G. (1924). The Polynesian Word Atua: Its Derivation and Use. Man, 24(Sep), 133-136.

Jebens, Holger (Ed.). (2004). Cargo, cult and culture critique. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii.

Kraft, Charles. (2008). Worldview for Christian Witness. Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.

Layard, J. W. (1930). Flying Tricksters, Ghosts, Gods, and Epileptics. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 60(July-Dec), 501-524.

Leuba, James. (1909). On three types of behavior: The mechanical, the coercitive (magic) and the anthropopathic (including religion). American Journal of Psychology, 20(1), 107-119.

Lingenfelter, Sherwood, & Mayers, Marvin. (1986). Ministering cross-culturally. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker.

Marett, Robert. (1900). Pre-Animistic religion. Folklore, 11(2), 162-184.

Norton, Robert. (1993). Culture and Identity in the South Pacific: A Comparative Analysis. Man, 28(4), 741-759.

Radin, Paul. (1957). Primitive religion. New York: Dover.

Roheim, Geza. (1972). Animism, magic, and the divine king. New York: International University Press.

Steyne, Philip. (1990). Gods of power: A study of the beliefs and practices of animists. Houston: Touch Publications.

*Strelan, John. (1977). The search for salvation: Studies in the history and theology of cargo cults. Adelaide, Australia: Lutheran Publishing House.

Stringer, Martin. (1999). Rethinking animism: Thoughts from the infancy of our discipline. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 5(4), 541-555.

Turner, James. (1986). "The Water of Life": Kava Ritual and the Logic of Sacrifice. Ethnology, 25(3), 203-214.

*Van Rheenen, Gailyn. (1991). Communicating Christ in animistic contexts. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker.

Reciprocity

Ahrens, Theodor. On grace and reciprocity: A fresh approach to contextualization with reference to Christianity in Melanesia. International Review of Mission, 89515-528.

Gregory, C. A. (1982). Gifts and Commodities. London: Academic Press.

Harrison, Simon. (2000). From Prestige Goods to Legacies: Property and the Objectification of Culture in Melanesia. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 42(3), 662-669.

Mauss, Marcel (1990) The Gift: Form and Function of Exchange in Archaic Societies. London: Routledge.

Sahlins, Marshall. (1972). Stone Age Economics. London: Tavistock Publications.

Strathern, Marilyn. (1988). The Gender of the Gift. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Trompf, Garry. (1994). Payback: The logic of retribution in Melanesian religions. New York: Cambridge.

Social organization

Allen, Michael. (1984). Elders, Chiefs, and Big Men: Authority Legitimation and Political Evolution in Melanesia. American Ethnologist, 11(1), 20-41.

Barnard, T.T. (1928). The Social Organisation of Ambrim. Man, 28133-137.

Brunton, Ron. (1979). Kava and the daily dissolution of society on Tanna, New Hebrides. Mankind 12(2), 93-103.

Brunton, Ron. (1989). The abandoned narcotic: Kava and cultural instability in Melanesia. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Casson, Ronald, & Gregory, Robert J. (1976). Kinship in Tanna, southern New Hebrides: marriage rules and equivalence rules. Anthropological linguistics 18(4), 168-182.

Godelier, Maurice, & Strathern, Marilyn. (1991). Big men and great men: Personifications of power in Melanesia. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Gregory, Robert J. (2002/2003). Conflict resolution on Tanna, Vanuatu. South Pacific Journal of Psychology, 1460-68.

Hage, Per. (2001). The Evolution of Dravidian Kinship Systems in Oceania: Linguistic Evidence. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 7(3), 487-508.

Herdt, Gilbert (ed.) (Ed.). (1984). Ritualized homosexuality in Melanesia. Berkeley, CA: University of California.

Lindstrom, Lamont. (1978 ). Bigman or chief?: Knowledge and political process on Tanna. Kroeber Anthropological Society papers 57/8122-146.

Lindstrom, Lamont. (1990). Knowledge and power in a South Pacific society. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian.

Lingenfelter, Sherwood (1998). Transforming culture. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker.

Mantovani, E. (ed.). (1987). Marriage in Melanesia: A theological perspective. Goroka, E.H.P. (Papua New Guinea): The Melanesian Institute.

Marshall, Mac, Alkire, William H., Bellwood, Peter, Bender, Byron W., Blust, Robert, Boyd, John Paul, Chowning, Ann, Clark, Ross, Kirch, Patrick V.
Kirk, Jerome, & Smith, J. Jerome, Valjavec, Friedrich. (1984). Structural Patterns of Sibling Classification in Island Oceania: Implications for Culture History. Current Anthropology, 25(5), 597-637.

Rivers, W. H. R. (1910). The Father's Sister in Oceania. Folklore, 21(1), 42-59.

Rodman, William. (1985). "A Law Unto Themselves": Legal Innovation in Ambae, Vanuatu. American Ethnologist, 12(4), 603-624.

*Sahlins, Marshall. (1963). Poor man, rich man, big-man, chief: Political types in Melanesia and Polynesia. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 5(3), 285-304.

Scheffler, H. W. (1984). Kin Classification as Social Structure: The Ambrym Case. American Ethnologist, 11(4), 791-806.

Strathern, Marilyn. (1984). Marriage Exchanges: A Melanesian Comment. Annual Review of Anthropology, 1341-73.

White, Geoffrey, & Lindstrom, Lamont. (1997). Chiefs today: Traditional Pacific leadership and the postcoloniasl state. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Healing practices and sorcery

Bourdy, Genevieve. (1992). Maternity and medicinal plants in Vanuatu. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 37179-196.

Grace, Robert. (2001). Anticholinergic poisoning secondary to custom medicine in Vanuatu. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 772-3.

Landy, D. (1977) Culture, Disease and Healing. Macmillan. New York, NY

Lehmann and Myers. (2001). Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery Univ Cal. Press, Chico. Ca.

Rio, K. (2010). Handling Sorcery in a State System of Law: Magic, Violence and Kastom in Vanuatu. Oceania, 80, 182-197.

Parsons, C.(1985). Healing Practices in the South Pacific. Honolulu: Institute for Polynesian Studies.

Totems and taboos

Boas, Frans. (1916). The origin of totemism. American Anthropologist, 18(3), 319-326.

DiCenso, James. (1996). Totem and taboo and the constitutive function of symbolic forms. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 64(3), 557-574.

Durkheim, Emile. (1915). The elementary forms of the religious life. New York: Free Press.

Evans-Pritchard, Edward. (1965). Theories of primitive religion. Oxford: University Press.

Frazer, James. (1887). Totemism. Edinburgh: A & C Black.

Freud, Sigmund. (1950). Totem and Taboo (James Strachey, Trans.). New York: Norton and Co.

Hopkins, Edward Washburn. (1918). The background of totemism. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 38145-159.

Kroeber, Alfred. (1939). Totem and taboo in retrospect. American Journal of Sociology, 45(3), 446-451.

Lawrence, P., & Meggitt, Mervin (Eds.). (1965). Gods, ghosts, and men in Melanesia: Some religions of Australian New Guinea and the New Hebrides. New York: Oxford.

Levi-Strauss, Claude. (1963). Totemism. Boston: Beacon Press.

Sapiro, W. (1991). Claude Levi-Strauss meets Alexander Goldenweiser: Boasian anthropology and the study of totemism. American Anthropologist, 93(3), 599-610.

Silverman, E. (2001). From totemic space to cyberspace: Transformations in Sepik River and Aboriginal Australian myth, knowledge and art. In A. Rumsey & J. Weiner (Eds.), Emplaced myth: space, narrative, and knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press.

Worsley, Peter. (1955). Totemism in a changing society. American Anthropologist, 57(4), 851-861.

Material anthropology

Bolton, L. Dressing for transition: wedding,s clothing and change in Vanuatu. In S. Kuchler & G. Were (Eds.), The art of clothing: A Pacific experience.

Bonnemaison, J.  Et al. (1996). Arts of Vanuatu. Bathurst, Australia: Crawford House.

Geismar, Haidy. (2005). Copyright in context: Carvings, carvers, and commodities in Vanuatu. American Ethnologist, 32(3), 437-459.

Jolly, Margaret. (1982). Birds and banyans of South Pentecost: Kastom in anti-colonial struggle. Mankind, 13(4), 338-356.

Jolly, Margaret. (1999). Another Time, Another Place. Oceania, 69 282-299.

Rio, Knut. (2005). Discussions around sand-drawing: creations of agency and society in Melanesia. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 11412-423.

Rio, Knut. (2009). Subject and object in a Vanuatu social ontology: A local vision of dialectics. Journal of Material Culture, 14(3), 283-308.

Wallis, R. (2002). The Bwili or 'Flying Tricksters' of Malakula: A Critical Discussion of Recent Debates on Rock Art, Ethnography and Shamanisms. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 8(4), 735-760.

Land and Identity

Jolly, Margaret. (2007). Oceanic Hauntings?: Race- Culture- Place between Vanuatu and Hawai’i. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 28(1), 99-112.

Signs and rituals

Capell, Arthur. (1960). The Maui myths in the New Hebrides. Folklore, 71(1), 19-35.

*Codrington, Robert. (1891). The Melanesians: Their anthropology and folk-lore. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

*Gardissat, P. (2005). Nabanga. Port Vila, Vanuatu: Vanuatu Cultural Center.

Gregory, Robert J. (2004). Myth and social control: Extending a Tannese case. Anthropologist 6(2), 91-95.

Lawrence, P., & Meggitt, Mervin (Eds.). (1965). Gods, ghosts, and men in Melanesia: Some religions of Australian New Guinea and the New Hebrides. New York: Oxford.

Lindstrom, Lamont. (2004). History, folklore, traditional uses of kava. In Y. Singh (Ed.), Kava: From ethnology to pharmacology. Boca Raton: CRC Press.

Montegomery, C. (2004). The Shark God: Encounters with ghosts and ancestors in the South Pacific. New York: Harper Collins.

Nunn, Patrick. (2001). On the Convergence of Myth and Reality: Examples from the Pacific Islands. The Geographical Journal, 167(2), 12-38.

*Poignant, Roslyn. (1967). Oceanic mythology: The myths of Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia and Australia. New York: Paul Hamlyn.

Westervelt, W. D. (2004). Legends of Maui: A demigod and his mother Hina. Whitefish, MT: Kessinger.

Culture change, new religious movements, and history of missions in your area

A.M.B. (n.d.). John G. Paton: The four years on Tanna. Melbourne: Brown, Prior & Co.

Adams, Ronald. (1984). In the land of strangers: A century of European contact with Tanna 1774-1874. Canberra: Australian National University.

Adams, Ronald. (1998). Experiencing outside worlds: Tannese labour recruitment in the second half of the nineteenth century. In Verena Keck (Ed.), Common Worlds and Single Lives: Constituting Knowledge in Pacific Societies  (pp. 231-250). Oxford Berg.

Armstrong, E. S. (1900). The History of the Melanesian mission. London: Ibister and Co.

Bolton, L. (1999). Radio and the redefinition of kastom in Vanuatu. Contemporary Pacific(fall), 335ff.

Bonnemaison, Joel. (1994). The tree and the canoe: History and ethnogeography of Tanna. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii.

Campbell, Fred. (1873). A year in the New Hebrides: Geelong, G. Mercer.

Campbell, Malcolm. (1974). A century of Presbyterian Mission Education in the New Hebrides 1848-1948. Unpublished Master's Thesis, University of Melbourne.

Douglas, Bronwen. (2001). Encounters with the Enemy? Academic Readings of Missionary Narratives on Melanesians. Comparative Studies in Society and History,, 43(1), 37-64.

Eriksen, Annelin. (2009). 'New Life': Pentecostalism as Social Critique in Vanuatu. Ethnos, 74(2), 175-198.

Frater, Maurice. (1922). Midst volcanic fires: An account of missionary tours among the volcanic islands of the New Hebrides. London: J. Clarke & Co.

Friesen, J. Stanley. (1996). Missionary responses to tribal religions at Edinburgh, 1910. New York: P. Lang.

Harris, William Thomas, & Parrinder, Edward Geoffrey. (1960). The Christian approach to the animist. Edinburgh House: London.

Inglis, John. (1887). In the New Hebrides: Reminiscences of missionary life and work. London: T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row.

Lange, R. (2005). Island ministers: Indigenous leaders in Nineteenth Century Pacific Islands Christianity. Canberra: Pandanus Books.

MacClancy, J. (1980). To kill a bird with two stones. Port Vila, Vanuatu: Vanuatu Cultural Center.

Miller, Elmer. (1973). The Christian missionary: Agent of secularisation. Missiology: An International Review, 199-108.

Miller, R. S. (1975). Misi Gete. Tasmania, Australia: Presbyterian Church of Tasmania.

Nida, Eugene. (1959). Introducing animism. New York: Friendship Press.

Paton, John. (1889). John G. Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides: An autobiography (Vol. 1). New York: R. Carter.

Paton, Margaret. (2003). Letters from the South Seas: Banner of Truth.

Patterson, George. (1864). Memoirs of the Rev. S.F. Johnston, the Rev. J.W. Matheson, and Mrs. Mary Johnston Matheson: Missionaries on Tanna. With selections from their diaries and correspondence, and notices of the New Hebrides, their inhabitants and missionary work among them. Philadelphia, PA: W.S. & A. Martien.

Prior, Randall. (1998). Gospel and culture in Vanuatu: The founding missionary and a missionary for today. Wattle Park, Australia: Gospel Vanuatu Books.

Proctor, J.H. (1999). Scottish missionaries and the governance of the New Hebrides. Journal of Church and State, Mar 22.

Steel, Robert. (1880). The New Hebrides and Christian missions with a sketch of the labor traffic. London: James Nisbet & Co.

Tippett, Alan. (2005). Deep sea canoe: The story of Third World missionaries in the South Pacific. Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.

Tonkinson, Robert. (1982). National identity and the problem of kastom in Vanuatu. Mankind, 13306-315.

Turner, George. (1861). Nineteen years in Polynesia: Life, travels, and researches in the islands of the Pacific. London: John Snow, Patternoster Row.

Watt, Agnes. (1896). Twenty-five years' mission life on Tanna. London: J & R Parlane

*Whiteman, Darrell. (1983). Melanesians and missionaries: An ethnohistorical study of social and religious change in the Southwest Pacific. Pasadena, Ca: William Carey Library.

Education

Ni-Vanuatu graduates: What happens when they go home. (2007). Development in Practice, 17(Feb), 147-153.

Bray, Mark. (1993). Education and the Vestiges of Colonialism: Self-Determination, Neocolonialism and Dependency in the South Pacific. Comparative Education, 29(3), 333-348.

Caston, Geoffrey. (193). Higher Education in the South Pacific: A Political Economy. Comparative Education, 29(3), 321-332.

Gannicott, Ken, & Throsby, David. (1992). Educational Quality in Economic Development: Ten Propositions and an Application to the South Pacific. International Review of Education, 38(3), 223-239.

Hindson, Colin. (1995). Educational Planning in Vanuatu-An Alternative Analysis. Comparative Education, 31(3), 327-337.

Mangubhai, Francis. (1989). Towards Quality in Post-Literacy Learning in the South Pacific. International Review of Education, 35(4), 505-511.

Thaman, Konai. (1993). Culture and the Curriculum in the South Pacific. Comparative Education, 29(3), 249-260.

Communication

Dodd, Carley H.  (1998).  Dynamics of Intercultural Communication. New York: McGrall Hill.

Gudykunst, William B., Stella Ting-Toomey, Tsukasa Nishida. (1996) Communication in Personal Relationships Across Cultures.  Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage Publications, Inc.

Kraft, Charles H. (1991) Communication Theory for Christian Witness.  Maryknoll, NY:  Orbis.

Shaw & Van Engen. (2003). Communicating God's Word in a Complex World.  Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield.

Scripture in Use

Ferguson, John. (1918). A bibliography of the New Hebrides and a history of the Mission Press. Sydney: J. A. Ferguson.

Lynch, John. (1994). An annotated bibliography of Vanuatu languages. Suva, Fiji: Pacific Information Centre and University of the South Pacific Library.http://coombs.anu.edu.au/Biblio/biblio_vanuatulanguages.html. Accessed Nov. 2, 2008.