Tanna Times: Islanders in the World

by Lamont Lindstrom

Book Overview

Anthropologists like to tell other people's stories but local experts tell them even better.

This book introduces the vibrant living culture and fascinating history of Tanna, an island in Vanuatu, Melanesia, through the stories of a dozen interconnected Tanna Islanders. Tracing the past 250 years of island experiences that cross the globe, each of these distinctly extraordinary lives tells larger human narratives of cultural continuity and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824886674
• ISBN13: 9780824886677
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"