Significant rural-urban migration has characterized the postcolonial Melanesian states including Vanuatu. Over the past 30 years, most people who once lived in Samaria village (Tanna Island) have moved to squatter settlements that ring Port Vila, Vanuatu’s capital town. Life history interviewing of migrants now living in Port Vila’s Blacksands and Ohlen neighbourhoods, and also of those remaining back on Tanna, document peoples’ participation in urban migration, wage-labor, mobile telephony and other new media, religious organization, leadership and dispute settlement, and other aspects of urban life and how this participation is shaping a new urbanity in Vanuatu.L’histoire des États mélanésiens postcoloniaux, incluant le Vanuatu, fut notam...
Post-colonial Vanuatu is one of the most culturally and linguistically diversecountries in the world...
Melanesian urbanization is primarily postcolonial, occurring after colonial restrictions on migratio...
Drawing on fieldwork data and relevant anthropological literature, this thesis examines how potentia...
Urbanization in Vanuatu has increased rapidly in recent decades. Circular mobility has gradually giv...
Dans leurs histoires de migration urbaine, les habitants de Tanna qui vivent dans les quartiers info...
Between 1967 and 1979, urban population growth in Vanuatu has increased at more than twice the annu...
Anthropologists have documented the dense “trans-island” ties between rural and urban life in contem...
14 pagesInternational audiencePort Vila, the capital of Vanuatu, is a theatre of profound cultural a...
Despite several years of economic growth, social tensions appear in Vanuatu’s capital, Port-Vila, wh...
Les premières migrations ont atteint la région de l’Océanie Lointaine (à l'est des îles Salomon) réc...
In the Pacific Island country of Vanuatu, the majority of the population is involved in subsistence ...
"Anthropologists like to tell other people’s stories but local experts tell them even better. Thi...
Embodying dual legacies (ancestral and colonial), communities throughout the Pacific Islands are con...
International audienceThe Torres and Banks Islands, two small archipelagos of northern Vanuatu, are ...
International audience“Polynesian outliers” are not anymore considered, by many scholars of South Pa...
Post-colonial Vanuatu is one of the most culturally and linguistically diversecountries in the world...
Melanesian urbanization is primarily postcolonial, occurring after colonial restrictions on migratio...
Drawing on fieldwork data and relevant anthropological literature, this thesis examines how potentia...
Urbanization in Vanuatu has increased rapidly in recent decades. Circular mobility has gradually giv...
Dans leurs histoires de migration urbaine, les habitants de Tanna qui vivent dans les quartiers info...
Between 1967 and 1979, urban population growth in Vanuatu has increased at more than twice the annu...
Anthropologists have documented the dense “trans-island” ties between rural and urban life in contem...
14 pagesInternational audiencePort Vila, the capital of Vanuatu, is a theatre of profound cultural a...
Despite several years of economic growth, social tensions appear in Vanuatu’s capital, Port-Vila, wh...
Les premières migrations ont atteint la région de l’Océanie Lointaine (à l'est des îles Salomon) réc...
In the Pacific Island country of Vanuatu, the majority of the population is involved in subsistence ...
"Anthropologists like to tell other people’s stories but local experts tell them even better. Thi...
Embodying dual legacies (ancestral and colonial), communities throughout the Pacific Islands are con...
International audienceThe Torres and Banks Islands, two small archipelagos of northern Vanuatu, are ...
International audience“Polynesian outliers” are not anymore considered, by many scholars of South Pa...
Post-colonial Vanuatu is one of the most culturally and linguistically diversecountries in the world...
Melanesian urbanization is primarily postcolonial, occurring after colonial restrictions on migratio...
Drawing on fieldwork data and relevant anthropological literature, this thesis examines how potentia...