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The Power of Perspective: social ontology and agency on Ambrym, Vanuatu.

Publication: Oceania
Publication Date: 01-JUL-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Power of Perspective: social ontology and agency on Ambrym, Vanuatu.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
The Power of Perspective: social ontology and agency oft Ambrynt, Vanuatu.

By Knut Rio.

Berghahn: Berghahn Books 2007

Since the foundation of the discipline, the central Vanuatu island of Ambrym has held a very special place in the anthropological imagination, and The Power of Perspective rightly celebrates this. From W H R Rivers' The History of Melanesian Society (1914, University of Cambridge Press) onwards, the vagaries of the Ambrymese's seemingly anomalous social and ceremonial forms have for decades both delighted and eluded scholars of kinship, exchange and ritual, and have even piqued the interest of continental philosophers. Perhaps the most important and memorable moment in this legacy...

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