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Strathern's Melanesian 'dividual' and the Christian 'individual': a Perspective from Vanua Lava, Vanuatu

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Hess, Sabine

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Oceania Publications

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What happens to people's concept of the person when their 'dividuality' engages with the Christian concept of the 'individual'? According to Vanua Lava kastom, when people die they go to sere timiat, the place of the dead. But do they still go there when

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