Expected and unexpected cultural heroes: Reflections on gender and agency of conjuncture on Ambrym, Vanuatu

Anthropological Theory

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 227-247

  Eriksen, Annelin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Agency; Christianity; Cultural change; Gender; History; Melanesia; Vanuatu

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249155375     PISSN: 14634996     EISSN: 17412641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1463499606065038     Document Type: Article

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