Ethnology of Vanuatu: An Early Twentieth Century Study - is a rich documentation resulting from a Swiss anthropologist Felix Speiser, who spent more than two years in the field (May 1910 - July 1912), first published in German in 1923 it is now for the first time translated into English.
This book has recorded much of the country's early material culture which, without this record would have been lost forever.
This in-depth compilation is abundantly illustrated with over 109 plates providing over 1,600 illustrations 50 plates of which are in colour, making it one of the major documents published on the arts of the Vanuatu. A must for anyone with an interest in the Ethnology of Vanuatu.
The text is extensive and covers all areas including:
- Colonial history
- geography
- human factor
- habitation
- daily living
- dress and ornament
- hunting and warfare and communication
- production and exchange of goods
- the life cycle
- social and political organisation
- religion
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