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Ann Skinner-Jones and Joan Larcom Photographs

Owning Institution: UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library

About this Collection

In 1981, Anthropologist Joan Larcom traveled with Photographer Ann Skinner-Jones to Vanuatu to create a photographic essay of the people and culture during the first anniversary of the country's independence from France and the United Kingdom. The collection focuses on the people's experiences of independence and new nationhood, mostly on the island of Malakula, where local people have refereed the interface between politics, custom and religion by re-categorizing tradition in creative ways. View this collection on the contributor's website.

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353 items found in this collection

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Candidates for local council election
Canoe carver 1 of 2
Canoe carver 2 of 2
Carrying oars to local boat
Carved tree fern statues with school bell
Carving of a canoe
Cash crop cargo ship storage area
Cement house construction 1 of 2
Cement house construction 2 of 2
Cement stove invention
Charismatic Presbyterian church altar
Charismatic Presbyterian Church exterior in northern Malekula
Charismatic Presbyterian Church interior in northern Malekula
Chief Jonsin and his grandaughter reinventing tradition
A child cares for sibling
Children after school with slit gong
Children at play building a cooking house
Children excited to see Polaroid photo
Children hanging around the village guest house
Children in Lorlow
Children in Lorlow playing jump vine
Children in Lorlow playing jump vine
Children interested in the Polaroid camera
Children play kick the coconut shell
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