Ambae

ETHNONYMS: a Bai, Angai Tagaro, Aoba, Butona, Leper's Island, Lombaha, Longana, Nduindui, Oba, Omba, Opa, Waluriki

See also Pentecost

Bibliography

Allen, M. R. (1968). "The Establishment of Christianity and Cash-Cropping in a New Hebridean Community." Journal of Pacific History 3:25-46.

Blackwood, Peter (1981). "Rank, Exchange and Leadership in Four Vanuatu Societies." In Vanuatu: Politics, Economics, and Ritual in Island Melanesia, edited by Michael Allen. New York: Academic Press.

Rodman, Margaret Critchlow (1987). Masters of Tradition: Consequences of Customary Land Tenure in Longana, Vanuatu, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

Rodman, William L. (1985) "'A Law unto Themselves'": Legal Innovation in Ambae, Vanuatu." American Ethnologist 12:603-624.

Rodman, William L., and Margaret C. Rodman (1990). "To Die on Ambae: On the Possibility of Doing Fieldwork Forever." In The Humbled Anthropologist: Tales from the Pacific, edited by Philip DeVita. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Publishing Co.

WILLIAM L. RODMAN AND MARGARET C. RODMAN