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The Last White Canoe of the Lau of Malaita, Solomon Islands (Hardcover)
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The Last White Canoe of the Lau of Malaita, Solomon Islands (Hardcover)
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Building a beautiful ornamented ‘white canoe’ was a way for the
Lau people of Malaita in Solomon Islands to honour the ghosts of
their ancestors in the days before they became Christians. This
book tells the story of the last of these canoes, built in 1968 by
one of the few clans still following their traditional religion, as
witnessed by the late anthropologist Pierre Maranda. Maranda
observed how the great artistic projects of Malaita were once
supported by elaborate ritual procedures and celebrated with
community festivals, all richly illustrated here by his
photographs. James Tuita was among the Lau boys who played with
Maranda’s son and, years later, he visited Quebec to help Maranda
with his research. Besides writing the Lau text for this book, he
contributes his own acutely felt insights into the radical changes
in Lau society during his lifetime and the importance of
maintaining its cultural traditions. Ben Burt, a curator at the
British Museum, knew Maranda through his own anthropological
research in Malaita and worked with James Tuita to ensure that
Maranda’s plans for his ethnographic research were realized after
his death. It is published, as Maranda intended, in Lau and English
languages, to return some of their cultural heritage to the people
of Lau, Malaita and Solomon Islands.
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