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Murray Edmond, Caxton Press, 1988 Scott Hamilton Talks with Murray Edmond about His Eighties Masterpiece Town and Country Players perform Games We Play, a piece about the turmoil around the 1981 Springbok Tour of Aotearoa. From left to right: Murray Edmond, Anne Hunt, Ralph Johnson, and Janet Elepans. For five and a half decades Murray Edmonds has been one of Aotearoa's most innovative and interesting writers. This is part of an interview I did with the man during his recent visit to...

Scott Hamilton Jomon pottery, of the sort that Jose Garanger claimed to have discovered on Efate Island in Vanuatu. Mele Plain is one of my favourite places in the Pacific. It separates the jungly highlands of Efate, Vanuatu's capital island, from the sheltered waters of Mele Bay. The plain was once dominated by French-owned plantations worked by imported Vietnamese (the character Bloody Mary, from James Michener's South Pacific and the subsequent musical, made the Vietnamese of the New...

John Layard, Chatto & Windus, London, 1942 Reviewed by Andrew Paul Wood Haidy Geismar included this photo of Vianney Atpatoun holding a 'bootleg' copy of John Layard's book in her fascinating essay 'The Stone Men of Malekula: an ethnography of an ethnography'. The essay can be read via her page at ResearchGate. John Layard & Stonemen of Malekula: from Colonial Archives to Village Council I. Ethnographic texts, far from being static documents, are living artifacts that continue to shape and be...