Vanuatu

Pentecost: An Island in Vanuatu
by Genevieve Mescam

With black-and-white photography by Denis Coulombier, this book focuses on the traditional geometric designs and abstract motifs of Vanuata’s traditional ceremonial mats. Author Genevieve Mescamin reveals a country where subsistance agriculture still dominates along with a predominantly oral tradition (reflected in the lack of literature) and helps us to understand that not all language exists in written form. Vanuatu has a very uncertain future: in 2011 the UN recognised the destruction of one of its coastal villages as the very first instance of climate change refugees.

Vanuatu Extension Centre, in association with the Institute of Pacific Studies at the University of the South Pacific, 1989
ISBN 9820200520