If Everyone Returned, The Island Would Sink

If Everyone Returned, The Island Would SinkFocusing on the small island of Paama, Vanuatu, and the capital, Port Vila, this book presents a rare and recent study of the ongoing significance of urbanisation and internal migration in the Global South. Based on longitudinal research undertaken in rural home places, urban suburbs and informal settlements over thirty years, this book reveals the deep ambivalence of the outcome of migration, and argues that continuity in the fundamental organising

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Historian Nicolaas Biegman has been observing and photographing Sufi practice and ritual in different Muslim lands for many years

This chapter gives background information on the practical and statistical principles behind both ground-based and remote sensing-based forest measurement and monitoring

but one that has been written out of the record

while being systematically connected to the others as well

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Selfhood and Authenticity articulates the phenomenological constitution by which social construction is a real possibility

Contains several examples of the use of imaging anatomic landmarks in the performance of interventional spine procedures

Arguing that the early German Romantics initiated an original movement away from idealism

while also illustrating key social and environmental factors critical for understanding disease spread and its effect on population health

The book traces its historical and political origins and focuses on its economic consequences

Most fragments dealt with here are from ritual