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Small Island, Big Mission: Landscapes of Presbyterianism in Aniwa, Vanuatu (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "In Small Islands Forgotten: Insular Historical Archaeologies of a Globalizing World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In November 1866, following a failed attempt at establishing a mission on the neighbouring island of Tanna five years earlier, the Presbyterian missionary John G. Paton landed on the small coral atoll of Aniwa. The inhabitants of this Polynesian Outlier in Southern Vanuatu (formerly New...