Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Maps, Figures, and Tables vii
4. Preface ix
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 “The Shortage of Women Is the Cause of These Courts”: Imbalanced Sex Ratios, Native Courts, and Marriage Disputes Made Public, 1910–1950 37
8. 2 “The Nurses Looked Out for Us!”: Hospital Births, Relational Infrastructures, and Public Concerns, 1950–1970 60
9. 3 “It Will Help Planning for the Future”: Making Men’s and Women’s “Subsistence” Public Knowledge in the First Census, 1966–1967 94
10. 4 “I Just Wanted to Be Invisible”: “Young Mothers” from Global Discourse to Village Experience, 2010–2020 127
11. 5 “Well-Being for Melanesia”: Alternative Indicators, Massage Healers, and Knowledge of Reciprocal Relationships, 2010–2021 158
12. Epilogue: Relations of Reproduction and Survival in the Anthropocene 183
13. Appendix One: Ni-Vanuatu Population Size, 1850–2020 193
14. Appendix Two: Overview of Biomedical Health Services in Vanuatu in 1954 195
15. Notes 201
16. References 209
17. Unpublished References 231
18. Index 235
19. Anthropological Horizons 245