• Ahamb (Malekula, Vanuatu) – Language Context 

      Rangelov, Tihomir; Bratrud, Tom; Barbour, Julie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The Ahamb language is spoken by around 950 people, most of whom reside on the small Ahamb Island off the south coast of Malekula, the second largest island in the Republic of Vanuatu in the South Pacific. Ahamb is one of ...
    • Ambiguity in a Charismatic Revival: Inverting Gender, Age and Power Relations in Vanuatu 

      Bratrud, Tom (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      During a Christian revival movement on Ahamb Island in Vanuatu in 2014, gender- and age-based hierarchies were inverted as women and children were given divine authority and men were positioned as threats to sociopolitical ...
    • Fear and Hope in Vanuatu Pentecostalism 

      Bratrud, Tom (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Abstract. This article discusses the co-creation of fear and hope in the context of the rapid growth of Pentecostal Christianity in Vanuatu in the South Pacific. I take as my starting point how the conjoining of these ...
    • Paradoxes of (In)security and Moral Regeneration in Vanuatu and Beyond 

      Bratrud, Tom (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      This article examines some paradoxical intersections of fear, security, and morality on Ahamb Island in Vanuatu in the South Pacific. I take as my ethnographic vantage point a child-led Christian revival movement that ...