ABSTRACT
Mobility among the traditional societies of Vanuatu, formerly the New Hebrides, can be gleaned through old people's recollection, through traditions that still survive, and especially through the functioning of local groups that have maintained their customary environment. Based upon fieldwork carried out in east Aoba, central Pentecost, Tongoa, and Tanna (Fig. 4.1), Melanesian societies appear to comprise social groups or micro-groups that are clearly demarcated and divided, independent of one another, and mutually suspicious.
