ABSTRACT
The anthropological film project is seen as an effort to work along the lines together with the Vaiakau and Fenualoa peoples in the Reef Islands. The life of these people is firmly but marginally integrated into the modern world realities of global capitalism and the utterly dependent state, Solomon Islands. These facts seen in a local historical perspective are clearly of vital importance for an understanding of the recently growing cultural awareness and the wish to put into film certain of the distinctive social ceremonies and other aspects of the cultural tradition. For quite a number of years we have witnessed in the Pacific an intensification of phenomena generally labelled ‘cultural inheritance’ and ‘tradition’. Historically the social and cultural scene of today is mainly a result of the interchange between the local peoples and the expanding global system.
