Talk:Fanla

This article doesn't meet Wikipedia rules for style, etc. But it is much too precious a document to delete. It represents far more authentic data than it would if it were transfigured into a supposedly universal encyclopedianism. It communicates a Vanuatan world-view that is psychologically as valid as our encyclopedic business-as-usual form-and-function. Sometimes it is our assumptions buttressing modern encyclopedianism that need to be scrutinized. But turning this into a bureaucrato-philic summary of Fanla would lose an opportunity of growth that, among other things, is what Wikipedia is about--because we're curious creatures who can be fascinated by a cloth woven differently from any other we've seen. Captain Cook approached the islands that he discovered with the aid of the scientific data of his time. But DISCOVERY challenges science. "Fanla" might like some objectivist supplement, but the main object is what it is; it is Fanla telling us what Fanla is via an encyclopedia note. We need to remember that Vanuatu is one place where oral authority is stronger in many ways...and so, what? I'm not sure how Wikipedia should deal with Oral Tradition of this pedigree, but some careful reflection is surely called for.Woilorio (talk) 23:09, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Captain Cook did not go to Ambrym, he sailed by the island, heading for Malakula. Hence I qualified the statement concerning an actual contact. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Krifka (talk • contribs) 04:41, 9 October 2010 (UTC)