Talk:Tanna (island)

Media
I have added a section named media to the article discussing a channel 4 programme involving 5 ambassadors from the island. My writing is not the best, so if someone could have a look and maybe tidy it up that would be great. I think it is worth adding to the article as reference to the culture of tanna, and I would urge anyone who has not seen it to watch the show on you tube. It is one of the finest pieces of anthropological television I have seen in recent years. It will make you laugh and cry.


 * A reference to the culture of Tanna? It's a British reality TV show. The very title reveals it as an exploitative piece by British developers for British audiences. Unless it can be shown that that show had some actual, lasting cultural relevance, it should not be included in an encyclopedia, and especially not on the article about the island where these men happen to live.--Cúchullain t/ c 05:30, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Tom Navy
the us army has a small write up on Tom Navy http://www.army.mil/-news/2009/12/16/31908-travel-channel-profiles-fort-stewart-family/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.127.165.250 (talk) 03:15, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Sister Exchange
can someone please add a section on this? I heard last week from a family familiar and charitable to the tanna community that sister exchange still happens. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beroccaboy (talk • contribs) 11:08, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Paton and bombardment by HMS Curacoa

 * "When at last Paton returned to the New Hebrides he was the principal agent in the intervention of HMS Curacao (Commodore Wiseman RN) in Aug 1865. Led by Paton, the Presbyterian Mission Conference petitioned Wiseman about property loss, attacks on teachers and missionaries, and a general influence hostile to the Presbyterian mission. Paton, appointed by the Conference to accompany Commodore Wiseman as interpreter, was the main intermediary in the negotiations between Wiseman and the Tannese tribesmen, whom the Commodore threatened with violent retribution. Bombardment and an armed landing followed. Paton hoped the lessons dealt out would make the Tannese 'respect the lives and properties of British subjects' (Adams: 160). But the intervention seemed to be a linkage of church and state the RP church in Scotland in principle opposed. The incident was seized on by the Sydney press as evidence of vicious imperialism and hypocritical missionaries. Paton in particular was the target of much abuse. John Geddie, the senior missionary, complained that 'the way the Reformed Presbyterian Church has disposed of the affair is discreditable and unworthy of any body of Christian men' (Adams: 165). Commodore Wiseman, on the other hand insisted that the missionaries had no responsibility for his conduct of the affair. The incident remains controversial. Despite what he regarded as success in assaulting the evil he believed to be entrenched on Tanna, Paton never lived there again."

http://webjournals.ac.edu.au/journals/adeb/p/paton-john-gibson-1824-1907/

Ref: R Adams, In the Land of Strangers. A Century of European Contact with Tanna 1774-1874 (Canberra, 1984)Benvenuto (talk) 12:31, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

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Article name
User:Sagotreespirit renamed the page from Tanna (island) to Tanna Island, with the rationale to make piped linking easier and match with article title.

Most of the citations and external links just call it Tanna. On the Vanuatu government website I only found two articles, and  (both dated October 2017), using "Tanna Island". "Tanna" is ambiguous; I therefore suggest that the article should be moved back to use the qualifier "Tanna (island)". Links from other pages could still use Tanna Island as a hard redirect. – Fayenatic  L ondon 14:23, 24 September 2019 (UTC)