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, 1942 MELANESIA Melanesia Espiritu Santo Island (SD 58-6) Choiseul Island (SB 57-4) Eromanga Island (SE 59-4) Russell Islands (SC 57-2) Vanikoro Island (SC 58-6) South Bougainville Island (SB 56-6) Malaita Island (SC ...
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, 2020 Linguistic Melanesia is the linguistically diverse area centred on the island of New Guinea. At its core the area is dominated by genealogically diverse Papuan languages, but also takes in a large number of languages of the Austronesian family ...
Matras, Yaron +2 more
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The Value of Tropical Biodiversity in Rural Melanesia
Valuation Studies, 2016 In this paper we discuss differences in the ways transnational conservationists and Melanesian farmers, hunters and fishers value ‘biodiversity’. The money for conservation projects in developing countries originates from people who are embedded in a ...
Simon Foale, Michelle Dyer, Jeff Kinch
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Community assembly of coral reef fishes along the Melanesian biodiversity gradient.
PLoS ONE, 2017 The Indo-Pacific is home to Earth's most biodiverse coral reefs. Diversity on these reefs decreases from the Coral Triangle east through the islands of Melanesia.
Joshua A Drew, Kathryn L Amatangelo
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A voyage in God's canoe: law and legislation in Melanesia
, 2001 A sense of the sacred permeates the cultures of Melanesia: a region among the world's most Christian but, at the same time, noted for the continuing influence of its indigenous beliefs and practices.
Mortensen, Reid
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Past, Present and Future Planning Philosophies in Melanesia
, 1996 One of the objectives of this paper is to find out how the initial planning philosophy has influenced the present planning process of the independent governments in Melanesia.
Rameng, Célestine, Kaitilla, Sababu
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Melanesian elites and modern politics in New Caledonia and Vanuatu
, 1998 Much research has been conducted into the processes of ‘invention of tradition’ and ‘construction of national identity’ in Melanesia often focusing on the opposition between tradition and modernity.
Wittersheim, Eric
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, 1949 38 p. ; 24 cm.Includes bibliographical references."Principal literature on the shore birds of northern Melanesia": p.
Mayr, Ernst, 1904- +1 more
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Contact and phylogeny in Island Melanesia
, 2009 This paper shows that despite evidence of structural convergence between some of the Austronesian and non-Austronesian (Papuan) languages of Island Melanesia, statistical methods can detect two independent genealogical signals derived from linguistic ...
Dunn, M., Dunn, Michael
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