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The children of Melanesia. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The article presents several heart-warming stories of the children of Melanesia. It tells the story of Mosmeli whose mother died before she turned eight and spent most of her time with a church member who brought her to Sunday school where she met Miss ...
Karibule, Salome
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The Unseen City: Anthropological Perspectives on Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, by Michael Goddard (Book Review) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Review of the book "The Unseen City: Anthropological Perspectives on Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea", by Michael Goddard. “The Unseen City” that is the focus of this collection of essays is the part of Port Moresby that remains out of sight for most non ...
Barber, Keith
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Recapturing the spirit of 1971: towards a new regional political settlement in the Pacific [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper proposes ways to keep Australia and New Zealand within the Pacific Islands Forum and at the same time meet the concerns of the Pacific island states about ‘charting their own course’.
Greg Fry
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Islandness: Vulnerability and resilience in Oceania [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Pacific and other islands have long been represented as sites of vulnerability. Despite this, communities on many Pacific islands survived for millennia prior to the intrusion of people from Europe into their realm. An examination of traditional disaster
Campbell, John
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Linguistic Melanesia

open access: yes, 2020
I present a synthesis of some key areal features of Linguistic Melanesia. There are numerous overviews of typological characteristics of Melanesian languages (e.g., Foley 2000, Aikhenvald & Stebbins 2007), but the sheer number of languages in the area means these treatments are often skewed towards a small number (of subsets) of languages.
openaire   +3 more sources

Self Care of Mental Health Generation Z Of Melanesia Race In Indonesia

open access: diamond, 2023
Freodisa Meilisa Behuku   +2 more
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Semantics in Cultural Perspective Overview [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The article was to aim to investigate the semantics overview based on the cultural perspective. The aim of semantics is to discover why meaning is more complex than simply the words formed in a sentence.  Culture is a word for the \u27way of life ...
Florence, K. (Karrie)   +2 more
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The Bigman Metaphor for Entrepreneurship: A Library Tale with Morals on Alternatives for Further Research [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
Melanesian Bigmanship (a meritocratic, enacted career of political-economic leadership) is recounted as an anthropological metaphor for entrepreneurship. This “library tale” has two purposes.
Stewart, Alex
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Slaving in Australian courts: blackbirding cases, 1869-1871 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
This article examines major prosecutions in New South Wales and Queensland for blackbirding practices in Melanesian waters, and early regulation under the Imperial Kidnapping Act that was meant to correct problems those prosecutions raised.
Mortensen, Reid
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