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Biodiversity Synthesis meeting on the biogeography of Melanesia
Frontiers of Biogeography, 2009 Joshua Drew
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The Journal of Pacific History, 2013
The term ‘Melanesia’ is a partly geographic, partly cultural referent to a subregion of the island Pacific that has become very much part of ordinary descriptive language along with terms categorising other parts of the Pacific island world, namely Polynesia and Micronesia. Yet ‘Melanesia’ is much more than a descriptor.
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The term ‘Melanesia’ is a partly geographic, partly cultural referent to a subregion of the island Pacific that has become very much part of ordinary descriptive language along with terms categorising other parts of the Pacific island world, namely Polynesia and Micronesia. Yet ‘Melanesia’ is much more than a descriptor.
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Nature, 1961
THALASSAEMIA has previously been regarded as non-existent in Melanesians1. In August 1960, a Papuan female from the Milne Bay area of New Guinea, aged 18–20 yr., was admitted to the General Hospital, Port Moresby, for re-investigation of a refractory anaemia first noticed during pregnancy in 1957. On that occasion she had been delivered of a full-term,
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THALASSAEMIA has previously been regarded as non-existent in Melanesians1. In August 1960, a Papuan female from the Milne Bay area of New Guinea, aged 18–20 yr., was admitted to the General Hospital, Port Moresby, for re-investigation of a refractory anaemia first noticed during pregnancy in 1957. On that occasion she had been delivered of a full-term,
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Abstract This chapter traces the ethnographic study of religion in Melanesia from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Through this period, writings on religion in the region have not just reflected broader trends within anthropology but, beginning with Malinowski’s groundbreaking research, they have also had an outsized ...
John Barker, Dan Jorgensen
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John Barker, Dan Jorgensen
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The Pacification of Melanesia.
Man, 1985This volume challenges the conventional view that colonial rule and missionization determined the course of pacification in Melanesia. The only book on pacification in this region, the nine essays emphasize the interests and initiatives of islanders in the transition from tribal warfare to an enduring peace.
Marc Schiltz, M. Rodman, M. Cooper
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The Languages of Island Melanesia
2007Contains fulltext : 44789.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)
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