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No egalitarianism in the Wa hills: relative commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war Nul égalitarisme dans les hautes terres Wa : commensuration relative dans la parenté, le sacrifice et la guerre

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 85-103, March 2026.
The autonomy of the United Wa State Army of Myanmar today is said to be based on the egalitarianism of Wa communities in the past. The analysis of commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war challenges these portrayals of autonomy and egalitarianism.
Hans Steinmüller
wiley   +1 more source

The Psychology of Consensus in Melanesia

Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 2007
Consensus is an essential ingredient for conflict resolution, reconciliation, agreement, and peace in Melanesian societies. The psychological aspects of its positive influence in establishing a common ground between conflicting parties have not been ...
Leo Marai
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Practising Politics in a Disorderly Democracy

Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 72, Issue 1, Page 108-122, March 2026.
Taking as its starting point Ron May's scholarship on Papua New Guinea as a “disorderly democracy,” this article examines how politics is practised in the PNG Parliament. Using a case study of the events of late 2020, when a vote of no confidence against the Marape government was mooted but eventually failed to materialise, it adopts a practice theory ...
Kerryn Baker
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Slaving in Australian courts: blackbirding cases, 1869-1871 [PDF]

, 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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Networking Phylogeny for Indo-European and Austronesian Languages [PDF]

, 2009
Harnessing cognitive abilities of many individuals, a language evolves upon their mutual interactions establishing a persistent social environment to which language is closely attuned. Human history is encoded in the rich sets of linguistic data by means
Dimitri Volchenkov, Filippo Petroni, Maurizio Serva, Philippe Blanchard   +3 more
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Applying WHO Prioritization Criteria for Moderate Wasting: Programmatic Implications

Maternal &Child Nutrition, Volume 22, Issue 1, March 2026.
The WHO 2023 anthropometric and age‐based prioritization criteria for moderate wasting classify most of the children as high priority in a MUAC‐based enrollment protocol for wasting treatment. ABSTRACT The World Health Organization's 2023 recommendations for managing moderate wasting provide criteria for prioritizing children to receive specially ...
Isabel Potani, Zachary Tausanovitch, Grace Heymsfield, Christian Ritz, Cecile Cazes, Philip T. James, André Briend, Issa Niamanto Coulibaly, Jessie Jane Khaki, Geoffrey Manda, Osborne Potani, James A. Berkley, Jeanette Bailey, Suvi T. Kangas   +13 more
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Les relations entre l’école et la communauté aux Îles Salomon : le point de vue des responsables éducatifs

Revue Internationale d’Éducation de Sèvres
This case study sketches leadership negotiation in Solomon Islands, an archipelago in Melanesia. In Melanesia, kastom, church, and institutional domains compete for influence. School leaders work in the institutional domain but must negotiate with kastom
Kabini Sanga, Martyn Reynolds
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How Global Biodiversity Targets Risk Becoming Counterproductive: The Case of Papua New Guinea

Conservation & Society, 2012
Despite the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) defining 20 targets across 5 strategic goals, Target 11, which relates to protected areas, has received the most emphasis from donors, non-government organisations, and governments, as a performance ...
David R Melick, Jeff P Kinch, Hugh Govan
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Global cancer statistics for children: Two decades of change and projections to 2050

CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Volume 76, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
Abstract Reliable, contemporary estimates of the global childhood cancer burden remain scarce, particularly in the post‐coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) era. By using data from the Global Burden of Disease 2021 and Global Cancer Observatory 2022 projects, the authors evaluated the childhood cancer burden at global, regional, and national levels ...
Wangzhong Li, Shanzhou Huang, Qiyue Chen, Ting Wang, Guanming Lu, Xing Niu, Qiong Song, Yilin Xu, Ke Mo, Chunhui Cui, Run Zhang, Wei Du, Feiying He, Lei Shi, Yan Lin, Qiu Wei, Li Jiang, Yongsheng Chen, Baiyang Song, Huijuan Zhang, Zhenli Fu, Wenjing Liao, Jiancong Sun, Wenhui Guan, Weitao Zhuang, Nanshan Zhong, Chengzhi Zhou, Wenhua Liang, Min Kang, Jianxing He   +29 more
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From Intervention to Partnership—Prospects for Development Partnership in Solomon Islands after the RAMSI

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 2014
This article considers prospects for effective development partnership in Solomon Islands following the transition of development assistance from the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) to bilateral donors in 2013.
Julien Barbara
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