How To Use Melanesia In A Sentence
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What are the most inclusive linguistic groupings, the linguistic stocks, and what is the distribution of each (e.g., the Hamitic languages of northern Africa, the Bantu languages of the south; the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Indonesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia)?
Chapter 10. Language, Race and Culture
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Within the Pacific Islands region are the subregions of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia.
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Both performances drew heavily on Melanesian sounds - interspersed with high energy chanting, drumming and dancing.
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This book is an important contribution to Melanesian ethnography and anthropology.
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This anthropological synthesis of syncretism and Melanesian partible personhood thus constitutes an extension of the new Melanesian ethnography toward the analysis of recent historical and religious change in the Pacific.
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That there has been a slight Melanesian drift in the period of the northwest monsoon, is also evident.
MAUKI
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The Hula and the Motu are only two of many Melanesian societies that have been Christianised for more than a century and we have seen here the problematic engagement of Christianity in the matters of history and tradition.
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Kai-kai is the Polynesian for food, meat, eating, and to eat; but it would be hard to say whether it was introduced into Melanesia by the sandalwood traders or by the Polynesian westward drift.
"Too Much" English
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But historical baggage, particularly over predominantly Melanesian Timor and Papua, fears of Islam and negative media attitudes on both sides, will keep the two more distant than they should be.
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While the Koita belong to the Papuan stock and speak a Papuan language, most of the men understand the Motu tongue, which is one of the Melanesian family.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
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The Melanesian parliamentarians were mostly in favour of village courts.
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Daramulun, Bunjil of Australia, [1147] perhaps Supu of the Melanesian island of Vate.
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV
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Women play important roles in ceremonial and political life in many Melanesian societies.
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The peoples with the oval-axe culture are the so-called Papuan peoples in Melanesia; they, too, migrated from southern China, probably before the others.
A History of China
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Modern humans have occupied New Guinea and the nearby Bismarck and Solomon archipelagos of Island Melanesia for at least 40,000 years.
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Thus the various ritual capacities of North Mekeo chiefs and sorcerers typify the sort of interpersonal agency implicit in Melanesian personal partibility.
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Much of the indigenous Melanesian population opposes Indonesian rule and see the government—and their allies at Freeport—as occupiers.
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The book thereby instantiates the very same dynamics as constitutes her prototypical Melanesian agent.
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On German plantations and wherever individuals speaking different languages met, a pidgin language referred to as Neo-Melanesian or Melanesian Pidgin developed.
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Although Siaguru's urbanity and often sarcastic wit will make the book engaging reading for Europeans with a concern for the fate of the nation, I suspect it will be less attractive for all but a handful of Melanesian readers.
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And they're visible most particularly in two aspects of church life: one is the powerfully strong commitment to synodical government, the participation of all members of the body of Christ in its decision-making; and the other is in the really remarkable embrace of indigenous culture that characterised Selwyn's mission and was echoed in the sacrificial work of John Coleridge Patteson, a martyr of Melanesia.
Archbishop Celebrates Selwyn College's 125th Anniversary
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So rarely are Polynesian, Micronesian, or Melanesian news items featured in the US media, that the image of dreamy tropic islands persists in the western imagination.
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Now known as Tok Pisin, Melanesian Pidgin is spoken throughout Papua New Guinea.
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Udvardy placed all the ecoregions in the New Guinea and Melanesia bioregion, with the exception of New Caledonia, into the Papuan biogeographic province of the Oceanian Realm.
Vanuatu rain forests
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In this the ancient was in nowise unlike the rest of his dark - skinned Melanesian race.
CHAPTER 2
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A member of any of the indigenous peoples of Melanesia.
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Kai-kai is the Polynesian for food, meat, eating, and to eat: but it would be hard to say whether it was introduced into Melanesia by the sandalwood traders or by the Polynesian westward drift.
Chapter 16
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All five of the monotypic genera qendemic to Northern Melanesia are confined to the Solomons.
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Van Remsen, curator of birds at the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science, said that this new frogmouth genus serves as a poignant reminder that birds of the tropics, particularly from southeast Asia to Melanesia, have been paid scant attention by science.
Archive 2007-04-01
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The sago palm is an important foodstuff in parts of the lowland areas of Melanesia.