... and hierarchical situations, Melanesians and others do speak to—and speak back to—an entangled world. For many, customary land is the place from which they speak. Moving beyond Melanesia and the Pacific, a metaphor of entanglement offers possibilities for thinking globally about the impacts...

... spread out across Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Due to the country's isolation, the early Hawaiian community adopted a number of cultural attitudes and behaviors that strengthened relations laterally within and among community members while also expressing a sacred relationship with the natural...

... voices. The anticolonial movement in New Caledonia engaged in just such a campaign as they pushed the idea of independence into the public political discourse. This chapter first discusses the Melanesia 2000 arts festival held at Magenta beach in September 1975 and organized by Kanak cultural leaders...

.... As such, it is important to analyze how AIDS is understood, accounted for, acted upon, and experienced in localized contexts. Since the AIDS epidemic is in relatively early stages in Melanesia, most of the accounts in this book are of cultural understandings built on incoming information of various kinds, from official...

...This chapter looks beyond the numbers about HIV to the nuances of desire among young people and the contexts of their lives in order to provide a fuller understanding of the experiences and vulnerability of young people in contemporary Melanesia. Surveys and ethnographic studies conducted in 2000...

...In Melanesia, rates of HIV infection are among the highest in the Pacific and increasing rapidly, with grave humanitarian, development, and political implications. There is a great need for social research on HIV/AIDS in the region to provide better insights into the sensitive issues surrounding...

... on a foundation of the newcomers' racial attitudes and limited knowledge. South of the equator, battles were fought in Melanesia, with Polynesia's islands behind the operational area. Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia were names given by outsiders to areas that to them had some kind of racial uniformity...

...This chapter aims to address self-fashioning and the body through an analysis of patterns on cloth and clothing brought into the region by Europeans. Taking Melanesia as the focal point, it traces the divergent perceptions of cloth and clothing as a form of newly introduced material, from...

...Traditions are forms of historical knowledge that elaborate on social practices and that are consciously orchestrated (e.g. as ceremonies or learning situations). A special kind of tradition puts weight on an assumed continuity with the past. In Melanesia these traditions are often referred...

...What can we learn about postcolonial history, culture, people, and processes of change in analyzing differences between how people imagined their nation might sound, and how it actually came to sound? The music and activity of a band in the largest nation in Melanesia, Papua New Guinea is explored...

..., and material cultural expressions. These analyses engage with broader concerns relating to colonial and postcolonial identities, political economy, and globalization in island Melanesia. The book combines original and substantial ethnography with theoretical reflection that will appeal broadly across the field...

...An overview of vital concerns in the circa-Independence era for Papua New Guinea, looking at the nature of Melanesian representation and a desire to create new national cultures building on Melanesian values. Crowdy Denis “hearing the future” phrase Melanesia Papua New Guinea PNG Sanguma...