Browsing A Collection for the Asia-Pacific Region by Subject "Melanesia"

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Cargo and condescension

Sullivan, Nancy (Divine Word University, 2005-11)

‘Cargoism’ is the widely used derivative of what used to be the great insult in colonial Melanesia, ‘cargo cultism.’ Now, however, it refers to all kinds of social, economic and institutional behavior that results from ...
Copyright and taboo

Golub, Alex (George Washington Institute for Ethnographic Research, 2004)
The Melanesians: Studies in their anthropology and folk-lore

Codrington, Robert Henry (Clarendon Press, 1891)
Sustainable Development as Cargo Cult: Strange Tales of Scale Making from Melanesia and Beyond

Golub, Alex (2007-12)

While the hyper-exotic discourse of 'cargo cult' continues to draw attention in popular media representations of Melanesia, many anthropologists have noted that the movements thus labeled represent a more general Melanesian ...
Taiwan Aboriginals and Peoples of the Pacific-Asia Region: Multivariate Craniometric Comparisons.

Pietrusewsky, Michael; Chang, Ching-fang (Anthropological Society of Nippon, 2003-11)

Stepwise discriminant function analysis and Mahalanobis’s generalized distance are applied to twenty-nine cranial measurements recorded in 2,531 male crania representing five Taiwan aboriginal cranial series and fifty ...