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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Melanesia"”.
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The Interaction of western budgeting and Solomon Islands culture: A case of the budgeting process of the Church of Melanesia
… society. It uses the Anglican Church of Melanesia (CoM), a non-profit organisation in a developing country, Solomon Islands, as the case study. Its primary objective is to theorise on the process concepts explaining the influence of culture on the budgeting process, with specific …
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Carving the spirits of the wood: an enquiry into Trobriand materialisations
… over social change. Yet like elsewhere in Melanesia, Trobrianders face the transformations effected by dynamic processes of cultural, social and economic globalisation impinging upon their region. Overpopulation, food security issues and the partial collapse of traditional hierarchical …
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Evolutionary relationships in Afro-Malagasy Schefflera (Araliaceae) based on nuclear and plastid markers
… Asia, continental Africa and Madagascar, Melanesia, the Neotropics, and a small clade distributed throughout several islands in the insular Pacific Ocean. The Afro-Malagasy clade contains nearly 50 species distributed throughout tropical, sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, the Comoros, and …
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To and fro in the archipelago: Repeated inter-island dispersal, eustasy and New Guinea’s orogeny affect diversification of Delias, the world’s largest butterfly genus
… or to New Guinea and nearby islands in Melanesia. All species in the genus have brightly colored wing patterns, presumably as warning coloration. However, probable factors explaining the species-richness of this genus remain unclear. Previous studies lacked sufficient data and sampled …
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Post-Lapita Fiji: cultural transformation in the mid-sequence
… with the greater cultural diversity found in Melanesia. This thesis charts, through in-depth analysis of ceramics gathered primarily from two field excavations (Navatu 17A and Ugaga Island) and one museum collection (Karobo VL H3/1),the Importance of Internal processes as drivers for Fiji's …
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Post-Lapita Fiji: cultural transformation in the mid-sequence
… with the greater cultural diversity found in Melanesia. This thesis charts, through in-depth analysis of ceramics gathered primarily from two field excavations (Navatu 17A and Ugaga Island) and one museum collection (Karobo VL H3/1),the Importance of Internal processes as drivers for Fiji's …
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Alaskan Eskimo and Polynesian Island Population Skeletal Anatomy: The "Pacific Paradox" Revisited Through Surface Area to Body Mass Comparisons
… collection could be considered part of Melanesia. Migration patterns, founder effect through disease frequencies, nutritional effects and cultural traits along with many other issues are presented when examining the similarities and differences the Polynesian population has in comparison …
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Alaskan Eskimo and Polynesian Island Population Skeletal Anatomy: The "Pacific Paradox" Revisited Through Surface Area to Body Mass Comparisons
… collection could be considered part of Melanesia. Migration patterns, founder effect through disease frequencies, nutritional effects and cultural traits along with many other issues are presented when examining the similarities and differences the Polynesian population has in comparison …
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Patterns in glass : obsidian and economic specialisation in the Admiralty Islands
… thesis considers the association between western Melanesian ethnographic economic specialisation and prehistoric systems of production and distribution. Contrasting theories for the development of historical specialisation are reviewed and the criticism made that these are chronologically limited …
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Patterns in glass : obsidian and economic specialisation in the Admiralty Islands
… thesis considers the association between western Melanesian ethnographic economic specialisation and prehistoric systems of production and distribution. Contrasting theories for the development of historical specialisation are reviewed and the criticism made that these are chronologically limited …
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The leadership practices of Anglican school leaders in the Solomon Islands: leading for social justice
… Learning, Useful Industry (Anglican Church of Melanesia, 2018) and Thaman’s (1988) Kakala notion with critical theoretical perspectives for data analysis and theory formation. Key findings demonstrated that tensions arose for the school leaders when it came to aligning the Anglican values of …
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Articulating kin groups and mines : the case of the Gold Ridge Mining Project in the Solomon Islands
… exerting major changes on traditional culture in Melanesia. The dilemma is in finding the balance, if there is any such thing between natural resources development for nation building and the survival of cultural groups that have always depended on those environmental areas accessed for commercial …
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Articulating kin groups and mines : the case of the Gold Ridge Mining Project in the Solomon Islands
… exerting major changes on traditional culture in Melanesia. The dilemma is in finding the balance, if there is any such thing between natural resources development for nation building and the survival of cultural groups that have always depended on those environmental areas accessed for commercial …
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The three hearths: Custom, church and state as colliding orders of time and space in Asmat, Indonesian Papua
This study examines the intersection of ‘customary’ ritual, Catholic religion, and state-centred politics among the Asmat of Indonesian Papua, and how these processes order time and space. Asmat are famous in anthropological and museum worlds for their woodcarving, flamboyant ritual, and …