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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"kastom"”.
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A living pharmacy : the practice of Kastom medicine in Honiara
… where little action has transpired to integrate kastom medicine into the national health system. While policies and strategies were created to foster the incorporation of traditional healers into the health system, their focus is associated with rural areas and static concepts of 'tradition'. …
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The concept of development in Ulawa in Solomon Islands and its implications for national development policy and planning
… in which, for the majority of Solomon Islanders, kastom (traditional beliefs and practices) and church (the beliefs and practices endorsed by the church) take precedence over the state as legitimate forms of authority. This inevitably poses problems for state-led development. If socio-economic …
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The role of culture in children’s sex-typed preferences for colours, toys, and affordances: A systems theory approach
… the Lake Imiria region of the Peruvian Amazon; kastom villages in the mountains of Tanna Island in Vanuatu in the South Pacific; children attending school in Lenakel town on Tanna Island; and in a large industrialised city in Australia. It also tested children’s colour preferences in three of …
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Not the way it really was : constructing the Tolai past
… how customs change, and how customs become kastom. In chapters 3, 5 and 12, Tolci constructions of the past are compared with those of Tami and Kotte people. It is argued that a different pattern of colonisation changes the way people look at their past, and that the making of history has …
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Not the way it really was : constructing the Tolai past
… how customs change, and how customs become kastom. In chapters 3, 5 and 12, Tolci constructions of the past are compared with those of Tami and Kotte people. It is argued that a different pattern of colonisation changes the way people look at their past, and that the making of history has …