Glo Oxenham has been awarded a QSM, in the New Year Honours, for services to Melanesian culture. Photo: Ross Giblin / Stuff Glorious Oxenham hopes recent publicity on the ongoing civil unrest in the ...

The recent reawakening of Melanesian culture and identity is deeply entwined with the movement for West Papuan independence. Like many First Nation peoples around the world, Melanesians had lived as a ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesia would attend and participate in the 7th Melanesian Arts and Culture Festival (MACFEST) 2023 in Port Villa, Vanuatu, from July 25 to 30, 2023. This is confirmed by the ...

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Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - Melanesia culture and spirituality, a holistic understanding of human and divine, was a good basis for announcing the Good News of Jesus Christ. In fact only 150 years since ...

Papua New Guinea has played host to a spectacular showcase of Pacific islands culture. The fifth Melanesian Festival of Arts and Culture, held from June 28 to July 11, brought together people from ...

TEMPO.CO, Kupang-The Ministry of Education and Culture launched "Melanesian Diaspora in the Indonesian Archipelago" during the Melanesian Cultural Festival 2015 in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara. “In the ...

As a curator in the anthropology department at the Field Museum for four decades, Phillip Harold Lewis made several trips to the village of Lesu on the island of New Ireland in Papua New Guinea. There ...

AT a meeting of the Royal Anthropological Institute held on October 11 Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, president, gave an account of the Melanesian system of land-tenure. He described the nature of the ownership ...

While Papua New Guinea has been in the news for its continuing political turmoil, the capital Port Moresby and surrounding towns have also been playing host to the Melanesian Festival of Arts and ...