The seventh Melanesian Arts and Culture Festival (MACFEST), which was postponed due to the pandemic, has returned to the Pacific region and spirits are high. Melanesia is a subregion of the ...

the capital Port Moresby and surrounding towns have also been playing host to the Melanesian Festival of Arts and Culture. The two-week long event takes place every four years, and was initiated ...

This close agreement, contrasting with the great diversity of other aspects of Melanesian culture, was held to indicate that the communal ownership of land was an early, though not necessarily the ...

Millicent Barty has spent years trying to decolonize her country, recording oral histories across the Solomon Islands and promoting Melanesian culture. Her goal: to prioritize local knowledge ...

which in future no serious student of culture in its broadest terms will be able to pass by. The Sexual Life of Savages in North- Western. Melanesia: an Ethnographic Account of Courtship ...

"We want to tell the hierarchy that they should not just adopt the foreign liturgy but also the Melanesian culture. We never see Sunday Masses or services held in our own language and songs," he said.