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	Melanesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Melanesian people have a Y chromosome marker, H17, that is not found in Polynesians.
		Lapita pottery is Melanesian in origin, and can be found on islands since occupied by other people.
		Melanesians are considered the oldest of the Pacific peoples.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Melanesia (283 words)

	OSC: In the Matter of Melanesian Minerals Corporation - Order (Section 144) - CVMO: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Melanesian is a reporting issuer in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia, having become such on or about September 29, 1997 upon the filing of a prospectus in each of these jurisdictions.
		Melanesian's authorized capital consists of an unlimited number of common shares ("Melanesian Shares"), of which 14,170,598 are issued and outstanding as fully paid and non-assessable.
		Melanesian believes that the 2002 Interim Statements would not provide additional useful information concerning the present or future operations or financial circumstances of Melanesian because during the period covered by the 2002 Interim Statements Melanesian was inactive.
	www.osc.gov.on.ca /Regulation/Orders/2004/ord_20040730_222_melanesian.jsp (2094 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The 300-island archipelago of Fiji is at the bottom of the Melanesian chain of islands south from New Guinea.
		The archipelago is bound on the west by the Yasawas, the closest islands of the Fiji group to the Melanesian islands of Vanuatu.
		Melanesian influence is particularly marked among the Yasawa population, notably with regard to phisiogomy, language and socio-religious characteristics.
	www.tribalsite.com /articles/fiji.htm (1862 words)

	Melanesian Brotherhood wins the 4th Pacific Human Rights Awards
		The Melanesian Brotherhood -- the largest religious community in the Anglican Communion -- was awarded the first prize in the regional category of the 4th Pacific Human Rights Awards, for its active role in peacemaking and reconciliation during the 1999 and 2000 ethnic conflict in the Solomon Islands.
		In this regard, the Melanesian Brotherhood was recognized for its active involvement in peacemaking efforts that finally led to a ceasefire and the signing of the Townsville Peace Agreement in October 2000 between the two warring parties in the Solomon Islands.
		The Melanesian Brotherhood is one of the four religious communities of the Church of the Province of Melanesia in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific.
	www.anglican.ca /news/news.php?newsItem=2004-02-27_brothers.news (516 words)

	Melanesian Religions
		Melanesian religion contained a multiplicity of gods, culture heroes and spirits with varied characters and roles.
		Particular powers were associated with creation, the sustenance of the cosmos, war, fecundity, prosperity and welfare, and had to be placated through a variety of rites and sacrifices in order to ensure the group's success and well-being.
		A degree of independence has, however, been established within Melanesian Christianity through the formation of indigenised churches and theologies.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/westoc/melan.html (551 words)

	The Significance of Modern Cults in Melanesian Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		First, there is the understandable Administrative view that these are dangerous movements, interrupting Melanesian life, threatening good order, and evidencing the unhealthy despotic powers of sorcerers who, by trickery, have bullied the local people, and who make their fortune by the sale of their tricks.
		The traditional Melanesian method of avoiding unwanted leaders is simply to move somewhere else, found a new village, grow new gardens, or retaliate by counter-sorcery or murder.
		I think it is most significant that the two extremes of Melanesian life do not appear so far to have succumbed to these cults, though they have problems of their own.
	www.anthropologising.ca /writing/cargo.htm (3553 words)

	A Melanesian Reflection
		Selwyn's establishment of the Melanesian Mission in 1849 and Strachan's founding of Trinity College in 1851 both embodied a vision of holistic Catholic Christianity for the frontiers of their societies.
		Many Melanesian cultures are exogamous, where there is a tradition of taking a wife or husband from the "other", perhaps from some place far away, to build relationships with potential or even real enemies.
		Melanesian patterns of touch, of course, are part of the understanding of the person as essentially relational and corporate.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~lcrew/dojustice/j189.html (2052 words)

	The Religion Report: 21 July 2004 - Melanesian Brotherhood murders
		The Melanesian Brotherhood are a group of young men, generally aged between their early twenties and mid thirties who take vows of poverty chastity and obedience within the Anglican church; but the vows are temporary.
		Many people chose to to surrender to the Brothers, because it was not just relinquishing weapons, but it was a real rite of purification, and in many cases when the weapons were collected, they had a liturgy to express that forgiveness, in a sense a reconciliation and a letting go of all of that violence.
		The Melanesian Brotherhood had two community households right in the thick of this, and indeed there were brothers and novices that were marched down to the beach that day.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/8.30/relrpt/stories/s1156164.htm (3919 words)

	Fr Henry Paroi - How Do We Identify Melanesian Christians?
		The majority of Melanesians are Christian, and they are beginning to realise that they can only understand God better and express their faith in God better, through their own terms in life.
		Therefore today, the Melanesians are trying to grow and develop with the help of their own ways as influenced by their cultures and their way of life in whatever situation they are in.
		As a Melanesian, I have a feeling that although we have many good and committed Christians, we still have to challenge ourselves whether we are truly, and in all honesty loyal to the message of Christ.
	www.sedos.org /english/paroi.htm (10574 words)

	Rhetorics: a blurred image of reality - navigating the waters of Melanesian thought, Andrew Moutu, Papua New Guinea ...
		Melanesian societies now share a similar history of colonialism, pacification and missionisation, political independence, the introduction of the cash economy and formal education (which is now a part of our heritage).
		Having briefly discussed the Melanesian cosmology, I now examine the concept of development as it is being used in the context of resource development by multinational companies.
		Melanesian systems of exchanges are based on an in-built model of social reproduction which is visible in various types of social relationships.
	www.pngbuai.com /600technology/information/waigani/w97-moutu.html (5643 words)

	Creation of Melanesian Property Rights – Building Bridges betwe
		Insights by Hernando de Soto are employed to evaluate the potential of developing a formal property system that will enable the majority of citizens to participate in the modern economy while maintaining the integrity of their customary group and their land holdings.
		Melanesian group ownership and customary tenure imposes certain limitations on individuation and alienability of land.
		Before examining the applicability of se Soto’s effects of property to Melanesian property it may be useful to examine the levels or layers of ownership that may be discerned for property.
	www.pngbuai.com /300socialsciences/management/land-development/creation-property-rights/part1-creation-melanesian-property-rights030802.html (2578 words)

	Melanesian languages -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Melanesian languages, of which there are about 400, are most closely related to the languages of Micronesia and Polynesia; most have a few hundred or a few thousand speakers, and the total number of speakers of...
		Melanesian Pidgin has also become the lingua franca of Papua New Guinea, where several hundred native languages are spoken, most of them being mutually incomprehensible.
		Melanesian language of the Eastern, or Oceanic, branch of the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) language family.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9051868?tocId=9051868 (814 words)

	Biodiversity Hotspots - East Melanesian Islands - Unique and Threated Biodiversity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Because most of the islands of this hotspot have never been in land contact with New Guinea, their fauna and flora are a mix of recent long-distance immigrants and indigenous lineages derived from ancient Pacific-Gondwanaland species.
		For the most part, the East Melanesian Islands is one typified by skinks and geckos, and the majority of the hotspot’s more than 110 species of reptiles (nearly half of which are endemic) are members of the families Gekkonidae and Scincidae.
		Roughly 90 percent of amphibian population in the East Melanesian Islands Hotspot are endemic.
	www.biodiversityhotspots.org /xp/Hotspots/east_melanesia/biodiversity.xml (984 words)

	Port Vila Presse Online Vanuatu News :: Melanesian Brotherhood going beyond Melanesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Independent understands that the Anglican Church in Jerusalem is requesting the presence of the Melanesian Brotherhood in the Holy Land.
		The order of the Melanesian Brotherhood was born in 1925, founded by Ini-Kopuria, a Solomon Islander from Guadalcanal.
		It is true the men of the Melanesian Brotherhood have come a long way carrying out their missionary work, and now they are going well beyond Melanesia.
	www.news.vu /en/living/religion/melanesian-brotherhood-go.shtml (838 words)

	Melanesian culture -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Many of the island clusters within these culture areas are separated by vast stretches of ocean, and the resultant isolation, together with the wide range of environmental conditions...
		Melanesians and Europeans are the two principal ethnic groups, forming 43 and 37 percent of the population, respectively.
		The indigenous peoples of much of the Melanesian region are now part of the world economic system and are subjected to pressures of Christianization and Westernization.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9117353?tocId=9117353&query=melanesia (893 words)

	Melanesian Religion - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This study surveys systematically the full scope of Melanesian religion, from traditional beliefs and practices to the development of strong indigenous Christian churches and theology.
		Melanesian Religion provides an invaluable guide and analysis to pressing issues of religious and social change in the Pacific.
		The Melanesian peoples of the south-west Pacific form about one-quarter of the world’s cultures - cultures in which a deep sense of spiritual consciousness has engendered rich diversity of religious experience.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/print.asp?isbn=0521607485&print=y (229 words)

	MELANESIAN TRUST ENDORSES PAPUA INDEPENDENCE - November 15, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Conference was attended by Melanesian representatives from Papua New Guinea, West Papua, Kanaky, Solomons, Fiji and Vanuatu chiefs.
		The 8th Melanesian Trust conference called on Melanesian leaders to support the initiative taken by the Vanuatu government that the UN reviews the conduct of Free Choice of 1969.
		The conference endorsed a proposal by the Vanuatu National Council of Chiefs, Malvatumauri, that a Conference of Melanesian Chiefs be held to discuss the struggle of their Melanesian brothers and sisters.
	pidp.eastwestcenter.org /pireport/2004/November/11-15-04.htm (530 words)

	Health page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Melanesian is a descriptive term of a person who is melanized or melanin-like, as the term Christian describes one who is Christ-like.
		Melanesian then is a true and non-offensive description of people who have melanin in their skin.
		The reason I mentioned earlier that the one who first uttered the word “Melanesian” knew a lot about the skin is because, as you will see, he/she took that term out of my textbooks.
	www.thenational.com.pg /0107/health6.htm (779 words)

	APPENDIX
		Assuming the average Melanesian is five feet and seven inches tall, there are shorter and taller ones and they all may be illustrated in a bell-shaped curve.
		The Melanesian uses 'taim' with the weather and the seasons such as `taim bilong ren' (rainy season), `taim bilong hangre' (season of hunger), `taim bilong san' (dry season), `taim nogut' (bad weather), `mit tambu taim' (lent), etc.
		Like time, the Melanesian looks at space from his sense of meaning according to which space is significant insofar as it concerns his community or group.
	www.crvp.org /book/Series03/III-8/appendix.htm (5418 words)

	Port Vila Presse Online Vanuatu News :: Vanuatu's Abill suggests Melanesian bloc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He raised the issue to emphasise that Melanesian countries are the richest South Pacific nations, in terms of natural resources as compared to other island nations, including Australia and New Zealand.
		The Melanesian countries are Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and West Papua.
		The Melanesian Spearhead Group was established in 1986 as a result of that commitment.
	www.news.vu /en/news/RegionalNews/050222-abill-suggests-melanesian-bloc.shtml (437 words)

	Indonesia: West Melanesian flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		At a function hosted by the local West Papuan independence association I saw a flag that the West Papuan representative called "a West Melanesian Flag", consisting of of a vertical green rectangle covering the left hand third of the flag and fourteen white seven pointed stars within the rectangle (looking somewhat like a crucifix).
		I found some biographical notes which clarify a bit what the "West Melanesian Flag" is supposed to stand for.
		One of the members of the Melanesian yahoo group suggested to me an explanation for the number (14) of the stars featured on the flag.
	www.flagspot.com /flags/id-wmel.html (445 words)

	Melanesian Discoverer
		The Melanesian Discoverer accommodates 42 passengers in twin, lower berths and queensize beds all with private bathroom, television, telephone and music system.
		The "Melanesian Discoverer" is under Bereau Veritas Survey and crewed by qualified officers, crew and dive staff.
		You have the rare opportunity to dive in untouched waters of the many exotic remote pristine reefs, volcanic seamounts teeming with sea life, dramatic drop-offs and an assortment of brightly colored tropicals as well as pelagics.
	www.papuanewguineatravel.com /liveaboards/melanesiandisc/md.htm (167 words)

	Biodiversity Hotspots - East Melanesian Islands - Conservation Action
		Overall, protected area coverage in the East Melanesian Islands is almost non-existent.
		Because of the current lack of large-scale conservation action in the East Melanesian Islands, the region is in urgent need of increased conservation attention and investment.
		Priorities are to address the difficulties of conservation on uncodified customary land, to develop successful and mutually beneficial partnerships with local communities, to address the threat of alien invasive species, and to promote the establishment of healthy and secure protected areas.
	www.biodiversityscience.org /xp/Hotspots/east_melanesia/conservation.xml (592 words)

	Annual Meeting - NGOs - Papua New Guinea - ADB.org
		The Melanesian Women's Skill Banks' primary purpose is to promote and sustain the positive Melanesian culture, which does not discriminate against women.
		This pool of professional Melanesian women would be readily available to offer their expertise in all aspects of the country's development.
		The Melanesian Women's Skill Bank encourages women to be more appreciative of their Melanesian identity and values and traditional way of life.
	www.adb.org /AnnualMeeting/2002/NGOs/PNG.asp (243 words)

	Sociology of Religion: Payback: The Logic of Retribution in Melanesian Religions. - book reviews
		He argues that everyday human transactions in the region are explicable within the framework of Melanesian religious cosmology and collective practices; violence, inter-tribal warfare, sorcery, witchcraft, magic, and acts of extravagant generosity characteristic of Melanesian groups are, according to Trompf, shaped by Melanesian religious beliefs.
		He shows that acts of aggression and conflict are informed by principles rooted in Melanesian spiritual thinking about how human beings must respond to wrongdoing if they are to save face and uphold the identity and solidarity of the group.
		He also shows that generous gift exchanges reflect Melanesian understanding of reciprocal social rights and obligations as well as their ideas about well-being; in this cosmos, groups are morally and spiritually bound to give and to receive goods, services, and hospitality.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0SOR/is_n4_v56/ai_17841597 (850 words)

	SSHL: Melanesian Studies Resource Center & Melanesian Archive: Donor Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Melanesian Archive is a collection of unpublished documentation pertaining to the peoples, cultures, languages, and history of Melanesia.
		The Melanesian Archive is a joint project between the UCSD Department of Anthropology and the UCSD Libraries.
		Users of materials in the Melanesian Archive are responsible for communicating with the holder of copyright concerning permissions to quote extensively or otherwise publish copyrighted material from our collections.
	sshl.ucsd.edu /melanesia/donor.htm (604 words)

	Vanuatu - The Melanesian, Port Vila
		You immediately experience the friendliness of the gracious ni-Vanuatu people with their warm welcoming smiles and hospitable nature from the moment you arrive at The Melanesian Port Vila.
		The Melanesian's Sunset and Oasis Bars are popular rendezvous after a days tourist activity and if Lady Luck is with you, Club 21 Gaming Lounge is just the place.
		The Melanesian's recreational facilities include a deep, expansive swimming pool with children's pool, two floodlit tennis courts, and the "Club 21" Gaming Lounge.
	www.talpacific.com /vanuatu/themelanesian (341 words)

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