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kastom

Description: A Melanesian concept encompassing Indigenous traditions, customary practices, and cultural knowledge, particularly in Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea.
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Women of Value, Men of Renown: New Perspectives in Trobriand Exchange
1979 · Susan P. Montague, Annette B. Weiner · Ethnohistory · 427
Participatory methods of incorporating scientific with traditional knowledge for volcanic hazard management on Ambae Island, Vanuatu
2004 · Shane J. Cronin, David R. Gaylord, et al. · Bulletin of Volcanology · 222
Women of the Place: Kastom, Colonialism and Gender in Vanuatu
1993 · Margaret Jolly · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 141
Kastom in Melanesia: An Overview
2009 · RQGER M. KEESING · The Australian Journal of Anthropology · 131
Unfolding the moon: enacting women's kastom in Vanuatu
2003 · Bolton, Lissant, 1954- · Choice Reviews Online · 125
The Wantok System as a Socio-economic and Political Network in Melanesia
2011 · Gordon Leua Nanau · OMNES The Journal of Multicultural Society · 110
Differentiating Development: Beyond an Anthropology of Critique
2012 · Soumhya Venkatesan, Thomas Yarrow · Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) · 102
National Identity and the Problem of Kastom in Vanuatu
2009 · ROBERT TONKINSON · The Australian Journal of Anthropology · 91
Colonialism, Maasina Rule, and the Origins of Malaitan Kastom
2013 · David W. Akin · University of Hawaii Press eBooks · 88
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Voyaging through the contemporary Pacific
2000 · David L. Hanlon, Geoffrey M. White · 88
Contextual flexibility
1998 · Edvard Hviding · Ocean & Coastal Management · 83
Cultural/Ethnology: Reinventing Traditional Culture: The Politics of Kastom in Island Melanesia. Roger M. Keesing and Robert Tonkinson, eds
1984 · David Counts · American Anthropologist · 76
Women's Rights, Human Rights and Domestic Violence in Vanuatu
1996 · Margaret Jolly · Feminist Review · 70
Handling Sorcery in a State System of Law: Magic, Violence and Kastom in Vanuatu.
2010 · Knut Rio · Oceania · 68
Kastom and Anticolonialism on Malaita: “Culture” as Political Symbol
2009 · ROGER M. KEESING · The Australian Journal of Anthropology · 68
Leftamap Kastom: The Political History of Tradition on Tanna, Vanuatu
2009 · LMQNT LINDSTROM · The Australian Journal of Anthropology · 65
Christian Citizens: Women and Negotiations of Modernity in Vanuatu
2002 · Bronwen Douglas · ˜The œContemporary Pacific/˜The œcontemporary Pacific (Online) · 58
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Ancestral Vigilance and the Corrective Conscience
2004 · David Akin · Anthropological Theory · 57
Your OwnBuaiYou Must Buy: The Ideology of Possessive Individualism in Papua New Guinea
2007 · Keir Martin · Anthropological Forum · 55
Strathern's Melanesian ‘dividual’ and the Christian ‘individual’: a Perspective from Vanua Lava, Vanuatu
2006 · Sabine Hess · Oceania · 54
Custom, Law and Ideology in Papua New Guinea
2006 · Colin Filer · The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology · 54
Tuberculosis patients’ knowledge and beliefs about tuberculosis: a mixed methods study from the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu
2014 · Kerri A Viney, Penelope Johnson, et al. · BMC Public Health · 52
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The Politics of Tradition: Toward a Generic Culture in Vanuatu
2010 · JEAN-MARC PHILIBERT · The Australian Journal of Anthropology · 52
The Social Life of Rights: ‘Gender Antagonism’, Modernity and Raet in Vanuatu
2008 · John P. Taylor · The Australian Journal of Anthropology · 52
Tourism and Traditional Culture: Land Diving in Vanuatu
2013 · Joseph M. Cheer, Keir J. Reeves, et al. · Annals of Tourism Research · 49
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Citation count: 4,106
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