Vanuatu: Politics, Economics, and Ritual in Island Melanesia
Vanuatu's politics reflect cultural diversity, colonial history and personal differences. Chapters cover history, the 1991 election, politicians, electoral constituencies and political issues
This volume aims to test the application of one particular theoretical framework to the Melanesian version of this phenomenon, which is the framework put forward by Derek Hall, Philip Hirsch and Tania Murray Li in their 2011 book, Powers of ...
Politics and Government in Vanuatu: From Colonial Unity to Post-colonial Disunity
Land Tenure in Vanuatu
Van Trease, The politics of land in Vanuatu, p. ... Nouvelles- Hébrides (Vanuatu), Centre Culturel du Vanuatu, Port Vila, 2008; M Tabani, Les pouvoirs de la coutume: traditionalisme et édification nationale, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2002, ...
Land Tenure in the Pacific
Addressing the implications of the lack of established party systems across the Pacific, this collection seeks to illuminate the underlying assumptions and suppositions behind the importance of coherent and effective parties to overall ...
... Land Alienation', in P Lamour (ed.), Land Tenure in Vanuatu, University of the South Pacific, Suva. Van Trease, H 1987, The Politics of Land in Vanuatu: From Colony to Independence, University of the South Pacific, Suva. Ward, A 1994 ...
British planters and administrators in Malaita, one of the epicentres of the Fijian and Queensland labour trades, complained that these returned ... 43–52; Akin, Colonialism, Maasina Rule and the Origins of Malaitan Kastom, pp. 30–1.