Directory of Melanesians Resources

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• "A Selection of Fundamentals": The Intellectual Background of the Melanesian Mission of the Church of England, 1850-1914

  http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/sohmer1988/
  Full text of a 1988 Ph.D. dissertation by Sara Harrison Sohmer.

• Aesthetic Realism and Anthropology: Papua New Guinea

  http://www.perey-anthropology.net/Oksapmin-A.htm
  A Ph.D. dissertation by Arnold Perey on the Oksapmin of West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.

• At Home in Vanuatu

  http://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/vanuatu/
  A photo-exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences showing cultural aspects of Vanuatu.

• Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia

  http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/depopulation1922/
  Full text of a 1922 book, edited by W. H. R. Rivers.

• History and Tradition in Melanesian Anthropology

  http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft509nb347/
  Full text of the 1992 book edited by James G. Carrier.

• Lecture on the Melanesian Mission

  http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/codrington_lecture1863.pdf
  Full text of an 1863 lecture by R. H. Codrington on the status of the Anglican Mission in Melanesia.

• Maring Hunters and Traders: Production and Exchange in the Papua New Guinea Highlands

  http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft2k4004h3/
  Full text of the book by Christopher Healey.

• Melanesia To-day: A Study Circle Book

  http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/hopkins_today1927/
  Full text of a 1927 book compiled by Arthur Innes Hopkins.

• MelanesiaGenWeb Project

  http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~melwgw/
  Genealogy and History from the Islands of Melanesia.

• Pioneers of Island Melanesia

  http://www.eastpapuan.ling.su.se/
  Investigates the prehistory of Island Melanesia, from the time of first settlement some 40,000 years ago until the arrival of speakers of Austronesian languages less than 4,000 years ago.

• Religion and Customs in Melanesia

  http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/sx_booklet2.html
  Full text of a 1949 booklet.

• The Finished Course, Being Recollections of Bishop Patteson on the Anniversary of His Death (1873)

  http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/brooke_finished1873.html
  Full text of the 1873 publication, "The Finished Course, Being Recollections of Bishop Patteson on the Anniversary of His Death".

• The Heart of the Pearl Shell: The Mythological Dimension of Foi Sociality

  http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft7w10087d/
  Full text of the 1988 book by James F. Weiner.

• The Legacy of Robert Henry Codrington

  http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/davidson_codrington.pdf
  An article by Allan K. Davidson on Codrington's impact on Melanesia.

• Wage, Trade, and Exchange in Melanesia: A Manus Society in the Modern State

  http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft6b69p0gx/
  Full text of the 1989 book by James G. Carrier and Achsah H. Carrier.

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