- Look up
kastom in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Kastom is a
pidgin word (Bislama/Tok Pisin) used to
refer to
traditional culture,
including religion...
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support of
local kastom decreased due to missionaries’
habitual suppression of the
incorporated local values, practices, and traditions.
Kastom is an all-encomp****ing...
- (Bislama) term
kastom.
Kastom was
expressed through religion, clothing,
native arts,
indigenous culture and languages. The
development of
kastom was a symbol...
- The
Prince Philip movement is a
religious sect
followed by the
Kastom people around the
villages of
Yaohnanen and
Yakel on the
southern island of Tanna...
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Christianity and work on
copra plantations, and they had to
return to
traditional kastom (the
Bislama language word for customs). In 1941,
followers of John Frum...
- the
island of Tanna,
people following the
Kastom have
always enforced arranged marriages. The
people of
Kastom Road face
sporadic conflicts with the Imedin...
- the
country of Vanuatu.
Traditional music (known in
Bislama as
kastom singsing or
kastom tanis) is
still thriving in the
rural areas of Vanuatu. Musical...
-
Marcellin (ed.), "Chapter 1. What's the
Matter with
Cargo Cults Today?", Kago,
Kastom and Kalja: The
Study of
Indigenous Movements in
Melanesia Today, Cahiers...
- told the
people to
return to
their traditional way of life, or
kastom. From that time
kastom on
Tanna has been seen as an
alternative to the
modernity encouraged...
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practising their traditional customs, and
cultural identity referred to as
Ailan Kastom. The
Islanders refer to this
event as "The
Coming of the Light", also known...
