- Look up
kastom in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Kastom is a
pidgin word (Bislama/Tok Pisin) used to
refer to
traditional culture,
including religion...
- (Bislama) term
kastom.
Kastom was
expressed through religion, clothing,
native arts,
indigenous culture and languages. The
development of
kastom was a symbol...
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order to save
women from what the
missionaries saw as a “degraded
state in
kastom." In
doing so, the
missionaries inadvertently thrust Ni-Vanuatu
women into...
- 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...
- of Wawa (Marie Wawa) and Dain (Mungau Dain),
members of the
Indigenous Kastom tribe, who defy
their community’s
tradition of
arranged marriage by pursuing...
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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...
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Wayback Machine. Forsyth, Miranda. "Beyond Case Law:
Kastom and
Courts in Vanuatu" (PDF).
Kastom and
Courts in Vanuatu: 431.
Article 52
states that Parliament...
- 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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local kastom (custom)
villages whose people aspire to
retain a
traditional lifestyle with
minimal Western influences.
Unlike some
other kastom villages...
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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...