Author: Schwarz, A.M.; Andrew, N.; Govan, H.; Harohau, D.; Oeta, J.Publisher: WorldFish
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Solomon Islands
Author: Schwarz, A.M.; Andrew, N.; Govan, H.; Harohau, D.; Oeta, J.Publisher: WorldFish
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Foods and diets of communities involved in inland aquaculture in Malaita Province, Solomon Islands
Author: Jones, C.[Author]; Schwarz, A.M.[Author]; Sulu, R.[Author]; Tikai, P.[Author]Publisher: WorldFish
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Solomon Islands has a population of just over half a million people, most of whom are rural-based subsistence farmers and fishers who rely heavily on fish as their main animal-source food and for income. The nation is one of the Pacific Island Counties and Territories; future shortfalls in fish production are projected to be serious, and government policy identifies inland aquaculture development as one of the options to meet future demand for fish. In Solomon Islands, inland aquaculture has also been identified as a way to improve ood and nutrition security for people with poor access to marine fish. This report undertaken by a Worldfish study under the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems explores the e potential role of land-based aquaculture of Mozambique tilapia in Solomon Islands as it relates to household food and nutrition security. This nutrition survey aimed to benchmark the foods and diets of households newly involved in small homestead tilapia ponds and their neighboring households in the central region of Malaita, the most populous island of all the provinces in Solomon Islands. Focus group discussions and semistructured interviews were employed in 10 communities (five inland and five coastal), four clinics, and five schools.
Making Mala
Author: Clive MoorePublisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760460982
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
Malaita is one of the major islands in the Solomons Archipelago and has the largest population in the Solomon Islands nation. Its people have an undeserved reputation for conservatism and aggression. Making Mala argues that in essence Malaitans are no different from other Solomon Islanders, and that their dominance, both in numbers and their place in the modern nation, can be explained through their recent history. A grounding theme of the book is its argument that, far than being conservative, Malaitan religions and cultures have always been adaptable and have proved remarkably flexible in accommodating change. This has been the secret of Malaitan success. Malaitans rocked the foundations of the British protectorate during the protonationalist Maasina Rule movement in the 1940s and the early 1950s, have heavily engaged in internal migration, particularly to urban areas, and were central to the ‘Tension Years’ between 1998 and 2003. Making Mala reassesses Malaita’s history, demolishes undeserved tropes and uses historical and cultural analyses to explain Malaitans’ place in the Solomon Islands nation today.
Malaita Province Development Profile
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Malaita Province (Solomon Islands)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Solomon Island Folktales from Malaita
Author: Body Ornaments of Malaita, Solomon Islands
Author: Ben BurtPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
This book reviews the significance of body ornaments in Kwara'ae society and the history of their disappearance under the social transformation of colonial rule and Christian conversion. It describes the materials, techniques and relationships by which ornaments were produced and exchanged and contains detailed drawings of the enormous variety of ornaments worn throughout Malaita.
Report
Author: United States. Hydrographic OfficePublisher:
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Category : Hydrography
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The Megalithic Culture of Melanesia
Author: Alphonse RiesenfeldPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category : Megalithic monuments
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy
Author: United States. Navy DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Colonialism, Maasina Rule, and the Origins of Malaitan Kastom
Author: David W. AkinPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824838149
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
This book is a political history of the island of Malaita in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1927, when the last violent resistance to colonial rule was crushed, to 1953 and the inauguration of the island’s first representative political body, the Malaita Council. At the book’s heart is a political movement known as Maasina Rule, which dominated political affairs in the southeastern Solomons for many years after World War II. The movement’s ideology, kastom, was grounded in the determination that only Malaitans themselves could properly chart their future through application of Malaitan sensibilities and methods, free from British interference. Kastom promoted a radical transformation of Malaitan lives by sweeping social engineering projects and alternative governing and legal structures. When the government tried to suppress Maasina Rule through force, its followers brought colonial administration on the island to a halt for several years through a labor strike and massive civil resistance actions that overflowed government prison camps. David Akin draws on extensive archival and field research to present a practice-based analysis of colonial officers’ interactions with Malaitans in the years leading up to and during Maasina Rule. A primary focus is the place of knowledge in the colonial administration. Many scholars have explored how various regimes deployed “colonial knowledge” of subject populations in Asia and Africa to reorder and rule them. The British imported to the Solomons models for “native administration” based on such an approach, particularly schemes of indirect rule developed in Africa. The concept of “custom” was basic to these schemes and to European understandings of Melanesians, and it was made the lynchpin of government policies that granted limited political roles to local ideas and practices. Officers knew very little about Malaitan cultures, however, and Malaitans seized the opportunity to transform custom into kastom, as the foundation for a new society. The book’s overarching topic is the dangerous road that colonial ignorance paved for policy makers, from young cadets in the field to high officials in distant Fiji and London. Today kastom remains a powerful concept on Malaita, but continued confusion regarding its origins, history, and meanings hampers understandings of contemporary Malaitan politics and of Malaitan people’s ongoing, problematic relations with the state.