Burial Practices and Funerals

Cosmology

Eschatology

Mats and Basketry

Boats

Material Not Relevant

Acculturation and Culture Contact

Speech

Territorial Hierarchy

Form and Rules of Government

External Relations

Missions

Bibliographies in Sources

Glossary

Real Property

Inheritance

Administration

Rules of Descent

Organization and Analysis of Results

Ingroup Antagonisms

Sex and Marital Offenses

Property Offenses

5311

Visual Arts

Organized Ceremonial

Comparative Evidence

Kinship Terminology

Sanctions

Trial Procedure

Warfare

Topography and Geology

Bone, Horn, and Shell Technology

Dwellings

Public Structures

Settlement Patterns

Sleeping

Residence

Household

Population

Composition of Population

Identification

Spirits and Gods

Religious Denominations

Reviews and Critiques

Incorporeal Property

Community Structure

General Character of Religion

Ethnogeography

Vegetable Production

Musical Instruments

Dance

Age Stratification

Mourning

Location

Climate

Soil

Mineral Resources

Flora

Regulation of Marriage

Mode of Marriage

Arranging a Marriage

Termination of Marriage

Polygamy

Fishing

Division of Labor by Gender

Menstruation

Clans

Social Control

Aggression Training

Elementary Education

Linguistic Identification

Tillage

Preservation and Storage of Food

Diet

Production and Supply

External Trade

Retail Marketing

Status, Role, and Prestige

Informal in-Group Justice

Judicial Authority

Buying and Selling

Internal Trade

Revelation and Divination

Magicians and Diviners

CULTURE SUMMARY: MALEKULA

ETHNONYMS

ORIENTATION

HISTORY AND CULTURAL RELATIONS

SETTLEMENTS

ECONOMY

KINSHIP

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION

RELIGION AND EXPRESSIVE CULTURE

SYNOPSIS

INDEXING NOTES

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

RELIGIOUS PRACTITIONERS

CEREMONIES

ARTS

DEATH AND AFTERLIFE

IDENTIFICATION AND LOCATION

DEMOGRAPHY

LINGUISTIC AFFILIATION

SUBSISTENCE AND COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

TRADE

DIVISION OF LABOR

LAND TENURE

KIN GROUPS AND DESCENT

KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY

MARRIAGE

DOMESTIC UNIT

INHERITANCE

SOCIALIZATION

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION

SOCIAL CONTROL

CONFLICT

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Malekula Island in Vanuatu is the home of several culturally similar ethnic groups, including the Laus (or Small Nambas), Mewun, and Seniang. The languages, all Austronesian languages of the Malekula Coastal Sub-Group, are mutually unintelligible but some people are multilingual. Swidden horticulture provides the staple foods. Cash crops include copra, cocoa, and a small coffee crop. There is little else in terms of commercial activity.

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