Indonesia is an “imagined community”, Melanesia is a REAL community!… BUT…
A Melanesian Dilemma It is a human tragedy today is that “the REAL Melanesian community think they are unreal, and then they believe and treat the “unreal Indonesian community” as a real one, They think un-real Indonesia poses real threats and danger, that therefore it is a sensitive issue that should be treated cautiously. They […]
Cosmology: Oceanic
Cosmologies Encyclopedia of Religion Since over a quarter of the world’s discrete religions are found in Oceania or on the islands of the Pacific Ocean, generalizations about their worldviews do not come easily. Because the languages of Polynesia, and virtually all Micronesia, belong to the Austronesian (formerly Malayo-Polynesian) phylum, it is easier to detect a certain […]
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