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    Niue. ETHNONYMS: Niuean, Niuefekai. Niue is a 260-square-kilometer raised coral atoll. Culturally and linguistically it is very similar to Tonga. Niue is located at 19 ° S and 169 ° 50 ′ W, 385 kilometers east of Vavau, Tonga. There were 6,000 people on Niue and about 5,500 Niueans in New Zealand in the early 1980s. Niuean is part of the Tongic group of Austronesian languages.
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    Niue Island, New Zealand and the Late Mr. Larsen. Auckland: Hodder and Stoughton. Smith, S. Percy (1902-1903). "Niue: The Island and its People." Journal of the Polynesian Society 11: 81-178, 12: 1-31. Vilitama, Hafe, and Terry Chapman et al. (1982). Niue: A History of the Island. Suva: University of South Pacific and Government of Niue. TOM RYAN
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    Oceania. Covering half the earth's surface and containing thousands of islands, the Pacific Ocean, locus of the world region called Oceania, is so vast and inhabited by such diverse peoples with widely varying histories that almost any generalizations are problematic, and this certainly is the case regarding tobacco use.. Early History. The earliest historical record of tobacco use in Oceania ...
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    TRANSCULTURATION AND RELIGION: RELIGION IN THE FORMATION OF MODERN OCEANIA In 1601, after a Spanish historian published a map showing the islands of the Carolines and the Marianas, north New Guinea, and most of the Solomon Islands, Pacific Island peoples became part of the general history of humankind. Source for information on Transculturation and Religion: Religion in the Formation of Modern ...
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    POLITICS AND RELIGION: POLITICS AND OCEANIC RELIGIONS In the late eighteenth century, at the beginning of extensive European intervention in the region, Oceanic peoples spoke more than twelve hundred languages and lived out their lives in tens of thousands of mostly highly localized political units. Religious beliefs and activities were correspondingly diverse, although one can detect very ...
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    GENDER AND RELIGION: GENDER AND OCEANIC RELIGIONS Oceania, a vast area encompassing a variety of social and religious systems, is often divided into three regions: Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia. In Polynesia, with its chiefs and ascribed ranks, a woman's position depends more on rank than on gender. The populations of Polynesia are historically related, and there are similarities in ...
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    OCEANIC RELIGIONS: NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS. Oceania comprises a "sea of islands" within 181 million square kilometers of the Pacific Ocean (approximately one third of the earth's surface). At the beginning of the third millennium, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand, and Australia had a total population of thirty million people, which is only half of one percent of the world population.
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    OCEANIC RELIGIONS: AN OVERVIEW The Pacific Islands are dispersed over the widest expanse of sea in the world. They consist of semi-continents (such as New Guinea), strings of large mountainous islands (along the curve of the Melanesian chain), and groups of larger and smaller islands further east, which are arranged as isolated atolls, or, more rarely, organized into whole archipelagoes, such ...
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    MUSIC: MUSIC AND RELIGION IN OCEANIA. The uttering of formulaic texts, the sounding of musical instruments, and the enactment of physical movements are all integral to the expression of religious beliefs throughout Oceania.The supernatural beings that were contacted varied widely in the extent of their powers and the nature of their physical embodiments, but much human activity was intended to ...
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    RITES OF PASSAGE: OCEANIC RITES Arnold van Gennep published the classic French text Rites de passage in 1908. Basing his study on ethnological reports, including some from Australia and parts of Melanesia and Polynesia, he noted how people change their social status throughout their lives. The break between these social spaces is like a pivot upon which one's life trajectory alters direction.

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