Moro and the Weather Coast : a revitalization movement in the Solomon Islands / Gülbün Çoker O'Connor.

"A political movement known to its own adherents as "Moro Movement," "Moro Company," or "Kastom Company" started on the southern coast of Guadalcanal, the largest island in the Solomon Islands of the southwest Pacific, around 1957. It came on the heels of another movement known in the anthropologica...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Carolina Academic Press ritual studies monographs.
Main Author: Çoker, Gülbün (Author)
Language:English
Published: Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2022]
Series:Carolina Academic Press ritual studies monographs.
Subjects:
Nativistic movements > Solomon Islands > Guadalcanal > History.
Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands) > History.
Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands) > Social life and customs.
Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands) > Politics and government.
Manners and customs.
Nativistic movements.
Politics and government.
Solomon Islands > Guadalcanal.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xxi, 230 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The setting
  • Descent groups : clans and lineages
  • Subsistence
  • Economic activities
  • Beliefs and ritual
  • Historical background
  • Moro Movement
  • Organization and projects
  • External relations of the company
  • Moro's leadership.