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Roger M. Keesing

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BIOGRAPHY

Professor of Anthropology, McGill University, Montreal, 1990–93. Professor of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, 1974–90. Author of Melanesian Pidgin and The Oceanic Substrate and others.

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Map of the Pacific Ocean region showing three major culture areas highlighted in different colors: Micronesia in purple, Melanesia in green, and Polynesia in yellow. The map includes labeled islands and island groups such as Hawaii, Fiji, Samoa, New Zealand, Guam, and the Marshall Islands, with the culture area boundaries spanning across the central and southern Pacific.

Melanesian culture

Melanesian culture, the beliefs and practices of the indigenous peoples of the ethnogeographic group of Pacific Islands known as Melanesia. From northwest to southeast, the islands form an arc that begins with New Guinea (the western half of which is called Papua and is part of Indonesia, and the…

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