81. Vanuatu (12/04) vanuatu retains strong economic and cultural ties to Australia, New Zealand, theUnited Kingdom, and France. Australia has provided the bulk of vanuatu s http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2815.htm

Bureau of Public Affairs Electronic Information and Publications Office Background Notes Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs December 2004 Background Note: Vanuatu PROFILE OFFICIAL NAME: Republic of Vanuatu Geography Area: Land 12,200 sq. km. (4,707 sq. mi.), includes more than 80 Islands. Comparative areaabout the size of Connecticut. Cities: Capital Port Vila (on the island of Efate), pop. 30,000. Other towns Luganville (on the island of Espiritu Santo, also known as Santo). Terrain: Mostly mountains of volcanic origin, narrow coastal plains. Climate: Tropical. People Nationality: Noun and adjective ni-Vanuatu. Population (2003 est.): 208,000. Annual growth rate (2003 est.): 2.7%. Ethnic groups: 94% ni-Vanuatu; 4% European; 2% other Pacific Islanders, Asian. Religion: Predominantly Christian. Languages: Bislama (Pidgin), English, French, over 100 tribal languages. Education: Enrollment in primary is 100% with rapid fall-off to 20% in secondary and upper secondary. Adult literacy rate (2004)53% of those age 15 and older. Health: Infant mortality rate Life expectancy (2004) 62.1 yrs.

82. Description And Creativity Panel 3 She is an advisor to the vanuatu Cultural Centre, working with nivanuatu womenconcerned to record, and to sustain, women s knowledge and practice through http://www.nomadit.co.uk/~dnc/panels/panel3.htm

Description and Creativity conference Approaches to collaboration and value from anthropology, art, science and technology A conference at King's College, Cambridge 3rd - 5th July 2005 Opening Panel 1 Panel 2 Panel 3 ... Closing Panel 3: Ethnographic description and repatriation: usability and creativity Tuesday 5th July, 9am – 12.30pm Convenor: Lissant Bolton What are the uses of anthropological or social science descriptions as understood by the subjects of ethnographic research? In what ways can these kinds of descriptions fit into people’s own projects, be made useful or useable? Should social scientists have this engaged focus? What other forms can description take, and how do they intersect with anthropological description. Can ethnographic writing be theorised as engagement. Introductory comments (9am) Lissant Bolton (9.10am) Forms of knowledge: repatriating/constituting ethnographic description in Vanuatu, South Pacific Abstract: Bio: Lissant Bolton is Curator of the Pacific and Australian collections at the British Museum. She has worked in Vanuatu, South Pacific since 1989, and is the author of 'Unfolding the Moon: Extending Kastom to Women in Vanuatu' (University of Hawaii Press, 2003). She has also published both on the anthropology of Vanuatu and on issues relating to museums and indigenous people. She is an advisor to the Vanuatu Cultural Centre, working with ni-Vanuatu women concerned to record, and to sustain, women's knowledge and practice through the country.

83. Vanuatu Events And Shows vanuatu Events and Shows. Port Vila Presse Online vanuatu News vanuatuCultural Cen and contemporary music shows, screenings of films about http://www.ezilon.com/world/countries/vanuatu/vanuatu_events_and_shows/index.sht

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84. Directory Of Internet Sites Related To Vanuatu vanuatu Cultural Centre Kaljoral Senta blong vanuatu Republic of vanuatu basedin Port Vila http//www.vanuatuculture.org. Information about vanuatu s flags http://www.vanuatugovernment.gov.vu/directory.html

Click on button to Navigate Site Government Offices Government Information News Government Contact Information Public Holidays Vanuatu in Cyberspace Internet Development Group Renewable Energy Vanuatu Web Sites Vanuatu Legislation Home Page Directory of Internet Sites Related to Vanuatu Contacts and Telecommunications News General Information Living in Vanuatu ... Tourism and Holiday Contacts and Telecommunications Telecom Vanuatu Limited - Information on telephone and Internet services http://www.vanuatu.com.vu/English/index.htm The Vanuatu telephone directory http://www.vatu.com Back to the top menu News Vanuatu Online - Includes an online edition of the Vanuatu Weekly Hebdomadaire, the Government owned national newspaper. http://www.vol.com.vu/ www.vbtc.com.vu/ Port Vila Presse Online - the leading Vanuatu news portal with complete news and information from Vanuatu in English, French and Bislama. www.news.vu

85. Vanuatu's Biodiversity - Clearing House Mechanism | Cultural Research Read the vanuatu CULTURAL RESEARCH POLICY by vanuatu Cultural Centre vanuatu Cultural Council Act of 1988 Laws of the Republic of vanuatu, Chapter 186. http://www.biodiversity.com.vu/cultural_res.htm

Home Feedback Site Map EnvironmentUnit Home CITES Information Services Contact us Biodiversity Vanuatus biodiversity Important species Conservation Projects NBSAP VATHE PICCAP IW Research Code of ethics Application form Information for cultural research Environment Managment Agriculture Fisheries Forestry Land Use Planning ... Quarantine We use these plug-ins on this web site. Click to download. INFORMATION FOR CULTURAL RESEARCH Read the VANUATU CULTURAL RESEARCH POLICY by Vanuatu Cultural Centre [VCC] - Hosted by ANU The VCC is an organisation that works to record and promote the diverse cultures of the Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu. The VCC runs an extensive network of volunteer workers around the country who record information and participate in projects run by the Centre. Your queries or questions should be directed to Vanuatu Cultural Centre, P.O. Box 184, Port Vila, Vanuatu.

86. CulturePeace And Respect: UNESCO Bosen is a cultural fieldworker, one of 60 men and 40 women volunteers in aprogramme started by the vanuatu Cultural Centre in the late 1970’s to document, http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=21206&URL_DO=DO_PRINTPAGE&URL_SECTION=

Culture Peace and Respect Vanuatu (in Melanesia) is probably the most culturally diverse country anywhere. A unique network of fieldworkers is helping keep traditional customs alive and well. Bosen Napu leads us in single file through the rainforest, and down the steep, winding path of a canyon, leaving the coast far behind us. It is best to walk barefoot, he says, for a better grip on the black, volcanic earth. When we finally get to the bottom, we immediately start the nearvertical climb up the other side, until we reach a wide clearing shaded by giant banyan trees. Men and boys are sitting around, wearing only their tradiional nambas or penis sheaths. This is a nakamal, a sacred meeting and dancing space where ancient paths cross, up in the cool mountains of Tanna, in the south of Vanuatu. kastom kastom was the rallying call that united the 13 main islands and 70 islets in this Melanesian archipelago, with their 100 or so languages and almost as many cultural variations. Keeping Kastom But, as Bosen explains, kastom is much more than the flamboyant ceremonies, which can involve hundreds of people and years of preparation. "In the end, it comes down to peace and respect," he says. And traditional practices are, in one way or another, a means to preserve harmony, whether between generations, families, or simply to maintain human life in balance with the rest of nature.

87. Enlaces Vanuatu. Información Sobre Vanuatu vanuatu Cultural Centre (VCC) Port Vila-based organisation that works to recordand promote the diverse cultures of the Pacific archipelago of vanuatu. http://destinia.com/guide/odp/Vanuatu/30233/es

Enlaces Vanuatu. Guia de turismo de Vanuatu, información sobre Vanuatu get_Html ('cabecera'); reservas inicio hoteles viajes vuelos ... guía de viajes toda la información sobre tu destino preferido: europa asia norteamérica sudamérica ... africa estás en la... Guia de viajes Vanuatu Información sobre Vanuatu Navegar por Vanuatu ... Hoteles de lujo Información general Clima Cocina Datos generales Enlaces ... Sociedad Boletín informativo Recibe en tu correo nuestras últimas ofertas y promociones. Suscríbete!!! Search: Vanuatu Open Directory Categories (1-5 of 6) Regional: Oceania: Vanuatu matches) Sports: Soccer: OFC: Vanuatu Reference: Flags: Regional: Vanuatu World: Español: Países: Oceanía: Vanuatu World: Italiano: Regionale: Oceania: Vanuatu ... more... Open Directory Sites (1-20 of 197) Topix.net: Vanuatu News from Vanuatu gathered from various sources on the web. http://rss.topix.net/rss/world/ vanuatu .xml Regional: Oceania: Vanuatu Port Vila Presse Online Vanuatu : Football Includes news, scores, and headlines. http://www.news.vu/en/sports/football/

88. AV Archives Management In The Pacific The vanuatu Cultural Centre (VCC) first made contact with the NFSA through Mr.Jacob Kapere who is the Head of the centre’s Film and Sound Unit. http://www.geocities.com/seapavaa/whatsnew/arcmgmt.htm

AV Archives Management in the Pacific Mark Nizette Senior Manager, Access National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Preamble A number of years ago, the formation of SEAPAVAA flagged the need for AV management training in both Asia and the Pacific. Over the past few years, various Asian countries have benefited from the activities of the association while it has concentrated on building its membership and strengthening its position in the AV community. In response to requests for assistance from a number of cultural institutions in the Pacific to develop their audio visual preservation and access, the NFSA has secured funds to conduct a "needs analysis" throughout the region to determine the optimum way in which we can assist. Rather than respond to each individual request, it makes sense to plan a strategy that takes into account the collective needs of the region, whilst at the same time has the fineness of resolution to address the needs of each collection. Although there are more than a dozen countries and scores of collections within the Pacific, four countries were chosen for the needs analysis based upon the size of the collections, previous contact, and the degree to which their collections represented the needs and resources of the region. Due to the logistics of transport, the analysis was conducted in two parts, Papua New Guinea was visited in October, followed in November by visits to Vanuatu, Fiji and Samoa. What follows is a brief summary of some of the major collections from these countries, reflecting common problems of storage, treatment, training and management throughout the region.

89. Vanuatu Accommodation & Travel Information, Jasons Travel Channel The country s diverse cultures can be viewed at the vanuatu Cultural Centre andMuseum in Port Vila. Tanna Island, famous for its traditional villages, http://www.jasons.com/000579,VAN,,,,pg,1,0.mel

Browse Accommodation Transport Travellers Services Visitor Info Centres ... Tanna Jasons Resources Home Free Travel Guides Airlines Advertising Options ... Investor Relations Queries Suggestions and feedback Contact us Privacy Statement Link to Us Vanuatu Vanuatu is the friendly face of the Pacific - a place where visitors will receive a warm welcome and can enjoy a relaxed holiday in beautiful tropical surroundings. The 83 islands that make up Vanuatu, previously known as the New Hebrides, present a diversity of scenic attractions from mountainous volcanic landscapes to gentle white sand beaches and the magnificent deepwater harbour at Port Vila. Each of the inhabited islands has it's own culture and language with traditional customs playing an important part in everyday life. The islands reflect the influence of the French and English colonists - for much of the 20th century the British Queen and French President were joint heads of state of the New Hebrides. The author James A Michener was inspired to write "Tales of the South Pacific" after visiting the islands. The group's capital Port Vila is located on the island of Efate, along with the international airport. Many of Vanuatu's islands are serviced by the domestic airline so visitors have a wide range of destinations to choose from, each offering something different in terms of scenery and culture. Population: Capital City: Port Vila on the island of Efate Area: 2000km north of Auckland, New Zealand; 2500km north-east of Sydney, Australia; and 800km west of Nadi, Fiji. The 83 islands of Vanuatu cover a total land area of about 13,000sq km

90. Malekula, Vanuatu, South Pacific Islands are among the finest in vanuatu and offer a unique insight into Nivanuatuculture. Villagers enjoy sharing their cultural heritage with visitors. http://www.jasons.com/001682,,,,,PG,1,0.mel

Browse Accommodation Transport Travellers Services Visitor Info Centres ... Tuvalu Jasons Resources Home Free Travel Guides Airlines Advertising Options ... Investor Relations Queries Suggestions and feedback Contact us Privacy Statement Link to Us Malekula Malekula’s rugged interior is clad in lush rainforest, and most of the inhabitants live in villages on the coast. It is Vanuatu’s second largest island and the most culturally diverse. There are over 30 distinct languages spoken, although only about 20,000 people live on the island. Malakula art and ritual objects are among the finest in Vanuatu and offer a unique insight into Ni-Vanuatu culture. The island is famous, in particular, for the complex ceremonies and rituals preserved by two of its remarkable tribes – the Big Nambas and Small Nambas. There is island-style bungalow accommodation available, and flights operate daily from Port Vila and Santo. Attractions: Village Visits Villagers enjoy sharing their cultural heritage with visitors. You can watch a custom dance, and visit a nakamal (clubhouse) and village garden. Tours provide a unique opportunity to learn about traditional Melanesian ways, including how the various ritual ceremonies are organised. Bushwalks Trails lead inland through the forest to remote waterfalls, and you may also see a natsaro – an ancient dance ground with standing stones and ceremonial cairns.

91. Vanuatu Cultural Research Policy The vanuatu National Cultural Council is responsible for research in vanuatu The vanuatu Cultural and Historic Sites Survey is to be consulted about the http://www.ulb.ac.be/soco/apft/GENERAL/PUBLICAT/vanuatu.htm

Vanuatu Cultural Research Policy retour vers projets 1) Definitions 2) Guiding principles 3) Policy statements 1. Definitions 'Kastom': traditional political, social, religious and economic structures, and their associated practices, systems of knowledge and material items. 'Local community': the group(s) of people that are the subject of the research effort and/or live in the area in which research is being undertaken. 'Ni-Vanuatu': a citizen of the Republic of Vanuatu as defined by the Constitution. 'Products of research': publications (including reports, theses, books, manuscripts, academic articles, sound recordings, film and video, computer databases), field notes, illustrations, photographs, film and video, sound recordings, collected material artefacts, specimens. 'Cultural research': any endeavour, by means of critical investigation and study of a subject, to discover new or collate old facts or hypotheses on cultural subject; the latter being defined as any ethnographic or anthropological study, including basic data collection, studies of or incorporating traditional knowledge or classification systems (eg. studies of the medicinal properties of plants, land and marine tenure systems), documentary films, archaeology, linguistics and ethno-historical accounts. This excludes any research undertaken by ni-Vanuatu, by Government officers in the execution of their duty or at the request of the Government of the Republic of Vanuatu. 'Tabu': a subject to which access is restricted to any degree. Such subjects can include places, names, knowledge, oral traditions, objects and practices.

92. European Council Of Artists - Conseil Européen Des Artistes head of the vanuatu Cultural Centre in Port Vila, the principal town in the Regenvanu as Executive Director of the vanuatu Cultural Center and Neil http://www.eca.dk/debate/gary.neill.htm

Port Vila to Cape Town and Beyond Developing a New Convention on Cultural Diversity by Gary Neill, coordinator INCD Notes for an Address to Cultural Diversity Conference, arranged by Danish Center for Culture and Development in Copenhagen, 29 November 2002 Different Perspectives on Culture and Trade The International Network for Cultural Diversity Why is it that an analysis written from the perspective of a western industrialized nation, with developed cultural industries, appeals as well to a cultural activist from Vanuatu? What are we working to achieve, Regenvanu as Executive Director of the Vanuatu Cultural Center and Neil as a consultant for various cultural producers and unions? What would we like to see instead of the cultural homogenization that is sweeping over the whole world? What we both want of course is flourishing local cultures, more balanced exchanges between cultures, preservation of threatened languages as reservoirs of knowledge and traditions. We want to increase the available choices for the consumers of arts and cultural products in all countries, we want them to be able to consume the creations of our artists and our cultural workers as well as those of dominant cultures. And Regenvanu and Neil also share an understanding that market forces alone will not bring this flourishing of cultures. - the importance to all societies of expression through arts and culture;

93. Project MUSE The vanuatu Cultural Centre, with its emphasis on kastom and local practices,has also provided a fulcrum for nation building. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/contemporary_pacific/v016/16.1mitchell.html

How Do I Get This Article? Athens Login Access Restricted This article is available through Project MUSE, an electronic journals collection made available to subscribing libraries NOTE: Please do NOT contact Project MUSE for a login and password. See How Do I Get This Article? for more information. Login: Password: Your browser must have cookies turned on Mitchell, Jean "Unfolding the Moon: Enacting Women's Kastom in Vanuatu (review)" The Contemporary Pacific - Volume 16, Number 1, Spring 2004, pp. 193-195 University of Hawai'i Press Excerpt Unfolding the Moon, the title of this book, is taken from a textile design and suggests the poetic resonance of women's agency as it is expressed through kastom practices embedded in the fabrication and exchange of textiles. In this book, women's textiles provide a route to understanding the gendered production of knowledge and women's kastom practices. This beautifully written book has much to say about the relationships between material objects and cultural practices; the articulation of gender and kastom practices; and the inclusionary [End Page 193] and exclusionary practices of kastom and nation building in postcolonial Vanuatu.

94. Yacht Charters Vanuatu - MV Surprise vanuatu Cultural Itinerary. There are many options. Starting at Santo goingnorth and finishing at Santo or starting Vila and finishing Santo. http://www.surpriseshipping.com/vanuatu.html

Vanuatu Yacht Charter - Cultural Itinerary Note: All itineraries are customised according to your requirements. This is an example itinerary. There are many options. Starting at Santo going north and finishing at Santo or starting Vila and finishing Santo. Or Starting at Vila , Tanna, north as far as Santo. Guests can fly into Santo, Tanna, from Vila . The islands are a real cultural experience and are very remote. The people are very polite and friendly and the traditional dances that they perform are quite primitive. Anchorages are sometimes rolly. Overnights can be cut down if a smaller section of the group is explored in more detail. Some of the passages between islands can be a little rough if the trade winds are blowing hard. If guests have done open water cruising then it's a fascinating area to explore. Day I Meet Party at the airport Santo/Vila Depart for Surprise 20 mins.

95. Vanuatu Cultural Centre :: National Film And Sound Unit By vanuatu Cultural Centre Posted Friday, June 17, 2005. The purpose of havingsuch a collection is to benefit the future generation and those that do not http://www.vanuatu.net.vu/cgi-bin/moxiebin/bm_tools.cgi?print=7;s=4;site=15

96. British High Commission, Port Vila Links vanuatu Cultural Centre http//arts.anu.edu.au/arcworld/vks/vks.htm Home pageof the vanuatu Cultural Centre, a governmentfunded organisation that works http://www.britishhighcommission.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xceler

97. Cultural Heritage Center For Asia And The Pacific Mr Martha Kaltal, Coordinator, vanuatu Cultural and Historical Site Survey,vanuatu Kaljoral Senta, vanuatu. Ms Elizabeth Niumataiwalu, National Trust of http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts/chcap/research_consultancy/pacific_research.php

Skip to content Deakin home Contact us Directory of staff ... Portal Search: Cultural Heritage Center for Asia and the Pacific Home Studying at CHCAP Publications Museum Studies ... ICG Printer friendly view Capacity Building in Cultural Heritage Management in the Pacific Island Nations A Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific and UNESCO Division of Cultural Heritage Project. Beach Street, Levuka, Fiji Islands - Huvalu Forest Conservation Zone, Niue In 2004 the Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific, Deakin University, will coordinate a training project for heritage managers from Pacific Island nations in association with: The project is funded by UNESCO Division of Cultural Heritage from the Japan Funds in Trust. Project Objectives The overall objectives of the project are: Material recorded at the workshops will be used produce an electronic training kit in the form of a CD-ROM for skills development in the assessment and recording of cultural values at Pacific heritage sites. More information follows on: The Workshops -introduction Levuka Workshop Levuka Workshop Photo gallery Niue Workshop Niue Workshop Photo gallery ... Links The Workshops There will be two week-long intensive training workshops for around 10 participants currently working in heritage management in the Pacific - as archaeologists, historic sites managers, conservators or senior representatives of national agencies for conservation.

98. East-West Center: News & Events: ISLANDS OF GLOBALIZATION FILM SERIES: Kilim Tae ISLANDS OF GLOBALIZATION FILM SERIES Kilim Taem a film by the vanuatu CulturalCentre 1998 52min. Where, John Burns Hall 3121/3125 NOON http://www.eastwestcenter.org/events-ce-detail.asp?conf_ID=586

99. Projekt vanuatu Cultural Centre, Port Vila, vanuatu Musée territorial de Nouvelle-Calédonie,Nouméa - Délégation aux affaires culturelles en Nouvelle-Calédonie, http://pages.unibas.ch/museum/mkb/vanuatu/engl/projekt.htm

The International Vanuatu Project Photo Speiser 1910/12 The point of departure for the exhibition project is given by the collection of Felix Speiser, a Basle ethnologist who added to the wealth of objects he collected during the years 1910 / 12 numerous photographs he took in the original locations in Vanuatu. Since 1990 an international working group with specialists from Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Australia, New Zealand, France, UK, Canada, the United States and Switzerland has prepared the most comprehensive attempt to a cultural dialogue with Melanesia so far. C. Kaufmann, curator at the Oceania department of the Museum der Kulturen in Basle and initiatior of the idea, co-ordinated the project. The results of the project are an international touring exhibition as well as an extensive publication in English and in French. The project was co-supported by the Swiss cultural foundation "Pro Helvetia". Ausstellungsplakat Nouméa 1996 Partners of the international touring exhibition: - Museum der Kulturen Basel, Kanton Basel-Stadt

100. Satellite Meetings - 65th IFLA Council And General Conference 1530 The oral traditions program of the vanuatu Cultural Centre Mrs. Martha KaltalNational Cultural and Historal Sites Survey, vanuatu Cultural Centre http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla65/65sate.htm

IN THIS DOCUMENT: Collecting and Safeguarding Oral Traditions : An International Conference Preliminary Programme and Proceedings Library Buildings in a Changing Environment Preliminary Programme ... Programme 65th IFLA Council and General Conference Bangkok, Thailand, August 20 - August 28, 1999 Satellite Meetings The details of other satellites meetings will be announced in IFLA '99 Express 1. Collecting and Safeguarding Oral Traditions : An International Conference Organized as a Satellite Meeting of the General Conference of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) August 16-19, 1999 Khon Kaen, Thailand Local organization provided by Mahasarakham University A 4-day Conference will be held on the theme of " Collecting and Safeguarding Oral Traditions " in Khon Kaen, Northeastern Thailand, from 16-19 August 1999. This Conference is open to all with an interest in the preservation of oral traditions. Within the context of the UNESCO " Memory of the World " Program, the Conference Program will deal with various aspects of collecting and safeguarding oral heritage, including the socio-cultural context; collection methodologies and selection criteria; care, handling, storage and preservation issues; and technical matters. Included in the Conference will be an excursion to the Research Institute of Northeastern Arts and Culture and the Sirindhorn Isan Information Center (Mahasarakham University, Thailand), an academic resource centre with comprehensive information related to all aspects of northeastern Thai cultures and traditions. Participants attending this Conference may wish to attend the 65th IFLA Council and General Conference in Bangkok from 20-28 August, 1999.

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