101. ESfO 3rd Conference Financial Report Ralph Regenvanu, Director, vanuatu Cultural Centre and National Cultural CouncilChallenges for Cultural Resource Management in vanuatu http://cc.joensuu.fi/esfo/conferences/conf3/conf3rep.htm

[ESFO Homepage] [Conference Main Page] Report for Donors on The Third Conference of The European Society for Oceanists (ESfO) Pacific Peoples in the Pacific Century: Society, Culture, Nature Copenhagen 13-15 December 1996 The National Museum of Denmark and The Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen CONTENTS: 1. ORGANIZATION AND FUNDING OF THE CONFERENCE 2. CONFERENCE PROGRAMME 3. REPORT ON KEYNOTE LECTURES AND PLENARY DISCUSSION 4. REPORT ON WORKING SESSIONS 5. MINUTES FROM GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING 6. PUBLICATION OF CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 7. BREAK DOWN OF EXPENSES (PRELIMINARY) 1. ORGANIZATION AND FUNDING OF THE CONFERENCE The conference was organized by the following members of the Scandinavian Association for Pacific Research (SAPR)/the Scandinavian country group of ESFO: Prof. Jonathan Friedman, University of Lund; Prof. Jukka Siikala, University of Helsinki; Mag.scient. Bente Wolff, The National Museum of Denmark and University of Copenhagen; Dr. Edvard Hviding, University of Bergen; Mag.scient. Ulla Hasager, University of Hawai'i at Manoa and University of Copenhagen; F.M. Jari Kupiainen, University of Joensuu; and Dr. Steen Bergendorff, University of Copenhagen. The inter-Scandinavian cooperation meant that the necessary financial support could be raised from four different countries. The funding agents, generously supporting the conference, were the following: The Danish Research Council for the Humanities; the Danish Council for Development Research; The Research Council of Norway, Division of Environment and Development; The Swedish Research Council for the Humanities; The Academy of Finland; The National Museum of Denmark and The Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Yde's Foundation at the National Museum of Denmark.

102. Links vanuatu CULTURAL CENTRE http//arts.anu.edu.au/arcworld/vks/vks.htm The VCC isan organisation that works to record and promote the diverse cultures of the http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/links.html

Links Pambu Home About the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau Microfilm catalogue Printed publications ... Links Internet Resources: The Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS) at the Australian National University (ANU) maintains the Pacific Studies WWW Virtual Library: http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-PacificStudies.html The University of Hawaii Library's Pacific Collection also maintains a list of internet resources: http://libweb.hawaii.edu/libdept/pacific/html/internet.html The University if Auckland Library recently received the Western Pacific Archive from the British Government. http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/about/speccoll/pr.htm Some of Pacific Manuscripts Bureau's partner organisations: Association of Commonwealth Archivists and Records Managers The Fiji Museum Melanesian Studies Resource Centre, UCSD PARADISEC Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures ... Vanuatu Cultural Centre Ausralian National University sites: ANU Archives Program and the Noel Butlin Archives Centre State Society and Governance in Melanesia Project, ANU RSPAS Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU Micrographics Partners: Association of Commonwealth Archivists and Records Managers http://www.acarm.org/

103. Kastom On Ambae, Vanuatu Since 1992 I have lived in Port Vila and worked at the vanuatu Cultural Centre, The effect of the vanuatu Cultural Centre programs on Ambae has been to http://rspas.anu.edu.au/papers/melanesia/conference_papers/1998/kastom.htm

Return to SSGM Home Return to Workshop Papers Page State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project Australian National University TODAY IS NOT THE SAME AS YESTERDAY, AND TOMORROW IT WILL BE DIFFERENT AGAIN: KASTOM ON AMBAE, VANUATU by Jean Tarisesei Co-ordinator, Women's Culture Project Vanuatu Cultural Centre I come from the island of Ambae in north Vanuatu. In this paper I am going to talk about kastom on my island, Ambae. Since 1992 I have lived in Port Vila and worked at the Vanuatu Cultural Centre, where I am the Women's Culture Project Coordinator. My work is to revive, preserve and promote women's kastom . I travel to many islands, including Ambae, in my work. Ambae is in the north of Vanuatu. It is about forty kilometres long. It is a volcanic island. People who live there grow their own food in gardens, and keep pigs, chickens and cattle. They have coconut plantations where they make copra to earn a little money. They live in villages in a number of districts. There are two main languages, one in west Ambae and the other in the rest of the island. Today people travel on and around Ambae on trucks, small boats and planes. In the north the island is very difficult to travel around because the volcano makes the land very steep. Many people from Ambae live in other parts of Vanuatu, especially Port Vila and Santo. There are many primary schools on Ambae and there are three secondary schools. Kastom today on Ambae Kastom is a term we use in Vanuatu, in our language Bislama, to mean the way of life in which we grew up and still practice. This is the way of life which comes from our own place. So the kastom of Ambae is the things that we do that come from Ambae. This is a hard thing to explain in any language, but especially in English. People today are trying to find ways to fit kastom together with the new things that have come into our lives. So the kastom that we now practice on Ambae is not the same as it was before. Now people are changing it and adding new things. One of the most important influences on kastom has been the churches.

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