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(Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu) In Melanesia, the assertion of traditional values and cultural practices in a modern context. quotations examples
At the same time many of these politicians established an intellectual rapprochement between kastom and Christianity.
2000, David L. Hanlon, Geoffrey Miles White, Voyaging Through the Contemporary Pacific, page 392
The disturbance of kastom is what Moore sees as the root cause of the outbreak of violence during the crisis.
2008, Sinclair Dinnen, Stewart Firth, Politics and State Building in Solomon Islands, page 200