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506:. Predictably, the high demand for crab resulted in a gradual but incremental decline in the Birgus population across North Vanuatu, and led to a visible depletion of this creature's numbers in the Torres group. Consequently, various concerned individuals and groups successfully pressured the local provincial government of SanMa (the province in which Luganville is located) to declare a temporary ban on the sale, purchase or consumption of crab in that province. This ban first took effect in the first semestre of 2004 and is intended to be lifted sometime in early 2008. In the meantime, exports of crab from the Banks and Torres Islands (i.e. 417:, which pressed the Torres inhabitants to concentrate in coastal settlements more accessible and controllable by missionaries. Around this time, a Torres islander, known today by his Christianised name of Adams Tuwia, was transferred to the Mission's headquarters on Norfolk Island, where he eventually became ordained a priest. However, the first Melanesian ever to be ordained as a Christian priest was George Sarawia, from the neighbouring Banks Islands. Because the Anglicans had set up their regional centre of operations in the 630:; hence, the use of headdresses is considered to be an extremely delicate operation, during which the possibility of spiritual pollution has to be closely monitored and controlled. It is partly for this reason that the headdresses are always destroyed immediately at the end of the ceremony. Notwithstanding the continuity of certain core customary practices, many important and profound changes have transformed the lives and worldviews of these people as a result of more than a century of contacts and interpenetration by the 458:), at some time in the early 1930s the total population of the Torres group numbered no more than 56 persons. Hence, the subsequent recovery of the indigenous population of these islands, along with the continuity of linguistic and cultural values that they still exhibit, can be described as nothing less than remarkable. Despite the fact that they belonged to a broader regional complex of human and material exchanges that extended well into present-day 989: 70: 446:
judged to be too abhorrent for the sensitivity of the Mission's leadership. More importantly, during this time - between the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth - the population of the Torres Islands suffered catastrophic decline as a combined result of the various epidemic diseases that were introduced by Europeans and the accelerated out-migration provoked by
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church, colonial administrators and traders, and, most recently, the postcolonial influence of the nation-state and the international world market - whose greatest direct manifestation is in the form of cash, independent travellers, sailing ships and luxury cruise liners which visit this island group
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The islanders divide themselves ethnically into essentially two groups, matching their linguistic division. The cultural differences existing within the Torres Is., at least in the perception of the islanders, essentially match language boundaries: that is, two groups are recognised — the 'people of
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The first permanent mission station and church-house of the Torres Islands was originally established by Durrad on the south coast of Tegua, but was eventually moved to Vipaka, on the southwest side of Lo, following an apparent rumour of incestuous behaviour by the high chief of Tegua, whose sin was
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The meagre archaeological data suggests that the Torres Islands were first populated around 3200 years ago. There is abundant archaeological and oral-history evidence that, before European contact, the pattern of settlements in the Torres Islands was quite different from pattern prevalent in the
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Notwithstanding the existence of a mission in the Torres Islands in the late nineteenth century, a non-local missionary only came to reside in those islands for an extended period in the first decade of the 20th century. This was the Rev.
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Hiw' vs the 'people of Toga'; however, a secondary, less essential division is drawn between the two populations of Lo and Toga. The islanders were first described in very general - and not always accurate - ethnographic terms by
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As of mid-2004, the Torres Islands had a total population of approximately 950 people, dispersed across at least ten settlements of various sizes, all located on or near coastal areas. The names of these settlements are:
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activities that their ancestors did. In addition, key aspects of their ancestral knowledge and ritual cycles are still generally extant. These are dominated by two male-centred institutions, known as the
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as the language of choice for translating and transmitting Christian teachings across the whole region comprising the Banks, Torres and Temotu island groups. As a result, according to local accounts, the
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continued to be taught in the Torres mission school until the early 1970s, and it is still possible to find elder Torres Islanders who can speak and understand Mota.
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Although several European explorers reached the islands in the 19th century, in the early 1880s the islanders were quickly drawn into the sphere of influence of the
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at the beginning of the twentieth century (fragments of Durrad's notes were eventually published in the 1940s), and have been the bailiwick of the anthropologist
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Long before Europeans arrived, the indigenous inhabitants and neighbors of these islands had called them by various other names, the most important of which, in
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is the name given to a smaller group of men who have been initiated into specific types of ritual knowledge that are directly relevant to the manipulation of
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is sometimes used as a cover term for the two dialects). There is no mutual intelligibility between Hiw and Lo-Toga, but many Hiw speakers are bilingual.
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family. As is the case for most unwritten languages of Vanuatu, no detailed description has ever been published yet on them. In 2004 the linguist
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in the Torres group. To date, the sale of Birgus has been directly governed by the fluctuating demand of the tourist market in faraway
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constitutes the local complex of status-alteration rituals by which men are able to acquire greater status and power, while the
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The name “Torres” was bestowed on the islands by European cartographers, in remembrance of the sixteenth-century navigator
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coastal villages of today. It appears that, back then, most villages and extended family areas (called nakamals, or ‘
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Mondragon, Carlos (2004), "Of winds, worms and mana: the traditional calendar of the Torres Islands, Vanuatu",
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Today the inhabitants of the Torres Islands continue to follow to the same general patterns of
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undertook the first descriptive study of these two languages, which is currently in progress.
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Carlos Mondragón's webpage with data and images of the Torres Islands, and useful links
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because they are considered to BE the temporary physical manifestations of
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Two closely related yet distinct languages are spoken in the Torres group:
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The seven islands in the Torres group, from north to south, are
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International Herald Tribune article on sea level rise debate
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are the manufacture and use of ritual headdresses known as
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For the island group between Australia and New Guinea, see
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Lexical and structural etymology: Beyond word histories
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Representative English language publications include
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Like the rest of the country, the islands are in the
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in 1906, and were subsequently incorporated into the
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Detailed list and map of the north Vanuatu languages
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and, to a lesser degree, the provincial township of
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Torres Constituency
Torres Strait Islands
13°15′S 166°37′E / 13.250°S 166.617°E / -13.250; 166.617

island
Torba Province
Vanuatu
Melanesia
Polynesian outliers
Solomon Islands
Temotu Province
Espiritu Santo
Banks Islands
Torres Trench
Australian Plate
Pacific Plate
Hiw
Metoma
Tegua
Ngwel
Linua
Lo
Toga
above sea level
Vanuatu
Luis Vaz de Torres
Terra Australis
Torres Strait
Australia
New Guinea

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