| The majority of the residents of the Northern Province live in villages, and nearly all these villagers are Kanak, New Caledonian Melanesians. |
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| The native inhabitants of Melanesia, called Melanesians, are characteristically dark-skinned with frizzy hair. |
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| It is comprised predominantly of Melanesians with the rest of the population consisting of Polynesians, Micronesians, and small pockets of Chinese and Europeans. |
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| The interanimation of contexts of display, movement and utterance will be one dynamic factor in the ongoing changing lives of Melanesians and their significant others. |
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| Its native people are dark-skinned, curly-haired Melanesians. |
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| The island populations of the Pacific Ocean have historically been divided, on the basis of geography and culture, into Polynesians, Micronesians, and Melanesians. |
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| However, for Melanesians, few of whom have learnt English as their first language, the text in this book would be, in some places, unnecessarily impenetrable. |
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| Here, outside of the state, Melanesians create their own carceral society with its own diffuse forms of self-policing, surveillance, discipline and moral watchfulness. |
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| Fiji has been inhabited since the second millennium BC, and was settled first by Austronesians and later by Melanesians, with some Polynesian influences. |
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| Another major grouping are the Melanesians, who inhabit eastern Indonesia. |
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| Melanesians were barred from acquiring the citizenship of either power. |
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