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A country in Oceania. Official name: Republic of Vanuatu.

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Part of Oceania, made up of New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Fiji.

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, passage=My job, then, is that of a cultural and religious broker of sorts, co-opting Melanesia to serve as a stimulus to thought in Le Moyne classrooms. , page=315 , title=Thinking and teaching with the indigenous traditions of Melanesia , journal=Beyond primitivism: indigenous religious traditions and modernity , author=Mary N. MacDonald , publisher=Routledge , year=2004 , isbn=041527320X}}