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Chapters: Culture of Kiribati, Dance in Kiribati, Bubuti System, Pubusi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 19. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Contemporary Kiribati culture is centered around the family, the church and the sea. Its relative isolation Kiribati has allowed "traditional values" and skills to be maintained. Kiribati has a history of contrived and ritualized duels. The armor was made of thickly woven sennet, a kind of coconut fiber. The duelists wore helmets made of blowfish remains. The helmets were resilient and, due to the structure of blowfish, covered with many points, which had the ability of damaging weapons. The weapons resembled broadswords with a serrated edge created with many shark teeth. The duels were performed mostly for the purpose of settling disputes and maintaining honor. The practicality of the duels is debatable. Due to the difficulty of moving in this armor, falling over and becoming unable to get back up was common enough that duel assistants were required. Kiribati has been known for its traditional martial arts which were kept within the secrets of several families for generations. The Kiribati arts of fighting as opposed to Asian martial arts are not often mentioned or even advertised to be known by the general public. Though, there maybe be some noticeable parallels in principle to that of Asian martial arts, they are merely really different. For instance, generally, there is no kicking as in Karate kicks or Kung Fu kicks, and speed is more important than power. The list of these traditional martial arts is as follows(this is not a complete list): Nabakai, Nakara, Ruabou, Tabiang, Taborara, Tebania, Temata-aua, Te Rawarawanimon, Terotauea. The essense of Kiribati traditional martial arts is the magical power of the spirits of the ancestral wa...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4964874 ... Read more

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Translated from the 1965 German edition. The final stage of the old material culture of Kiribati that developed to the time of European contact. Well illustrated and exhaustively described with abundant ethnographic narrative. Index and bibliography. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Countries and Their Cultures, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 961 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Covers the broad range of popular religious culture of the United States at the close of the twentieth century. Beliefs, practices, symbols, traditions, movements, organizations, and leaders from the many traditions in the pluralistic American community are represented. Also includes cults and phenomena that drew followers, such as Heaven's Gale and UFOs. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Drapeau Des Kiribati, Teirake Kaini Kiribati, Armoiries Des Kiribati, Maneaba. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Le drapeau des Kiribati fut créé à l'origine comme armoiries en 1937 par sir Arthur Grimble, commissaire-résident des îles Gilbert et Ellice. Sous forme de drapeau, il a été adopté comme drapeau national le 12 juillet 1979 lors de l'indépendance de la république. Le drapeau représente un soleil levant (otintaai), survolé par une frégate (te eitei), qui émerge des flots du Pacifique. Le soleil darde de 17 rayons, symbole des 16 îles Gilbert et de l'île de Banaba. Les flots du Pacifique sont répartis en trois parties, comme les trois archipels de l'État (Gilbert, Phœnix et îles de la Ligne). La frégate (Fregata minor), qui représente un messager traditionnel et respecté, est l'oiseau emblématique des I-Kiribati (ethnonyme vernaculaire des Gilbertins). Si la version présentée est celle utilisée le plus souvent, il existe une version où les rayons du soleil sont plus nombreux (21 voire 22 au lieu des 17 traditionnels) pour tenir compte que 21 îles de la République sont désormais habitées (trois îles de la Ligne et Canton (îles Phœnix). Dans une lettre au haut-commissaire du Pacifique occidental (à Suva) écrite de la part de sir Arthur Grimble, il était écrit au sujet des armoiries de la colonie : On trouve également dans la documentation officielle Les couleurs sont définies par : ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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