Plantation networks, plantation culture: the hidden side of colonial Melanesia.

The plantations to which young Melanesian men have been going for a century, which have brought together diverse languages and cultural traditions, have received little anthropological attention. Yet in the plantation world, it is argued, a plantation culture, partial but remarkably stable, has developed; and in this world ideas have been transmitted and shared, which then have taken root in the diverse societies from which workers came.