Look up kastom in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kastom is a pidgin word (Bislama/Tok Pisin) used to refer to traditional culture, including religion...

(Bislama) term kastom. Kastom was expressed through religion, clothing, native arts, indigenous culture and languages. The development of kastom was a symbol...

support of local kastom decreased due to missionaries’ habitual suppression of the incorporated local values, practices, and traditions. Kastom is an all-encompassing...

The Prince Philip movement is a religious sect followed by the Kastom people around the villages of Yaohnanen and Yakel on the southern island of Tanna...

Christianity and work on copra plantations, and they had to return to traditional kastom (the Bislama language word for customs). In 1941, followers of John Frum...

told the people to return to their traditional way of life, or kastom. From that time kastom on Tanna has been seen as an alternative to the modernity encouraged...

the island of Tanna, people following the Kastom have always enforced arranged marriages. The people of Kastom Road face sporadic conflicts with the Imedin...

the country of Vanuatu. Traditional music (known in Bislama as kastom singsing or kastom tanis) is still thriving in the rural areas of Vanuatu. Musical...

as a cause of poverty and foreign dependency, the movement promotes the kastom (custom) economy, based on traditional systems of economic exchange and...

practising their traditional customs, and cultural identity referred to as Ailan Kastom. The Islanders refer to this event as "The Coming of the Light", also known...