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Eleven approaches to culture and nature in the South Pacific / [translated from French by Roy Benyon and Sheryl Mellor].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: Nouméa [New Caledonia] : Cultural Affairs Programme, SPC, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 164 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9820001129
  • 9789820001121
Other title:
  • 11 approaches to culture and nature in the South Pacific
  • Culture and nature
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 995 22
Contents:
Foreword / Yves Corbel -- Introduction / Hamid Mokaddem -- I. Culture. The right to be happy / Dan Pigoune. Humanity and nature / Moïse Pawyli Hwala. What's the use of the concept of culture? / Alban Bensa -- II. Health. Maternity and social change / Christine Salomon. Infectious disease control : Culture versus nature? / Yvan Souarès -- III. Industry, economy and the environment. Mining and the environment / Bernard Pelletier. Non-market services and economic integration : endogenous development dynamics for local resources / Eric Sabourin ... [et al.] -- IV. Urbanisation and land. Alterations to and development of Pacific Island environments by humanity in prehistoric times : From regional characteristics to specific features in New Caledonia / Christophe Sand, Jacques Bolé and André Ouetcha. Noumea - city with two faces : a societal approach / Sylvain Pabouty -- V. Expressions of identity. Terre violente and séjour paisible : reflections on the role of intertextuality in representations of nature/culture in New Caledonian literature / Raylene Ramsay. From place to space : Australian culture from My place to the Plains of promise and the Sydney Olympics / Peter Brown.
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"Contains a selection of 11 papers presented at a symposium held in New Caledonia in 2003: Approches autour de culture et nature dans le Pacifique sud (Approaches to culture and nature in the South Pacific)"--Introd.

Includes contributions from author resident in New Zealand.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Yves Corbel -- Introduction / Hamid Mokaddem -- I. Culture. The right to be happy / Dan Pigoune. Humanity and nature / Moïse Pawyli Hwala. What's the use of the concept of culture? / Alban Bensa -- II. Health. Maternity and social change / Christine Salomon. Infectious disease control : Culture versus nature? / Yvan Souarès -- III. Industry, economy and the environment. Mining and the environment / Bernard Pelletier. Non-market services and economic integration : endogenous development dynamics for local resources / Eric Sabourin ... [et al.] -- IV. Urbanisation and land. Alterations to and development of Pacific Island environments by humanity in prehistoric times : From regional characteristics to specific features in New Caledonia / Christophe Sand, Jacques Bolé and André Ouetcha. Noumea - city with two faces : a societal approach / Sylvain Pabouty -- V. Expressions of identity. Terre violente and séjour paisible : reflections on the role of intertextuality in representations of nature/culture in New Caledonian literature / Raylene Ramsay. From place to space : Australian culture from My place to the Plains of promise and the Sydney Olympics / Peter Brown.

English, French.

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