Eleven approaches to culture and nature in the South Pacific
By: [translated from French by Roy Benyon and Sheryl Mellor].
Contributors: Secretariat of the Pacific Community. Cultural Affairs Programme.
Publisher: Cultural Affairs Programme, SPC
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Nouméa [New Caledonia]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9789820001121
Subjects: Natural history -- Oceania.; Ethnology -- Oceania.; Oceania -- Civilization.
Other titles: Culture and nature
Notes: "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.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Yves Corbel; title: Introduction / Hamid Mokaddem; title: The right to be happy / Dan Poigoune; title: Humanity and nature / Moïse Pawyli Hwala; title: What's the use of the concept of culture? / Alban Bensa; title: Maternity and social change / Christine Salomon; title: Infectious disease control : culture versus nature? / Yvan Souaŕes; title: Mining and the environment / Bernard Pelletier; title: Non-market services and economic integration : endogenous development dynamics for local resources / Eric Sabourin, Sonia Grochain, Raymond Tyuienon and Philippe Pédelahore; title: 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 Outecho; title: Noumea - city with two faces : a societal approach / Sylvain Pabouty; title: Terre violente and séjour paisible: reflections on the role of intertextuality in the representations of nature/culture in New Caledonian literature / Raylene Ramsay; title: From place to space : Australian culture from 'My place' to the 'Plains of promise' and the Sydney Olympics / Peter Brown.