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: value: Foreword / Yves Corbel; value: Introduction / Hamid Mokaddem; value: The right to be happy / Dan Poigoune; value: Humanity and nature / Moïse Pawyli Hwala; value: What's the use of the concept of culture? / Alban Bensa; value: Maternity and social change / Christine Salomon; value: Infectious disease control : culture versus nature? / Yvan Souaŕes; value: Mining and the environment / Bernard Pelletier; value: Non-market services and economic integration : endogenous development dynamics for local resources / Eric Sabourin, Sonia Grochain, Raymond Tyuienon and Philippe Pédelahore; value: 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; value: Noumea - city with two faces : a societal approach / Sylvain Pabouty; value: Terre violente and séjour paisible: reflections on the role of intertextuality in the representations of nature/culture in New Caledonian literature / Raylene Ramsay; value: From place to space : Australian culture from 'My place' to the 'Plains of promise' and the Sydney Olympics / Peter Brown.