Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 168-171). / vi, 171 leaves, bound ill. (some col.) 29 cm

Texte remanié de: Th. Ph.D.--sociology--Bundoora, Victoria, Australie--La Trobe university, 1988.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2007. Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 308-319). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR32075

Thesis (M.A.)--[University of Melbourne], 1977. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [i]-iii).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2009. Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 251-265). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR51691

Texte remanié de: Th. doct.--Lett.--Paris 4, 1985. / Précédemment paru sous le titre "Tanna, les hommes lieux" ORSTOM = Institut français de recherche scientifique pour le développement en coopération. Bibliogr. p. 537-548. Glossaire. Index.

Dimensions of meaning associated with social differentiation among Melanesian peasant producers are explored in this study of customary land tenure and copra production in Longana, Aoba Island, Vanuatu. The notion of "customary illusions" --mystifications experienced as true --is developed to highlight suppositions, expectations and ideals formed in association with traditional land tenure and production for the market. My thesis is that these illusions represent ambiguous but meaningful fragments of complex reality. I use customary illusions as a relativistic device to focus on the whole of the problem of understanding Longanan peasant cash-cropping. The holistic approach I follow interrelates phenomenology, political economy and empiricism as complementary lenses for refracting meaning. The dissertation is based on twenty-eight months field research in 1978-1979 and 1969-1971. It begins with examination of consequences of the colonial history of Vanuatu as an Anglo-French Condominium for retention of customary land tenure and adoption of copra as a peasant cash-crop. I explore ni-Vanuatu illusions of independence amidst dependence and of inalienability of land amidst its alienation as products of the colonial experience. Next, the flexibility of traditional land tenure is investigated phenomenologically through the ambiguity of illusions linked with Longanans' experience of place. This flexibility is both an asset and a liability, ensuring that no one is landless but also allowing 5% of the landholders to control 31% of the plantation land. Inequality arising through land tenure flexibility represents differentiation within the peasantry as a class. Empirical analysis of plantation land distribution and copra sales suggests consequences of this inequality with particular attention to a class category of "big peasants," relatively weal thy, large landholders. Risks and costs that the copra market imposes constrain all producers' agricultural decisions so that, for example, they do not increase production in response to rising prices. Yet, through bargaining with buyers over terms other than prices, Longanans assert some control over market exchanges and affirm their own illusory independence. In sum, the dissertation seeks to enrich understanding of peasant producers' behaviour by analyzing the meaningful ambiguity of our illusions about them, and theirs about themselves. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Doctorat en sciences sociales, politiques et économiques / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Cette thèse propose une analyse des relations entre les forces globales et locales qui agissent dans le cadre de la prévention des Infections Sexuellement Transmissibles (IST) au Vanuatu. Ayant constaté que le nombre d’acteurs et d’actions en santé sexuelle et reproductive était relativement important dans l’archipel au regard du faible nombre de cas de Virus de l’Immunodéficience Humaine (VIH) déclarés par le gouvernement et que le Vanuatu connaissait des problèmes de santé impactant la morbidité et la mortalité de ses habitants d’une manière plus sévère que les IST, je me suis intéressée aux effets de la mondialisation contemporaine qui pouvaient éclairer ce décalage. Mon analyse se fonde sur des données collectées entre 2009 et 2012 au cours de dix-huit mois de terrain de recherches dans l’archipel (essentiellement dans la capitale Port-Vila), ainsi que sur deux missions de consultante réalisées en 2012 et en 2013 pour les Nations unies. Mon travail établit que les organismes œuvrant en matière de santé sexuelle et reproductive à Port-Vila cherchent à transmettre des normes, des catégories et des concepts reconnus et admis au niveau international. Il révèle aussi que ces organismes mettent en avant de nouvelles hiérarchies de valeurs et des représentations de la personne différentes de celles le plus souvent présentées par la population locale et qu’ils participent à la diffusion des discours mettant en association la vie en milieu urbain et les IST. Cependant, les ni-Vanuatu employés par ces organismes pour conduire des actions de prévention en matière de santé sexuelle et reproductive dans la capitale réalisent un important travail de traduction – ou, si l’on peut dire, de vernacularisation – de ces notions et les habitants de Port-Vila, tels ceux de Seaside Tongoa, sont confrontés à une multiplicité de sources de savoirs qui imprègnent de diverses manières leurs façons de penser et d’agir autour de ces questions. / This thesis presents an analysis of the relations between the global and local forces at work in the context of the prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) in Vanuatu. I noted that, in the archipelago, the number of actors and actions in the field of sexual and reproductive health was relatively large considering the small number of cases of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) declared by the government and that Vanuatu had health problems impacting its population’s morbidity and mortality more severely that STI’s. I therefore became interested in the effects of contemporary globalization which might explain this discrepancy. My analysis is based on data collected between 2009 and 2012 during eighteen months’ fieldwork research in the archipelago (mainly in the capital, Port-Vila), as well as on two consultancy missions for the United Nations in 2012 and 2013. My work establishes that the organizations working in sexual and reproductive health in Port-Vila endeavour to transmit internationally recognized and acknowledged norms, categories and concepts. It also reveals that these bodies propose new hierarchies of values and representations of personhood different from those usually presented by the local population and contribute to the spread of discourses associating life in urban environments with STIs. However, the ni-Vanuatu employed by these organizations to run prevention programmes concerning sexual and reproductive health in the capital do considerable work translating these notions, and the inhabitants of Port-Vila, for instance those of Seaside Tongoa, encounter a profusion of sources of knowledge which affect how they think and act with regard to these questions differently.