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Social Representations of Taukuka: A social knowledge approach to the preservation of Bellonese intangible cultural heritageLeeming, David January 2016 (has links)
Solomon Islands along with other Pacific Islands nations is adopting legislation designed to protect traditional knowledge and expressions of culture from misappropriation, attrition and loss of economic opportunity for owners. These developments require the state to engage across a highly pluralistic customary and social landscape. Ethnographic studies have shown that owing to such plurality unintended consequences may arise from attempts to rationalise indigenous conceptualisations such as customary laws to render them accessible to outside interests. The preservation of intangible cultural heritage requires understanding of the communicative processes that maintain its significance and value and which are involved in its continuation, transformation and transmission. This study approaches this challenge from the perspective of social knowledge; the common-sense and empirical reality experienced by the owners of a representative aspect of the culture. The case chosen for this research is the ritual taukuka tattooing practice of the Bellonese people of Solomon Islands. Social representations theory is used to show that the field of representation of this cultural practice is heterogeneous with consensual and non-consensual features. Whilst revival of the taukuka is unlikely due to prerequisite religious ontology, its preservation as significant heritage where ownership remains with the lineages and families may best be assured through cultural education and artistic representations.
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The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: The Failure of Japan's "Monroe Doctrine" for AsiaGiles, Nathaniel W 01 May 2015 (has links)
By 1942, the Japanese occupied nearly all of East and Southeast Asia and their influence even spread as far as British controlled India. This occupation, known as The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, was an ideological unity of Asia under the facade of mutual benefit and welfare of Japan and the other nations within the Sphere. However, The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere failed because of the inability of the Japanese to form this mutual benefit between the nations within the Sphere. This work evaluates the events that led to The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, life within the Sphere, and the reasons for its failure.
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Samoan For MissionariesDunn, Scott C. 01 January 1983 (has links)
This thesis is a textbook designed to assist LDS missionaries studying the Samoan language both in a two-month intensive language-learning school (the Missionary Training Center) and in individual study in the Samoan Islands. The thesis is prefaced with a rationale for and explanation of the Missionary Training Center language program and the design and purposes of the text itself.The textbook contains fifty Samoan language lessons, divided into ten units of five lessons each. At the end of each unit is a review module, or test. Except for two overview lessons (designed to introduce grammatical terms and pronunciation), each of the fifty lessons is either a grammar lesson (consisting of presentation and practice of grammar rules sequenced from simple to complex) or a Speak Your Language lesson (consisting of presentation and practice of phrases, patterns, and vocabulary required for competence in particular notions and situations, sequenced according to the communicative needs of the missionaries). Supplementary material included at the end of the book includes Extra Mile Lessons (additional information on grammar, phrases, patterns, and vocabulary) and two appendices (Samoan songs and a bibliography).
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La résilience des systèmes socio-écologiques des États atolliens dans le contexte du changement climatique : le cas de Kiribati (Pacifique Sud) / The resilience in social-ecological systems of atoll states in the context of climate change : the case of Kiribati (South Pacific)Longépée, Esméralda 23 May 2014 (has links)
La menace représentée par le changement climatique, et en particulier l’élévation du niveau de la mer, sur les pays entièrement composés d’atolls est largement médiatisée. La République de Kiribati est un pays atollien situé dans l’océan Pacifique, peuplé par 100 000 habitants. Au cours des derniers siècles, les communautés atolliennes de Kiribati ont développé un système de gestion des ressources naturelles qui a assuré leur survie. Depuis quelques décennies, la mondialisation est cause de mutations rapides, en particulier dans le mode de vie et dans la relation des communautés atolliennes à leur environnement naturel. Étant donné le caractère fortement intégré du système sociétal et de l’écosystème dans les atolls, cette thèse aborde la question de l’avenir des pays atolliens dans le contexte du changement climatique par l’étude de la résilience de leurs systèmes socio-écologiques. La résilience d’un système correspond à sa capacité à absorber des perturbations et à se réorganiser tandis qu’il subit des changements tout en conservant la même fonction, structure, identité et les mêmes rétroactions. Cette thèse postule qu’une estimation de la résilience des systèmes socio-écologiques aux perturbations d’origine météo-marine nécessite au préalable une analyse de leur résilience générale. De telles estimations s’appuient sur des modèles conceptuels réalisés à partir de résultats d’entretiens et d’enquêtes menés à Kiribati, et sur l’analyse d’images aériennes. L’avenir des pays atolliens est discuté en envisageant différents scénarios : l’adaptation, la transformation, la migration et l’effondrement. / The threats to states entirely composed of atolls from climate change and associated sea-level rise have been widely publicized. The Republic of Kiribati is an atoll country situated in Pacific Ocean settled by 100,000 inhabitants. Over the past centuries, the atoll communities of Kiribati have developed natural resource management systems that have enabled their survival. Over the past decades, globalization has caused rapid changes, especially regarding lifestyles and relationships of atoll communities to their natural environment. Given the highly integrated nature of the societal system and the ecosystem in the atolls, this thesis addresses the question of the future of atoll countries in the context of climate change by studying the resilience of their social-ecological systems. Resilience is the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize while undergoing change so as to still retain essentially the same function, structure, identity, and feedbacks. This thesis postulated that an assessment of social-ecological resilience of climate- and marine-related disturbances required a preliminary analysis of their general resilience. Such assessments are based on conceptual models made from interviews and surveys and from the analysis of aerial imagery. The future of atoll countries is discussed considering different scenario: adaptation, transformation, migration and collapse.
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Repulsion as the Antithesis of Attraction in Soft Power Studies : How Australia's climate change response has elicited a feeling of repulsion in the Pacific islandsWestley, Sebastian January 2021 (has links)
The ultimate aim of this thesis is to contribute to the development of the concept of repulsion in soft power studies. This is achieved through the operational aim, which is to understand the concept of repulsion by exploring how a feeling of repulsion can be engendered in a state or region by the actions or inactions of the agent. As the antithesis of attraction, I argue that repulsion can be elicited in the subject (state or region) through the culture, values or policies of the agent. Australia’s much maligned climate change response and how it has been received in the Pacific islands was selected as a case study. It was concluded through the application of a repulsion framework that Australia’s response to climate change has likely elicited a feeling of repulsion in the Pacific islands. Through the development of a bespoke repulsion framework, in conjunction with an appropriate methodology that supports the identification of repulsion engendered in a subject by an agent, this study contributes to the advancement of repulsion as a cogent concept in soft power studies.
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Les théologies contextuelles dans le Pacifique Sud au XXe siècle. Analyse des conditions de production d'un discours religieux en situation / Pacific Islands’ Contextual Theologies in the in XXth Century. An Analysis of the Production of Religious Views in SituationVidal, Gilles 16 February 2011 (has links)
Cette thèse est une analyse descriptive de la théologie contextuelle protestante contemporaine dans le Pacifique Sud insulaire. Elle privilégie une approche interdisciplinaire faisant appel à l’histoire, la socio-anthropologie, la missiologie et la théologie. La première partie s’intéresse de manière diachronique à l’émergence de cette nouvelle théologie dans un contexte de décolonisation et de régionalisation du christianisme à travers le réseau œcuménique des Églises du Pacifique, des années 1970 aux années 2000. Trois figures de proue de la théologie océanienne contemporaine sont étudiées en détail : Sione ‘Amanaki Havea, Sevati Tuwere, Ama ‘amalele Tofaeono. La deuxième partie est une approche synchronique et typologique des thèmes abordés par la théologie contextuelle dans le Pacifique : le discours sur Dieu proprement dit, l’image du Christ se dégageant d’une christologie océanienne, la théologie « de la célébration » et « la théologie de l’identité ». L’utilisation théologique de symboles culturels tels que la terre ou le pays (fenua / vanua), le kava, la case, l’igname, etc. y est examinée ; de même que le rapport entre religion et culture ainsi que le recours à la tradition. La troisième et dernière partie porte sur la question théorique de la contextualisation de la théologie, l’origine du terme et du concept ainsi que ses limites dans une perspective œcuménique. Elle reprend également la question de l’articulation entre la culture et la théologie dans le contexte contemporain de la mondialisation du christianisme. / This Ph. D. Thesis offers a description of contemporary contextual Pacific Islands’ theology. The methodological approach is interdisciplinary, drawing on history, sociology and anthropology, missiology, and theology. The first part is a diachronic study of the origin of this new kind of theology in the context of decolonisation and regionalisation of Christianity through the Pacific Churches’ ecumenical network from the 1970’s to the 2000’s. The thoughts of three contemporary Pacific theologians are presented in detail: Sione ‘Amanaki Havea, Sevati Tuwere, Ama ‘Amalele Tofaeono. The second part is more synchronic, proposing a typology of specific theological themes in the Pacific: the different representations of God, Christology, “Theology of Celebration”, “Theology of Identity”. The purpose of this part is to work on cultural symbols like the land or homeland (fenua / vanua), kava, traditional hut, and yam, among others, and to study the link between religion and culture and the use of tradition. The third and last part deals with the theoretical issue of contextualisation in theology, the origin of the word and of the concept of contextualisation as well as its limits from an ecumenical point of view. This section also takes into account the problematic of the connection between culture and theology in the contemporary context of a globalised Christianity.
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Anthropométrie, alimentation et risque du cancer différencié de la thyroïde dans les îles du Pacifique / Anthropometry, diet and risk of differentiated thyroid cancer in the Pacific IslandsCléro, Enora 15 March 2012 (has links)
La Polynésie française et la Nouvelle-Calédonie, îles du Pacifique, ont l’un des taux de cancer de la thyroïde les plus élevés au monde. A l’exception des rayonnements ionisants, aucun autre facteur de risque n’est clairement établi pour ce cancer. Deux études cas-témoins sur le cancer de la thyroïde ont été réalisées en Polynésie française et Nouvelle-Calédonie afin d’étudier les facteurs de risque qui sont encore peu connus. L'objectif de ce travail de thèse est d’étudier le rôle des facteurs anthropométriques et de l’alimentation sur le risque de cancer de la thyroïde dans les îles du Pacifique.En Polynésie française, 229 cas de cancer de la thyroïde diagnostiqués entre 1979 et 2004 et 371 témoins appariés sur l’âge et le sexe ont été inclus. En Nouvelle-Calédonie, 331 cas de cancer de la thyroïde diagnostiqués entre 1993 et 1999 et 412 témoins appariés également sur l’âge et le sexe ont été inclus.Dans l’analyse poolée des deux études cas-témoins, un peu plus de la moitié des Polynésiens et Néo-calédoniens étaient en surpoids ou obèses. Une augmentation du risque de cancer thyroïdien a été mise en évidence avec une taille, un poids, un indice de masse corporelle, et une surface corporelle élevés. Parmi ces facteurs anthropométriques, la surface corporelle joue un rôle dominant dans le risque de cancer de la thyroïde, en particulier à l’âge de 18 ans.Ensuite, nous nous sommes intéressés à l’alimentation des Polynésiens uniquement. Nous avons identifié deux régimes (ou patterns) alimentaires : l’un occidental et l’autre polynésien traditionnel. Le régime « occidental » n’était pas associé à un risque de cancer thyroïdien, alors que le régime « polynésien traditionnel » était faiblement associé à une diminution du risque. Par ailleurs, les résultats ont montré que les Polynésiens avaient une alimentation carencée en iode. Une consommation élevée de poissons et fruits de mer, ainsi qu’un apport alimentaire en iode élevé étaient associés à une diminution du risque de cancer de la thyroïde. Enfin, une consommation élevée de manioc, aliment goitrigène, diminuait le risque de cancer thyroïdien. / French Polynesia and New Caledonia, Pacific Islands, have one of the world’s highest thyroid cancer incidence rates. Except ionizing radiation, no other risk factor is clearly established for this cancer. Two case-control studies on thyroid cancer were conducted in French Polynesia and New Caledonia to investigate the risk factors not still understood. The objective of this thesis is to study the role of anthropometric and dietary factors in the risk of thyroid cancer in the Pacific Islands.In French Polynesia, 229 cases of thyroid cancer diagnosed between 1979 and 2004 and 371 controls matched on age and sex were included. In New Caledonia, 331 cases of thyroid cancer diagnosed between 1993 and 1999 and 412 controls matched also on age and sex were included.In the pooled analysis of the two case-control studies, half of Polynesians and Melanesians were overweighed or obese. An increased risk of thyroid cancer was shown with a high height, weight, body mass index, and body surface area. Among anthropometric factors, BSA plays a dominant role in thyroid cancer risk, in particular at 18 years old.Then, we are interested in the diet only of Polynesians. We have identified two dietary patterns: Western and traditional Polynesian. The pattern “Western" was not associated with a risk of thyroid cancer, while the pattern "traditional Polynesian" was weakly associated with a decreased risk. Moreover, results showed that Polynesians had a diet deficient in iodine. A higher consumption of fish and shellfish, and a higher dietary iodine intake are significantly associated with a decreased risk of thyroid cancer. Lastly, high cassava consumption decreased the thyroid cancer risk.
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Models for Local Implementation of Comprehensive Cancer Control: Meeting Local Cancer Control Needs Through Community CollaborationBehringer, Bruce, Lofton, Staci, Knight, Margaret L. 01 December 2010 (has links)
The comprehensive cancer control approach is used by state, tribes, tribal organizations, territorial and Pacific Island Jurisdiction cancer coalitions to spur local implementation of cancer plans to reduce the burden of cancer in jurisdictions across the country. There is a rich diversity of models and approaches to the development of relationships and scope of planning for cancer control activities between coalitions and advocates in local communities. The national comprehensive cancer control philosophy provides an operational framework while support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention enables coalitions to act as catalysts to bring local partners together to combat cancer in communities. This manuscript describes multiple characteristics of cancer coalitions and how they are organized. Two models of how coalitions and local partners collaborate are described. A case study method was used to identify how five different state and tribal coalitions use the two models to organize their collaborations with local communities that result in local implementation of cancer plan priorities. Conclusions support the use of multiple organizing models to ensure involvement of diverse interests and sensitivity to local cancer issues that encourages implementation of cancer control activities.
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Dosalsal, the floating ones : exploring the socio-cultural impacts of cruise ship tourism on Port Vila, Vanuatu residents, and their coping strategiesNiatu, A. L. January 2007 (has links)
The purpose of this study was to explore the socio-cultural impacts of cruise ship tourism on Port Vila residents and their coping strategies. The study was conducted in Port Vila over the months of June and July 2006. It employs the use of a qualitative research methodology, of participant observation, and semi-structured interviews with a range of tourism stakeholders, including the government, the church and chiefs, as well as a number of small businesses such as public transport operators, small indigenous tour operators and market vendors. These observations and interviews were conducted at the Mama’s Haus project, Centre Point Market Place, and the main wharf area. This thesis was initially aimed at exploring the strategies that the residents of Port Vila used to cope with the impacts caused by cruise ship tourism. As the research progressed, it become apparent from primary data collected that market vendors have not just adapted to the impacts of cruise ship tourism, but that the consequences of their adaptation may be seen as empowering them. They are empowered not just economically, but also psychologically, socially and politically. However, it must be acknowledged that not all small tourist operators in this study felt positively about the impacts of cruise ship tourism; some may be seen as being disempowered. Furthermore, the empowerment of these market vendors is dependent on the continuous flow of cruise ship visits to Port Vila; something beyond their control. The cancellation of future trips or decrease in the number of cruise ship voyages will have significant consequences for the sustainability of this informal sector and the longevity of these micro-enterprises. The study finding implies that coping strategies should not just address how residents and communities cope or respond to tourism, but should also go further by addressing the consequences of the coping strategies adopted.
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A Translation of Dominik Nagl’s Grenzfälle with an Introductory Analysis of the Translation ProcessKeady, Joseph 01 February 2020 (has links)
My thesis is an analysis of my own translation of a chapter from Dominik Nagl's legal history 'Grenzfälle,' which addresses questions of citizenship and nationality in the context of the German colonies in Africa and the South Pacific. My analysis focuses primarily on strategies that I used in an effort to preserve the strangeness of a linguistic context that is, in many ways, "foreign" to twenty first-century North Americans while also striving to avoid reproducing the violence embedded in language that is historically laden with extreme power disparities.
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