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Hess, Sabine Claudia. "Person and place on Vanua Lava, Vanuatu." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/10864.
Full textBonnemaison, Joël. "L'Arbre et la pirogue /." Bondy : Éd. de l'ORSTOM, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb349050507.
Full textBonnemaison, Joël. "Gens de pirogue et gens de terre /." Paris : Éd. de l'ORSTOM, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35855124z.
Full textPrécédemment paru sous le titre : "L'arbre et la pirogue" Index. ORSTOM = Institut français de recherche scientifique pour le développement en coopération.
Stern, Monika. "Les femmes, les nattes et la musique sur l'île de Pentecôte (Vanuatu)." Paris 4, 2002. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01987080.
Full textThe melanesian archipelago of Vanuatu is made up of a multitude of islands, one of them, is Pentecost. This work is essentially devoted to the music of the women of the island. The first part, describes the sociocultural context and emphasizes on the musics which highlight the important moments in the life of its inhabitants. The ceremonies which include these musics are shown through the observations of the daily life. The second part is devoted to the musical analysis. They are based on a 43 musical examples, which are recorded on a CD enclosed with this work. The analysis is focused on the scales, the intervals, the structures and the rythms. The last part studies the role of music in ceremonial exchanges. A parallel is thus established between music and traditional money in the form of red braids, made exclusively by women. Music under the rule of copyright has an economical aspect which is also studied
Greindl, Delphine. "Vivres en ville: des jardins au marché sur l'archipel du Vanuatu." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211852.
Full textMonjaret, Marie-Claire. "Le magmatisme des fossés à l'arrière de l'arc des Nouvelles Hébrides (Vanuatu) (campagne SEAPSO 2 du NO JEan Charcot) : implications géodynamiques : chronologie, pétrologie, géochimie." Brest, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989BRES2010.
Full textTzerikiantz, Fabienne. "Ples blong mi wea ?" Aix-Marseille 1, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006AIX10023.
Full textRiou, Virginie. "Trajectoires pseudo-coloniales : les Français du condominium franco-anglais des ex-Nouvelles-Hébrides (Vanuatu) de la fin du XIXe siècle à l'entre deux guerres." Paris, EHESS, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010EHES0573.
Full textVandeputte-Tavo, Leslie. "D' une fonction véhiculaire à une fonction identitaire : trajectoire du bislama au Vanuatu (Mélanésie)." Paris, EHESS, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014EHES0629.
Full textThis dissertation focuses on the place of Bislama in the linguistic lanscape of the Republic of Vanuatu. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted mainly in the multilingual context of the capital Port-Vila. It examines Bislama's situation in different social fields: politics, religion, communication tools (media, telephony, internet) and school. It analyzes the representations of Bislama and language practices associated with it. The approach highlights the linguistic ideologies underlying ambivalence of representations and practices of the national language by its speakers. These ideologies explain the "unrecognized recognition" of Bislama and show the complexity power relations at work in a postcolonial context where pluridiglossic conflict emerges. Implicitly, by examining the importance of the national language, the representations of the nation and the national identification process through a common language are better understood
Tabani, Marc Babadzan Alain. "Syncrétisme, traditionalisme et nationalisme à Vanuatu /." Montpellier : Université Paul Valéry, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37563938b.
Full textTabani, Marc Kurt. "Syncrétisme, traditionalisme et nationalisme à Vanuatu." Montpellier 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000MON30004.
Full textMecartney, Sarah Anne Nautong. "Blacksands settlement : a case for urban permanence in Vanuatu." Master's thesis, School of Geosciences, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3987.
Full textDavid, Gilbert. "Pêche villageoise et alimentation au Vanuatu : exploration d'un système." Brest, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991BRES1002.
Full textThis thesis deals with the relationships between fisheries and food supply studied as a system. A first book deals with the regional, human and physical environnement of the system. The books 2 and 3 deals with an input and output flux analysis on the system's border. The fisheries food supply on 1984 is appraised to 4,322-4,885 t giving 415 t of proteins for the ni-Vanuata population whose yearly proteic needs are 2,332 t. The book 4 deals with the structural and fonctionnal causes of the fisheries product under-consumption. It is divided in three chapters. The first one deals with the distribution and conservation network whose problems are discussed. The second chapter deals with the demand including the family income and expeditures, the food evolution, the competition between the fresh fish and the tinned fish and the prospects for the demand increase. The last chapter deals with the scarcity of the fish supply. The prospects for the supply increase and the constraints on this development are discussed as the problems relative to the fisheries policy. The emphasis is put on the flexibility and the adaptability which should show every fisheries policy
Dimock, Laura Gail. "A grammar of Nahavaq (Malakula, Vanuatu) : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1183.
Full textHochet, Antoine. "Les enjeux de l'aide publique au développement au Vanuatu." Paris, EHESS, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EHES0667.
Full textThis article aims at drafting an analysis of the issues of official development aid in Vanuatu. We will notably question the donors' modalities of aid delivering in the light of local priorities of this Pacific island Micro-state among the most assisted per capita in the world. The analysis of aid's effects fed a large literature, often controversial within the academic, political and mediatic fields, in particular in Africa and by granting an important weight to culture explaining under-development and poverty. The analysis of field data hathered during two years at the Vanuatu Cultural centre, national institution in charge of the implementation of cultural and scientific research policies, and the socio-anthropological approach, applied in an unprecedented and exploratory way, will lead to highlight links between aid and culture. Concentrated on project' "side effects", this study will allow to modelize the issue of aid appropriation in a region where knowledge regimes of development's experts turn out to be hardly accessible for locals
Farran, Sue. "Vanuatu : lands in a sea of islands." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2013. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/15613/.
Full textPipite, Jean. "La situation internationale du Vanuatu depuis l'indépendance." Paris 1, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA010327.
Full textFrançois, Alexandre. "La sémantique du prédicat en Mwotlap, Vanuatu /." Leuven ; Paris : Peeters, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38989828f.
Full textBibliogr. p. 377-382. Index.
Loehr, Johanna K. "Reducing climate risk to Vanuatu destinations holistically." Thesis, Griffith University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/397585.
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Dept Tourism, Sport & Hot Mgmt
Griffith Business School
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Bonnemaison, Joël. "Les gens des lieux : histoire et géosymboles d'une société enracinée : Tanna /." Paris : Éd. de l'ORSTOM, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36198333z.
Full textPrécédemment 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.
Servy, Alice. "« AIDS IS HERE! » Prévenir les infections sexuellement transmissibles à Port-Vila, Vanuatu." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017EHES0014.
Full textThis 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
Bourdy, Geneviève. "Ethnopharmacologie et vie sexuelle à Vanuatu. Etude pharmacochimique de Dysoxylum gaudichaudianum (Juss. ) Miq." Montpellier 1, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989MON13501.
Full textMcdonald, Lisa. "Creating Kastom : contemporary art in Port Vila, Vanuatu." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2015. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/60783/.
Full textSperlich, Wolfgang B. 1948. "Namakir: a description of a central Vanuatu language." Thesis, University of Auckland, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2314.
Full textRousseau, Benedicta Elisabeth. "The achievement of simultaneity : kastom in contemporary Vanuatu." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.615969.
Full textBergeot, Nicolas. "Etude du cycle sismique du Vanuatu par GPS." Paris, Institut de physique du globe, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007GLOB0004.
Full textSubduction processes are often controlled by irregularities on the subducting plate. These structures may be responsible of the locking of the subduction process and control the arc deformation. The characterization of the intra-arc strain accumulation is thus essential to understand the seismic cycle in a seismogenic zone where very strong earthquakes occur. The Vanuatu subduction zone presents one of the most important variation in horizontal convergence motion along a trench: 12-17cm/yr relative to the Australian plate to 1. 5cm/yr in front of the d'Entrecasteaux ridge. The collision of the d'Entrecasteaux ridge yields arc island vertical movements estimated at several mm/year as well as strong recurring earthquakes (e. G. Ambrym, 1999, Mw = 7. 5; Santo, 2000, Mw = 6. 9). A dense GPS network set up in the area since 1990 by the IRD team already made possible to evidence a segmentation of the arc and block rotations. In the present study, we analyse all the available data since 1992 and those acquired during two new GPS campaigns we carried out in 2004 and 2005. We use a state-of-the-art analysis strategy to estimate a consistent horizontal and vertical velocity field. The 13-year GPS time series we obtained allows us to isolate the coseismic signal related to two major earthquakes. We discuss the fault parameters we estimate from the coseismic displacements and on the accumulation zone during the interseismic stage
Quero, Garcia José. "Diversité génétique et amélioration des taros du Vanuatu." Montpellier, ENSA, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004ENSA0009.
Full textThis study has been conducted both in Montpellier (CIRAD-Biotrop) and in Vanuatu. The plant material used was issued from the taro national collection of Vanuatu and from a series of full-sib crosses. Agro-morphological descriptors, as well as AFLP molecular markers, have allowed us to validate a method for stratifying taro germplasm collections. Several studies of genetic diversity, based on AFLP and SSR markers, have shown a stronger polymorphism as compared with previous isoenzyme results. The sources of diversity might originate from multiple introductions, from the accumulation of somatic mutations and from sexual reproduction, traditionally considered as very rare. Studies of family heritability and narrow sense heritability (estimated through the parents-offspring regression) have proven that the number of stolons and suckers, the corm shape and the dry matter content shared higher heritabilities than the yield or its components. This result, added to a high percentage of valuable hybrids within several families, highlights the importance of family selection in taro breeding programs. Finally, after building two weakly saturated genetic maps (containing each about 170 markers), one QTL explaining a large part of the phenotypic variance has been detected for the yield. Several other putative QTLs have been observed for traits related to vigour (corm dimensions, plant height and leaf dimensions). Furthermore, several markers were found closely linked to the yellow colour of the corm and a hypothesis concerning the existence of a major gene has been proposed
Rolland-Cabot, Romy. "Problèmes de santé publique en république de Vnuatu : aspects actuels de la pathologie sur l'île de Pentecôte." Montpellier 1, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991MON11137.
Full textBani, Philipson. "Caractérisation et suivi du dégazage des principaux édifices volcaniques actifs de l'arc insulaire du Vanuatu par télédetection." Nouvelle Calédonie, 2006. http://portail-documentaire.univ-nc.nc/files/public/bu/theses_unc/ThesePhilipsonBani2006.pdf.
Full textCayrol-Baudrillart, Françoise. "La céramique en Mélanésie du Sud, fonction ou statut ? : le cas des Naamboï de Maleluka, une approche ethno-archéologique." Paris 1, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA010585.
Full textAn ethno-archaeological approach to melanesian ceramic. A sociological analysis of the ceramic status of, starting from an ethnographical corpus examinated in the early XXth century by Bernard Deacon and concerning the south-werstern societies of Malekula (the Vanuatu archipelago). This study aims at defining the place given to ceremonial ceramics in the representations of Melanesian societies, in relation with the different values of these societies, and to understand what type of relations they maintained with these objects and the original funeral sites where fertility or fecondity rites took place. Completing this work is an analysis of different approaches to ceramics of oceania (notably of the lapita type), and a study of various rituals so-called "graded societies"
Sherkin, Samantha G. "Forever united : identity-construction across the rural-urban divide /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phs5523.pdf.
Full textBonnemaison, Joël. "Tanna : les hommes-lieux /." Bondy : Éd. de l'ORSTOM, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb34954786z.
Full textLanouguère-Bruneau, Virginie. "Le corps de l'igname et le sang de la noix de coco : le système social ancien de Mota Lava (îles Banks-Vanuatu)." Paris, EHESS, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002EHES0126.
Full textCalandra, Maëlle. "JARDINS DE TERRE, JARDINS DE MER À TONGOA (VANUATU) Une anthropologie de la nature domestique dans un milieu affecté par la catastrophe." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017EHES0165/document.
Full textBased on seventeen months of fieldwork carried out between 2013 and 2015 on Tongoa, an island in the archipelago of Vanuatu, the present PhD dissertation and its underlying reflection aim to study domesticated spaces, both on the ground and in the sea. This research explores and follows the logics of subsistence gardens, underlying the relationships cultivated both between islanders and these spaces, and between them and the non-human entities inhabiting their world. Such an approach helps underline how the land and the sea are conceptualised in a common frame of understanding, and shows how both spaces equally build up the way of living and thinking of those who create them and tap into their resources. The environment of the Man-Tongoa bears the weight of potential disasters, whose very contingency is an inescapable given of daily reality. The appropriated spaces are regularly shattered, sometimes even temporarily wrecked, by large-scale seismic or climatic events – as demonstrated by the cyclone Pam, which took place in March 2015. The ethnography of this event and the analysis of the various phenomena pertaining to the local category of disasta demonstrate how the notion of disaster is locally constructed, when “tradition”, Christian denominations, and NGOs offer non mutually intelligible or compatible explanations
Zielinski, Christelle. "Ecouter les volcans pour mieux les comprendre : volcans de la zone de subduction du Vanuatu." Paris 7, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA077110.
Full textAcoustic measurements can be a powerful tool to study volcanic eurptions. In the case of basaltic eruptions, the gas is continuously released at the magma free surface (passive degassing). It can also be released during explosive event, due to the bursting of an overpressure bubble of gas, which has been formed by coalescence of smaller bubbles in the magma chamber or in the conduit. This active degassing generates very energetic infrasonic signals whose waveform is remarkably simple and undistrubed during its atmospheric propagation. The first part of this thesis concerned the development of a program which automatically detects acoustic signal produced by basaltic eruptions, and calculates the associated gas volume. The principle is to follow from acoustic data the evolution of the amount of gas released bu the explosions, in order to constrain the dynamic of the magmatic reservoir. These methods were then used to study the almost permanent eruptive activity of two volcanoes in Vanuatu, Ambrym and Yasur. Acoustic monitoring of the active degassing of Ambryn, using date from a triangular network located at 3. 5 km from the active craters between 2008 and 2010, has enabled to study the superficial plumbing system and to provide an assumption concerning the geometry of the magma chamber. Acoustics recordings from a station located at 500 m from the active vents of Yasur volcano were also analyzed to accurately follow the fluctuations of gas volume released by Strombolian activity between 2009 and 2011
Servy, Alice. "« AIDS IS HERE! » Prévenir les infections sexuellement transmissibles à Port-Vila, Vanuatu." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris, EHESS, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017EHES0014.
Full textThis 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
Moreau, Yoann. "Catastrophes et mondes : disputes et trajectoires du sens des aléas majeurs." Paris, EHESS, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013EHES0516.
Full textThe word "catastrophe" refers to events that would be unequivocably harmful. Yet, this normative load correspoçnds only in part to the practical implications of events to which this term is applied. This shift reflects the pregnacy of a cultural form of catastrophism. The phenomena qualified as catastrophes appear as much more complex and ambivalent, so much so that they raise major social disputes and controversies. After a disaster, the legitimacy of the established paradigm of knowledge is challenged especially because its model for predicting and preventing has failed. This "critical period" allows us to observe which other paradigms of knowledge are present in the margins and "off screen" of the social field. The comparative analysis of different case studies (historical and ethnological) shows a divergence of interpretative paths but also brings to light the fundamental nature of the social dispute. Mobilizing two conceptual apparatuses - Augustin Berque's "mesology" and Philippe Descola's "grammar of cosmologies" - we propose interpretative categories (risk, constraint, resource, leisure) and explanatory classes (causes, motives, reasons, principles) that shape the dispute's framework. Then the dispute itself appears as an essential regulation of a "medial device"
Morgan, Michael G. "Politik is poison : the politics of memory among the Churches of Christ in northern Vanuatu /." View thesis entry in Australian Digital Theses Program, 2003. http://thesis.anu.edu.au/public/adt-ANU20060125.114315/index.html.
Full textBrothelande, Elodie. "Etude d'une résurgence active dans la caldera de Siwi (Tanna, Vanuatu) : le système Yenkahe-Yasur." Thesis, Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015CLF22571/document.
Full textResurgence, defined as the post-collapse uplift of the caldera floor, is widespread phenomenon worldwide but it is still poorly understood. This work is a multidisciplinary study of a resurgent dome: the Yenkahe dome, located inside the Siwi caldera, in Vanuatu. The relevance of this dome is multiple: firstly, resurgence is currently active, secondly it is fast, so the associated structures are well-preserved, and lastly, the Yenkahe dome presents the originality to be associated with a volcanic cone which has been permanently active for at least several hundred years: the Yasur volcano. A primary tectonic study based on field observations, satellite images and available low-resolution digital elevation models brought the evidence of a two-stage (at least) dome growth history. The first stage is a vertical growth that produced the longitudinal graben on top of the dome. It was followed, in the second stage, by an eastward displacement of the deformation source, generating an uplift of the eastern dome relative to the western dome. The Yenkahe structural map was then refined through the computation of a high-resolution photogrammetric digital surface model (DSM). Besides the great number of details allowing precise fault mapping, this DSM highlights the presence of numerous destabilization scars associated with the evolution of the dome. In the future, similar destabilization events may produce tsunamis reaching inhabited areas in a couple of minutes. The characteristics of the long-term deformation source of the Yenkahe dome, and of other resurgent domes with a similar morphology, were investigated by analogue modeling (intrusion of silicone putty in a sand-plaster mixture). The results of the study show the width of the graben created by an elongated intrusion source mostly depends on the depth of this source. The source of the Yenkahe dome, presumably a magmatic intrusion, would be approximately one-kilometer deep. A second study, based on a punching process in a numerically modeled elastoplastic medium, shows a different internal structure for the dome. However, it confirms the order of magnitude obtained for the source depth (1-2 km), making this result more robust. The presumed magmatic source may be connected to the Yasurvolcano, exhibiting an open conduit activity for several hundred years, which would imply an incremental growth governed by transient over-pressurizing events at depth (such as magma injections). Lastly, a panel of geophysical methods were carried out within the caldera (magnetics, gravimetry, electrical methods, etc.). They revealed that the post-collapse history of Siwi involved, not only resurgence tectonics, but also the emplacement of lava fields and of several volcanic edifices. They also demonstrate the presence of an extended hydrothermal system, particularly deep (more than 300 m) and active on the eastern side of the dome. The associated extended alteration may favor the destabilization of the resurgent edifice
Hassler, Malin. "Neotraditionalism-Examining the Role of Traditional Revival in Vanuatu." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, SV, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-20748.
Full textBolton, Lissant Mary. "Dancing in mats extending Kastom to women in Vanuatu." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.511185.
Full textCombettes, Claire. "Découvrir et occuper un archipel : dynamique des relations des premiers habitants au Vanuatu avec le milieu naturel : étude palynologique de dépôts holocènes." Thesis, Paris, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016MNHN0003/document.
Full textThe first settlers reached the Remote Oceania (east of the Solomon Islands) quite recently, around 3000 yr BP. There are several hypotheses concerning the causes of these migrations, and environmental changes have to be taken into account in the settlement proceeding. The arrival of populations on pristine islands has an influence on the native fauna and flora, but landscape responses to human impact vary for each site examined. The aims of this research are to describe the human influence on the environment since the first migrations, to discriminate the climate impact, which causes theses migrations and the landscape modification during the late Holocene; then, to characterize the human behaviour and adaptation on pristine island. To answer this problem, two palustrine cores, collected in Efate Island (central Vanuatu) were studied: the Emaotfer Swamp and the Otas Lake.I have mainly used pollen and micro-charcoal analyses to reconstruct the arboreal and herbaceous vegetation found around the sites. I have also conducted of past temperatures and rainfalls reconstructions thanks to density probability functions. At the climatic level, these analyses highlight a warm and wet period until 3700 cal yr BP. Then, a increase in magnitude and number of El Niño events caused a drier environment. Between 1950 and 750-600 cal yr BP, the results reveal a more humid climate, associated with the decrease in El Niño frequency and magnitude. The climatic variations recorded by the Otas Lake and the Emaotfer Swamp vegetation show a new dry period after 750-600 cal yr BP, corresponding to the Little Ice Age.Lapita people reached Efate Island ca. 3000 cal yr BP under frequent and sustained El Niño events. During this period, easterly winds stopped and favoured eastward sail. These results support the hypothesis of eastward migrations under low trade winds. The first settlers were seafarers and fishers-gatherers, they had little impact on the environment. A new population settled the Emaotfer Swamp from 1500-1300 cal yr BP, developed medicinal, ceremonial and food plants cultivations and has probably practiced slash and burn agriculture. This group lived under humid climate, also more suitable to the development of horticulture. Our results show the adaptive capacity of populations to new environmental and climatic constraints. The complementary of the pollen and micro-charcoal analyses deliver rather complete information on the palaeoenvironment, the Human-climate-vegetation relations and the emergence of the human impact. For future researches, it will be necessary to obtain more information on the pollen rain for a maximum of taxa, the ecological needs of plant species and the specific climate parameters for each island, to develop a robust model of past landscapes, climates and land-use (project LandCover6k)
Dyer, Jayne Elizabeth. "The nexus of language interaction and language acquisition in Vanuatu with the development of Bislama : the role and response of education." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09EDM/09edmd996.pdf.
Full textBradacs, Gesine. "Ethnobotanical survey and biological screening of medicinal plants from Vanuatu." kostenfrei, 2008. http://www.opus-bayern.de/uni-regensburg/volltexte/2008/1064/.
Full textEricsson, Lina. "The Ni-Vanuatu RSE-Worker : Earning, Spending, Saving, and Sending." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Political Science, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-9631.
Full textIn April 2007, New Zealand (NZ) launched the Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) scheme. The scheme allows for unskilled workers from the Pacific Islands to enjoy the benefits of seasonal work in NZ’s horticulture and viticulture industries for up to seven months at a time. One of the articulated objectives of the scheme is to advance the effects on development in the countries of origin of the workers, for which remittances have been stressed as key-benefits. Although previous data and interviews concerning these aspects are marginal, all studies indicate clear benefits for Pacific Islanders. In contrast, this study provides the novel insight to the individual views and perceptions of the earning, saving, spending and remittance possibilities of 23 Ni-Vanuatu RSE workers in June of 2008. The findings indicate an absence of autonomy among the individual RSE workers to decide over and manage the spending of their respective incomes, along with negative implications on the potential for workers to send remittances while working in NZ. Identified as the primary cause of this outcome, is the dual and simultaneous role that NZ based companies, on the one hand, can play as recruitment agents in Vanuatu, and on the other hand, as pastoral care agents in NZ. This twofold capacity creates a middle hand situation that severely restricts the possibilities for the workers to access their wages while in NZ. The conclusion therefore holds that, in this example of 23 Ni-Vanuatu RSE workers, the degree of remittances depends on the type of employment governing the participation of the workers in the scheme, as opposed to the individual spending and saving patterns, differences in earnings, or differences in the availability of work of each worker respectively.
I april 2007 så startade Nya Zeeland (NZ) sitt Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) program. Programmet tillåter lågutbildade arbetare från Söderhavsöarna att erhålla fördelaktigt säsongsarbete i NZ:s jordbruks industrier med upp till sju månader per arbetsperiod. Ett av de uttalade syftena med programmet är att avancera utvecklingen i arbetarnas hemländer, för vilket penningförsändelser från säsongsarbetet har lyfts fram som huvudsakliga förmåner. Trots att tidigare insamlad data och intervjuer som berör dessa delar av programmet är marginella, så har alla studier indikerat klara förmåner för säsongsarbetarna. Till skillnad från tidigare resultat, så påvisar denna studie nya insikter skildrade från ett perspektiv av 23 Ni-Vanuatu arbetare, och deras uppfattning om möjligheter till inkomst, sparande, och att kunna skicka penningförsändelser under en arbetsvistelse i juni 2008. Resultaten från studien pekar på en frånvaro av autonomi hos arbetarna att bestämma över hur deras inkomster skall spenderas, med negativa följder av att inte kunna skicka hem tillräckligt med pengar till sina anhöriga. Den identifierade primärorsaken till detta är framförallt den dubbelroll som NZ baserade företag, å ena sidan, kan spela som rekryterare av arbetskraft i Vanuatu, och å andra sidan, som förvaltare av arbetskraft i NZ. Denna dubbelroll skapar en mellanhandssituation som hindrar säsongsarbetarna från att tillgå sina inkomster under sin vistelse i NZ. Slutsatsen, i detta exempel av 23 Ni-Vanuatu arbetare, påvisar att nivån utav penningförsändelser beror på typ av anställningsform, istället för individuellt sparande eller spenderande av inkomster, skillnader i inkomst, eller skillnader i tillgängligt arbete för respektive arbetare.
Henri, Agnès. "Eléments de description d'une langue mélanésienne du Vanuatu, le sungwadia." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040183.
Full textThis PHD thesis consists in a description of Sun̄wadia, a melanesian language spoken in Maewo Island, Central-NorthVanuatu (South-Pacific). It is based on two fieldworks of three months each.This language exhibits, in a variable extension, some of the typical characters of the austronesian languages: it has a personal article, tends towards omnipredicativity; the argumental structure of the verb undergoes modifications via a few morphemes related to the applicative systems of languages that are situated higher in the genetic tree of the family. The language also has the typical pronominal system of austronesian languages.Sun̄wadia is a relatively conservative language, on the phonemic level at least, but its morphology appears to be quite eroded (there aren't any verbal conjugation, nor any nominal declension, nor any morphological marking of number on the noun). This thesis is organised in six parts. The first one studies phonemics, morphophonemics, and the morphological structure of the Sun̄wadia word, as well as sandhi phenomenon. The second part concerns the parts of speech and lays down some syntaxic grounds that will be useful to the rest of the study. The last four parts review the substantival syntagm, the functioning of predication (which is mostly built around serial verbs constructions); the temporal, spatial, and circumstantial reference, and, lastly, the global organisation of the clause. The thesis comes with a short excerpt of our oral corpus (a dozen of pages)
Johnson, Kay. "Static spatial expression in Ske : an Oceanic language of Vanuatu." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2014. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/18443/.
Full textde, Lannoy Jean. "Through the vale of darkness : history in South Malakula, Vanuatu." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:57eb5894-fe4c-440a-843f-fe195d4239d0.
Full textBaron, Jacopo. "Gardens of the Mind : a study on Vanuatu sand-drawing." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020EHES0168.
Full textThe present thesis deals with the sand-drawing (French: dessin sur sable; Bislama: sandroing) of Vanuatu, a Melanesian archipelago located in the south-western Pacific. Vanuatu sand-drawings – geometrical figures traced in the sand, very ingenious, and complex – were first systematically documented by British anthropologist Arthur Bernard Deacon in the 1920s. This ‘discovery’ generated great interest among important exponents of the discipline (including the great Alfred Cort Haddon) of the time. However, no dedicated study of these figures followed the first attempts at their interpretation. Over the years, sand drawing has been documented, mentioned in important publications and even proclaimed “Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity” by UNESCO in 2003, but in spite of this, it has never been the subject of a detailed analysis. This project aims at filling this gap, both in terms of empirical research and theoretical interpretation. In this context, this project has three main objectives. First, to understand and reconstruct the historical and epistemological reasons for this gap. Second, to try to reduce this gap through a renewed study of the practice based on the examination of a regional tradition. Third, to evaluate the consequences of this attempt in the light of recent developments in the field of anthropology of memory, and some classical issues in Melanesian ethnology. With respect to this last point, I refer in particular to the ‘semiotic opacity’ and the ‘quest for ephemeral’ which seem to characterize many traditional communication practices within this region.The definition of these three objectives led me to develop the project along three research axes. The thesis therefore consists of an archival research dedicated to the study of literature related to sand-drawing and the theoretical perspectives that informed its first analysis (Chapter 1), of an ethnographic research carried out in the western and northern regions of the island of Ambrym (Chapters 2, 3), and of an attempt to provide a new interpretation of the practice, based on studies on the history of writing, the anthropology of memory and Melanesian ethnology (Chapter 4).The set of chapters is preceded by an Introduction which deals with the ethnographic context and the methodology used, and is followed by Conclusions which sums up the results of the study. The thesis is closed by two Annexe. Annexe I consists of a catalogue of all the sand drawings I documented in Ambrym and Annexe II presents the research permit signed by the Vanuatu Cultural Centre
Chanteraud, Annabel R. "La saga du kava : du Vanuatu à la Nouvelle-Calédonie /." Bordeaux : Centre de recherche sur les espaces tropicaux, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38801567r.
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