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      Indigenous StudiesInternational LawIndigenous KnowledgeIntellectual Property Law
New Caledonia is characterized by cultural diversity, and human occupation of the territory is divided. A Melanesian, Kanak agrarian society (about 40% of the total population), and a largely urban society, of European and other origins... more
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      Political EcologyRegional developmentNew CaledoniaDesarrollo Regional
This study presents two experiments aimed at investigating tune-to-text alignment and pitch scaling in Lifou French, a variety spoken by bilingual speakers of French and Drehu. Descriptions of New Caledonian French have focussed on... more
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      Speech ProsodyFrench languageLaboratory/Experimental PhonologyProsody-Syntax
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      MammalogyNew CaledoniaBiological SciencesEnvironmental Sciences
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      Music HistoryAnthropologyEthnomusicologyNew Caledonia
La bioprospection peut être définie comme l’inventaire et l’évaluation des éléments constitutifs de la diversité biologique ou biodiversité d’un écosystème particulier. Cette démarche présente un intérêt scientifique certain pour la... more
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      EthicsIntellectual PropertyTraditional Ecological KnowledgePatents
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      GeologyGeochemistryX ray absorption spectroscopyNew Caledonia
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      Traditional Ecological KnowledgeNew CaledoniaBiopiracyTradional ecological knowledge
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      IndigeneityNew CaledoniaPostcolonialism in French societyMelanesia (Anthropology)
New Caledonian serpentine (ultramafic) soils contain high levels of toxic heavy metals, in particular nickel, (up to 20 g kg(-1)) and are deficient in essential elements like carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus while having a high... more
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      MicrobiologySoilPlant BiologyBiology
Three opisthomonorchiinae species are described from fishes obtained at the Fish Market in Nouméa, New Caledonia. Opisthomonorchis dinema n. sp. from Carangoides dinema Bleeker differs from the other recognised species in the genus by the... more
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      ParasitologySystematics (Taxonomy)BiodiversityNew Caledonia
France’s decision to introduce penal transportation in 1854 at precisely the moment that Britain was winding it back is a striking and curious fact of history. While the Australian experiment of penal colonization was not considered a... more
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      French HistoryCriminal Justice HistoryPenologyAustralian History
The Pacific year has closed with growing tensions over sovereignty and self-determination issues and growing stress over the ravages of covid-19 pandemic in a region that was largely virus-free in 2020. Just two days before the year 2021... more
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      JournalismSoutheast Asian StudiesPacific Island StudiesHuman Rights
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      ZoologyNew CaledoniaVideo SurveillanceDigital Video
This book is a tribute to the remarkable architectural heritage of present-day New Caledonia. With more than 200 pages and 400 photogaphs, it features the successive architectural styles which have spanned the first century of French... more
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      Architectural HistoryNew CaledoniaPacific HistoryColonial Architecture
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      Local Government and Local DevelopmentNew CaledoniaDecolonizationNickel Mining
I will always take on an ARTventure. Just give me the challenge and a goal to reach and I’ll be off to any destination in Melanesia, or remote Aboriginal communities in Australia, or even travel to tribal areas of Taiwan. Each curatorial... more
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      Cultural StudiesIndigenous StudiesPacific Island StudiesMelanesia (Pacific Islands art)
Kanak youth (“Jeunesse Kanak”) today are constantly targeted by segregation measures, resulting in their social, physical and political marginalization. They are also the focus for a range of rhetorical discourses that create a degrading... more
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      Youth CultureBorder CrossingNew CaledoniaCultural Anthropology
This short article is part of a special issue of the french heritage journal "monumental", dedicated to the "patrimoine de l'enfermement", the "heritage of incarceration". It concludes a chapter, p. 52-78, focusing on the french colonial... more
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      Pacific Island StudiesContemporary ArchaeologyNew CaledoniaConvict Transportation
The hypothesis here is that this customary jurisdiction, less visible than customary state institutions such as the Customary Senate, has a crucial role in making law and in shaping or modifying custom; such a role is at least as... more
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      Case Study ResearchCustomary LawNew CaledoniaLegal Reasoning
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      BiasNew CaledoniaBiological SciencesEnvironmental Sciences
New-Caledonian archaeology mainly started to focus on the last millennium of the pre-European chronology with the creation of the Archaeology Department of New Caledonia, in the early 1990’s. A series of fieldworks specifically... more
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      New CaledoniaOceania (Anthropology)Pacific Archaeology
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      AnthropologyIndigenous StudiesPacific Island StudiesPolitical Anthropology
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      Social constructionNew Caledonia
This paper discusses two private houses built by New Hebrides planter Jean Marot dit My, one on Santo Island, northern Vanuatu, and another in Nouméa, New Caledonia. The former is relatively well known in Vanuatu, as it is assumed to be... more
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      American LiteratureHistorical ArchaeologyArchitecture20th Century American Literature
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      Evolutionary BiologyGeneticsZoologyGeography
Between 1860 and 1920, a creole language, Tayo, emerged as the community language of Saint-Louis a former Marist mission in southern New Caledonia. This article briefly introduces the demographic history of Saint-Louis and the arrival of... more
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      French HistoryLanguages and LinguisticsHistorical LinguisticsFrench Studies
This thesis attempts to provide a conceptual framework for the analysis of the politicisation of ethnicity in Fiji and New Caledonia. Commencing with a discussion of the relevance of various theoretical approaches to ethnic... more
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      Indigenous StudiesPolitical ViolenceEthnic ConflictNew Caledonia
À partir d’un travail d’enquête anthropologique mené à un niveau microsocial, cette thèse étudie la vie politique de l’île d’Ouvéa (Nouvelle-Calédonie) que l’on peut comparer à un chantier permanent. S’appuyant sur quatre études de cas... more
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      Power (social)Political AnthropologyNew CaledoniaMelanesia (Anthropology)
This Article will focus on the complex relationship between custom and Customary Law, through the example of New-Caledonia. Indeed, this French overseas territory has a unique sui generis status with regard to the French Constitution and... more
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      Legal PluralismCustomary LawNew Caledonia
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      ReligionChristianityHistorySociology
New Caledonia is one of the world’s smallest hotspots for biodiversity, yet it is extremely diverse and, like the other remnants of the ancient super-continent Gondwanaland, supports high levels of endemism. This rich biodiversity and... more
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      New CaledoniaHeavy metalsMetal HyperaccumulatorsSeeds
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      French HistoryResearch Methods and MethodologyFrench StudiesResearch Methodology
Abstract The sugar crisis of 1860 in Reunion motivated the migration of thousands of Réunionnais to New Caledonia. Along with sugar planters, wealthy enough to transport their production equipment as well as their indentured workers,... more
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      French HistoryFrench StudiesSocial IdentityPacific Island Studies
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      Postcolonial StudiesNationalismProtestantismNational Identity
Le VIH/sida, en tant que crise éminemment globale, constitue de plus en plus un dénominateur commun de la vie sociale des populations. Bien que l’incidence de l’infection par le virus demeure à ce jour relativement faible en... more
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      Medical AnthropologyHIV and AIDS educationHIV/AIDSGlobal Health
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      Indigenous StudiesPacific Island StudiesPostcolonial StudiesLeadership
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      New CaledoniaNouvelle-CalédonieMelanesian studiesFoncier
Dans un contexte de raréfaction des ressources en énergie fossile et de changements climatiques, la Nouvelle-Calédonie, qui n'est pas actuellement soumise au protocole de Kyoto, doit répondre aux préoccupations environnementales et... more
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      Comparative LawLegal PluralismFrench LawNew Caledonia
Sur la Grande -Terre de Nouvelle-Calédonie, les anciennes décharges minières et les sols mis à nus par les exploitations ont largement contribué, et contribuent encore, à alimenter en débris rocheux (charge solide) les cours d’eau, au... more
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      Environmental RemediationMiningNew CaledoniaFlooding
Sur la Grande-Terre de Nouvelle-Calédonie, les anciennes décharges minières et les sols mis à nus par les exploitations ont largement contribué, et contribuent encore, à alimenter en débris rocheux (charge solide) les cours d’eau, au... more
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      Environmental RemediationPopulation DynamicsNew CaledoniaBest practices guidelines
The ancient migrations settling the South Pacific remain poorly understood. This is particularly so when the New Caledonia sequence is considered and where perhaps the greatest archaeological mystery of the region awaits resolution.... more
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      New CaledoniaTumuliThe Isle of PinesSouth Pacific pre-History
The National Musuem of Ireland, Dublin, holds over 200 objects which may have been collected on the second and third voyages of Captain James Cook. These were given by Surgeon James Patten and Captain James King, and two recently... more
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      HistoryAnthropologyMuseum StudiesEthnography
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      ReligionEthnic StudiesLatin American StudiesIndigenous Studies
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      EthicsArtConservationNew Caledonia
L’exploitation minière induit des activités économiques qui sont pour partie prises en charge par des acteurs locaux. En Nouvelle-Calédonie, cette opportunité a étésaisie depuis une trentaine d’années par les populations kanak qui ont... more
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      New CaledoniaSubcontractingNickel MiningMining Policy and Governance Issues
Chapter from: "Ethnologues en situations coloniales", sous la direction de Christine Laurière et André Mary , Les Carnets de Bérose, 11
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      AnthropologyEthnographyPacific Island StudiesColonialism
Recent deep‐sea explorations in the South Pacific have documented around New Caledonia the most diverse fauna of gastropods of the family Volutomitridae anywhere in the world. Fourteen species (nine new, two remaining unnamed) are... more
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      New CaledoniaBiological SciencesAnatomySpatial Heterogeneity
Nationalism in the South Pacific island state of New Caledonia (Nouvelle Calédonie) has evolved into three distinct forms: First, the ethnonationalism of the indigenous Kanak population is aimed at establishing a completely independent... more
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      Indigenous StudiesPolitical ViolenceEthnic ConflictNew Caledonia