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Les recherches entreprises au cours de nombreuses missions organisées par le Centre d’expérimentation du Pacifique visaient principalement à améliorer nos connaissances des espèces animales et de la couverture végétale des îles des atolls de la Polynésie française. Les résultats de ces travaux ont été réunis ici avec simplicité, clarté et de nombreuses illustrations par les chercheurs eux-mêmes, à l’intention du grand public. Un guide précieux et maniable pour celui qui, de près ou de loin, s’intéresse à l’univers étrange, mais combien attrayant, de la Polynésie.

Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Ecology --- atoll --- écologie --- Polynésie --- histoire naturelle --- environnement

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Puluwat Atoll in Micronesia, with a population of only a few hundred proud seafaring people, can fulfill anyone's romantic daydream of the South Seas. Thomas Gladwin has written a beautiful and perceptive book which describes the complex navigational systems of the Puluwat natives, yet has done so principally to provide new insights into the effects of poverty in Western cultures. The cognitive system which enables the Puluwatans to sail their canoes without instruments over trackless expanses of the Pacific Ocean is sophisticated and complex, yet the Puluwat native would score low on a standardized intelligence test. The author relates this discrepancy between performance and measured abilities to the educational problems of disadvantaged children. He presents his arguments simply and clearly, with sensitive and detailed descriptions and many excellent illustrations. His book will appeal to anthropologists, psychologists, and sailing enthusiasts alike.

Cognitive styles --- Navigation --- Navigation. --- Styles, Cognitive --- Cognition --- Intellect --- Personality and cognition --- Navigation, Primitive --- Locomotion --- Orientation --- Nautical astronomy --- Naval art and science --- Pilots and pilotage --- Puluwat Atoll (Micronesia) --- Buluath (Micronesia) --- Cata (Micronesia) --- De Cata (Micronesia) --- Endābii-shotō (Micronesia) --- Enderby Islands (Micronesia) --- Kata Island (Micronesia : Atoll) --- Leguischel (Micronesia) --- Luguen (Micronesia) --- Mama (Micronesia) --- O Puluot (Micronesia) --- O Suak (Micronesia) --- Osuak (Micronesia) --- Poloac (Micronesia) --- Poloat Islands (Micronesia) --- Poloot Inseln (Micronesia) --- Polot (Micronesia) --- Polowat (Micronesia : Atoll) --- Polut (Micronesia) --- Poulouote (Micronesia) --- Pul (Micronesia) --- Puluhot (Micronesia) --- Puluot (Micronesia) --- Puluwat Group (Micronesia) --- Puluwat Islands (Micronesia) --- Uauak (Micronesia) --- Caroline Islands

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"While considerable research and on-ground project work focuses on the interface between Indigenous/local people and nature conservation in the Asia-Pacific region, the interface between these people and cultural heritage conservation has not received the same attention. This collection brings together papers on the current mechanisms in place in the region to conserve cultural heritage values. It will provide an overview of the extent to which local communities have been engaged in assessing the significance of this heritage and conserving it. It will address the extent to which management regimes have variously allowed, facilitated or obstructed continuing cultural engagement with heritage places and landscapes, and discuss the problems agencies experience with protection and management of cultural heritage places"--

Cultural property --- Historic preservation --- Protection --- Pacific Area --- Antiquities. --- Preservation, Historic --- Preservationism (Historic preservation) --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- Asia-Pacific Region --- Asian-Pacific Region --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Pacific Ocean Region --- Pacific Region --- Pacific Rim --- Property --- World Heritage areas --- cultural property--protection--pacific area --- historic preservation--pacific area --- Bikini Atoll --- Borobudur --- Fataluku language --- Terra Australis --- World Heritage Site