Serge Tcherkézoff
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Professor of anthropology (Directeur d'Etudes)
Institution: EHESS Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
(Institute of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Ministry of Research and Education, Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, Marseille)
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Maison Asie Pacifique
Université de Provence
3, place Victor Hugo
13003 Marseille - FRANCE
land line : 33(0)4 13 55 07 32
Research:
Polynesia (anthropology, ethnohistoy)
Historical critique of European visions applied to the Pacific, Oceania... and to their subdivisions ("Melanesia", "Polynesia"...).
Reconsideration of European narratives on first and early encounters with Polynesians: when Polynesians discovered the Papalagi, Popaa, Haole, Pakeha...
History of holist theories in French social anthropology
Education:
Thèse / Ph. D., EHESS, 1981 on some African sacred kingship precolonial systems (Nyamwezi-Sukuma)
Member of EHESS since 1979
Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury, since 2002
2004-2006: ARC International Fellow, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Gender Relations Centre, Australian National University
Fieldwork:
Samoa (Polynésie occidentale): since 1981