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Serge   Tcherkézoff

Professor emeritus
CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie and ANU CAP CHL
Aix Marseille Uni+CNRS+EHESS--Australian Nat Uni (France)
Website(s):
[ http://www.pacific-dialogues.fr ]
[ http://www.pacific-credo.fr/index.php/fr/9-categorie-fr-fr/55-serge-tcherkezoff ]
[ https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/tcherkezoff-s ]


About
Pr.Anthrop./Pac.Studies:EHESS(emeritus);ANU(Hon.) program facilitating linkages between francophone and anglophone researchers in the Pacific . Books bring together fieldwork in Samoa (1980-1990s)(FaaSamoa, une identité polynésienne [2003]) with ethno-historical critique of European narratives about:
Early Encounters in Polynesia (First Contacts in Polynesia: the Samoan Case [2008], co-ed Oceanic Encounters: Exchange, Desire, Violence [2009 ANU Press); Tahiti 1768: la face cachée des premiers contacts [2010 Papeete AVDI], co-ed A la croisée des vagues: violence... premières rencontres [2022 Papeete,MSH-P Press];
about the Western Invention of regional-racial divisions within the Pacific : Polynésie/Mélanésie: l'invention française des races et des régions de l'Océanie [2008 Papeete AVDI].
Recently: a study of gift giving in historical Samoa together with a reconsideration of the Maussian Essay on the gift : Marcel Mauss à Samoa,le holisme méthodologique et l’esprit du don polynésien [2016, Marseille PCP]
Gender studies : gender and transgender in Polynesia : Mead, Freeman et Samoa [2001 Paris PUF], chapt. in Besnier and Alexeyeff eds. Gender on the Edge (UH Press 2014), in Journal of Samoan Studies «The Samoan Village, the Brother-Sister Relationship and the Rule of Exogamy» (2017); book about Tahiti, Hawaii, Samoa: Vous avez dit "3e sexe"? Les transgenres polynésiens et le mythe de l'homosexualité [2022 Papeete AVDI].
Discipline(s)
Anthropology
History
Member of
e-toile Pacifique (e-toile)
Australian Association for Pacific Studies (AAPS)
Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO)
Pacific History Association (PHA)
() European Society for Oceanists (ESfO)
New Zealand Studies Association (NZSA)
Geographic administrative areas
Historical periods
First and Early contacts
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