Serge Tcherkézoff is Professor (em.) of anthropology, from EHESS, member in activity of the CREDO, the French Center for Pacific Studies (AMU-CNRS-EHESS), associated with Australian National University in Canberra (hon.) and University of French Polynesia in Papeete (adj). His works (>twelve books and >hundred articles) bring together the results of his field enquiries in Western Polynesia (Samoa) during the decades 1980–1990 and an ethno-historical critique of European inventions (16th-20th centuries) about Polynesia: mainly, 1) settlement and “races”, 2) biaised narratives of first encounters (the myth of the “Vahine”, the silence on the initial violence), 3) misunderstandings about political systems and hierarchies in Polynesian systems and 4) more recently, misunderstandings about “gender” relations (particularly regarding the “gender-variant” communities in the Pacific).
For recent publications, see https://www.serge-tcherkezoff.fr/-Publications-
And
https://www.pacific-credo.fr/index.php/fr/33-categorie-fr-fr/membres/serge-tcherkezoff/186-serge-tcherkezoff-publications
For past and current projects, see:
https://www.pacific-dialogues.fr/home.php
and
https://www.pacific-encounters.fr/home.php

Anthropology
History

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)
Pacific Islands Political Studies Association (PIPSA)
Société des Océanistes (SdO)

First and Early contacts