While the actors of cultural renaissances in French Polynesia do not hesitate to mobilize historical, archeological or anthropological research work as means of knowing the precolonial past, the scientific field, especially the French-speaking researchers, continue to overlook and discredit this cultural enunciation. The historicity of the practices and the aims pursued within the framework of these renaissances are thus questioned, revealing the still decisive influence of a theory that has nevertheless been undermined elsewhere in the Pacific: the invention of tradition.
Volume: 7 | 2023 - Identity versus science? Science at the service of identity?
Section: Articles
Published on: May 10, 2023
Accepted on: May 10, 2023
Submitted on: May 10, 2023
Keywords: cultural enunciation,cultural renaissances,cultural geography,epistemic oppression,decolonial studies,epistemic hospitality,scientific authority,énonciation culturelle,renaissances culturelles,géographie culturelle,oppression épistémique,études décoloniales,réception,hospitalité épistémique,autorité scientifique,[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences,[SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology,[SHS.HISPHILSO]Humanities and Social Sciences/History, Philosophy and Sociology of Sciences