Prochain séminaire FRAO – Geoffrey White : Eglise et Etat dans le contexte post-conflit aux îles Salomon, 23 mai 15h, EHESS Paris
Formation à la Recherche dans l’Aire Océanienne
Geoffrey White (anthropologue, University of Hawai’i at Manoa) interviendra sur le thème suivant :
“Thinking through Church and State in Post-Conflict Solomon Islands”
Research on the cultural underpinnings of local politics in Melanesia has frequently noted the importance of three influential institutions in local society: kastom (“custom”), church, and government. In Solomon Islands, which was labeled a “failed state” in the early 2000s, traditional “chiefs” have taken on renewed importance for efforts to rebuild structures of governance from the grassroots. In the island of Santa Isabel, the Anglican Church of Melanesia has played a particularly active role in empowering an island-wide Paramount Chief and creating a Council of Chiefs to represent traditional leadership in a “tripod” of kastom, church and state. This paper reflects on recent efforts to sustain this distinctive conjunction of power in post-conflict Solomon Islands.
Programme :
- 30 mai 2013 – Haidy Geismar, anthropologue, Lecturer University College London, Treasured Possessions : Thinking about Intellectual and Cultural Property in Vanuatu and New Zealand
- 6 juin 2013 – Bastien Bosa, anthropologue, Prof. associé, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Présentation de l’ouvrage Aborigènes. Histoire des relations raciales dans le Sud-Est australien, Paris, Ed. Karthala, 2012
Réseau Peuples Autochtones 