INTRODUCTION: The cargo will not come

The French reader was the initial target of this introduction. He usually knows little about the South Pacific cultures. For instance, while he has had more than one occasion to see pictures of ‘Tahiti’ or ‘Easter Island’ in eastern Polynesia, he knows almost nothing about the political, social and...

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Hauptverfasser:	Serge Tcherkézoff, Françoise Douaire-Marsaudon
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Anthropology Applied anthropology Applied sciences Behavioral sciences Christian philosophy Christianity Commercial transportation Cultural anthropology Cultural groups Cultural identity Cultural studies Democracy Engineering Ethnography Ethnology Freight Freight transport Government Group identity Millenialism Pacific studies Political debate Political processes Political regimes Political science Political systems Politics Polynesian culture Polynesian studies Psychology Regional identity Religion Social psychology Spiritual belief systems Transportation
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Zusammenfassung:	The French reader was the initial target of this introduction. He usually knows little about the South Pacific cultures. For instance, while he has had more than one occasion to see pictures of ‘Tahiti’ or ‘Easter Island’ in eastern Polynesia, he knows almost nothing about the political, social and cultural realities of the western half of the region. With the exception of the two islands of Wallis and Futuna, this part of the Pacific has no French territories; instead, there are a variety of small independent States which have kept their own Polynesian tongue as the official language. The present