Research themes

CREDO

This page sets out the various aspects of the CREDO according to the four-year and five-year periods. In all cases CREDO is in line with its two other missions

Five-yearly 2024-2025

Over the next five years, the scientific project of the CREDO will focus on the following three themes:

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Multidisciplinary approaches to contemporary politics in the Pacific. Sovereignties, political constructions and cultural connectio

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Gender, ritual and kinship in Oceania: anthropology and regional history

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Thinking about forms of human - non-human cohabitation, co-evolution and co-construction

Five-yearly 2017-2013

During this five-year period, the CREDO will focus on four areas:

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Emergences: innovation and creativity in the Pacific

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Making worlds: knowledge, perceptions, material practices and relationships

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Did you say democracy? History and anthropology

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Sovereignty and radicalism: globalised imaginaries and local constructions

Five-yearly 2010-2016

CREDO's scientific project is based on three themes centred on Oceanian societies:

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Under the first theme, we studied the political and identity constructs and religious dynamics of Oceanian societies.
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Under the first theme, we studied the political and identity constructs and religious dynamics of Oceanian societies.
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The second theme focused on local knowledge in various fields (representations of the individual and kinship, interactions with the environment, rituals, etc.).
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The second theme focused on local knowledge in various fields (representations of the individual and kinship, interactions with the environment, rituals, etc.).
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The third theme, which examined the principles of the accumulation and classification of scientific knowledge, developed epistemological and technological reflections.
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The third theme, which examined the principles of the accumulation and classification of scientific knowledge, developed epistemological and technological reflections.