Oceania Research and Documentation Center
Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, CREDO, MARSEILLE, FRANCE
CREDO
CREDO is a specialized research and documentation center on south pacific societies in the field of social and cultural anthropology, history, archeology, etnomusicology and ethnolinguistics.
The laboratory brings together staff from three institutions: CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) and the University of Aix-Marseille (AMU). CREDO CREDO members teach and supervise students at the Université d'Aix-Marseille and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Marseille.
Upcoming sessions of
Credo Seminar
Upcoming event
Scientific mediation
Upcoming
Members' outside involvement
Awards
Melissa Kodituwakku (Doctoral student CREDO - EHESS) won Jury's “coup de coeur” award
Melissa Kodituwakku won the Jury's Favourite prize in the INSHS photo competition with her photograph ‘Transmettre les gestes, 150 ans après l'oubli’ (‘Transmettre les gestes, 150 ans après l’oubli’).
Transmettre les gestes, 150 ans après l’oubli
Virginie Bernard won the Jacqueline Bardolph Award
The Jacqueline Bardolph Prize is awarded every two years by the Commonwealth Studies Society to the best thesis defended in France in the field of postcolonial studies.
Virginie Bernard was awarded 2nd prize by the 2021 jury for her thesis ‘Quand l'État se mêle de la “tradition” : La lutte des Noongars du Sud-Ouest australien pour leur reconnaissance’ defended under the supervision of Laurent Dousset in June 2018.
Further information
Alice Fromonteil is the winner of the 2020 Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac Museum Thesis Prize, for her thesis "L’art de raconter à ‘Uvea (Wallis, Polynésie occidentale). Une topologie narrative", defended at Aix-Marseille University under the joint supervision of Pascale Bonnemère and Sophie Chave-Dartoen in 2019
Scientific publications
- Pascale Bonnemère. Une femme voit des ennemis remonter la rivière, la nuit… ou comment les récits du passé des Ankave (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) remontent à la surface. Valentina Vapnarsky; Philippe Erikson; Marie Chosson; Emmanuel de Vienne. Orée du jour, lisières de la nuit.. Variations en anthropologie (&) linguistique offertes à Aurore Monod-Becquelin, Société d'ethnologie, pp.235-248, 2025, Recherches américaines, 978-2-36519-080-0. ⟨halshs-05095534⟩
- Mark Collins, Clara Lord, John Aini, Marion I. Mennesson, Iris Portoleau, et al.. Riranga: Amphidromous Sicyopterus spp. whitebait on Lavongai Island (Papua New Guinea). Cybium : Revue Internationale d’Ichtyologie, In press, ⟨10.26028/CYBIUM/2025-009⟩. ⟨hal-05064415⟩
- Matthew Graves. Australia’s “Moment of Truth” and the Burden of Historical Proof. Représentations dans le monde anglophone, 2024, 28, ⟨10.35562/rma.1069⟩. ⟨hal-04933784⟩
- Serge Tcherkézoff. Gender Minorities and Unequal Freedoms in Polynesia. Pacific Dynamics : Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, 2024, special issue, ⟨10.26021/15612⟩. ⟨hal-04913251⟩
- Matthew Graves. Australia’s ‘Global Memory Footprint’ Revisited. Postcolonial Cultures : Studies and Essays, 2024, 3. ⟨hal-04933746⟩
- Marc Tabani. Tanna Vanuatu. World of Wonders Publications. 2024, 978-9-8291-2506-4. ⟨hal-05027865⟩
