Rāhui in French Polynesia — Tamatoa Bambridge

Object of the lecture

Title: Rāhui in Polynesia today

A sign of an unprecedented resurgence, rāhui has developed across Polynesia — as throughout the Pacific — with an intensity and scale unseen since the 19th century. This presentation shares several examples of this contemporary dynamic.

Speaker

Tamatoa Bambridge, CNRS research director, specialist in legal anthropology, works at CRIOBE (Moʻorea, French Polynesia), a marine biology laboratory affiliated with EPHE, UPVD and the CNRS. His research focuses on the governance of island territories and community resilience in the face of legal pluralism, in particular through rāhui. Author of The Rāhui (ANU Press, 2016), he chairs the scientific committee of the Rāhui Center, supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies.