Espace géographique et identité culturelle en Vanuatu (ex Nouvelles-Hébrides)

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Abstract
As is well known, political events disturbed the archipelago of Vanuatu's accession to indepen- dence. Apart from immediate causes there are — as much in the archipelago's past and the nature of its physical aspect as in its culture — deep causes which made this crisis practically unavoidable. The "disjointed" history of the condominium, the rivalties opposing the various Christian missions which shared the archipelago and also the persistence of a traditional culture accepting with difficulty the centralised vision of space which is that of the modern states, have made, and still make, unity of the young state difficult. Vanuatu is looking for its cultural identity : will the synthesis between traditional culture and modernity be possible? Will present tensions and conflicts give birth to a new fecundity?

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