Herrenschmidt J.B. auteur aut IRD text bookSection fre text/pdf reformatted digital access In Melanesia, development projects are not really sustainable on customary lands. The strategies of private promoters go, in fact, far beyond just their economic strategies, and the spatial study of their project often allows a thorough reading of their actual intentions and motives. Their cultural representations seem thus to have quite an important part to play in the "action system" they build, to develop their project. The promoters indeed tend to think of their project as an immanent social action for strengthening the definition of their social and individual identity in traditional structures, and they equate its implementation with a deeper attachment to land, which corresponds more to a transcendental desire. (Résumé d'auteur) specialized FONCIER COUTUMIER MILIEU RURAL VERGER EGLISE CLAN TERRITOIRE STRUCTURE SPATIALE RAPPORTS SOCIAUX CHEFFERIE PROMOTION IMMOBILIERE SOCIETE TRADITIONNELLE INNOVATION GEOGRAPHIE CULTURELLE MELANESIE 106ANTHRO1 Guillaud Dominique ed. edt IRD Seysset M. ed. edt IRD Walter Annie ed. edt IRD 513-520 Paris (FRA) ORSTOM Paris PRODIG 1998 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010017363 2-7099-1424-7;2-2901560-35-0 [F A010017293] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010017363 https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers4/010017363.pdf IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 1999-03-01 2007-08-08 fdi:010017363 fre