Guillaud Dominique auteur aut IRD Dussy D. auteur aut IRD Forestier H. auteur aut IRD text bookSection fre text/pdf reformatted digital access The contribution of three scientific approaches shows how the Kanak of New Caledonia refer to mythical or apparently historical arguments to assert their present social and political organisations, and try to strengthen their legitimacy in their claiming of land rights or in their territoriality. This "territorial imperative" explains why some elements of precolonial culture, notably when they have been researched, are used as references for today's "tradition" while others, entailing no land-based implications, are more or less obliterated. (Résumé d'auteur) specialized ORGANISATION DE L'ESPACE SYSTEME POLITIQUE MYTHE INTERPRETATION DES REPRESENTATIONS PERIODE PRECOLONIALE HISTOIRE COLONIALE TOPONYMIE TRADITION STRATEGIE DE RECHERCHE NOUVELLE CALEDONIE TANNA 106ANTHRO1 Guillaud Dominique ed. edt IRD Seysset M. ed. edt IRD Walter Annie ed. edt IRD 701-707 Paris (FRA) ORSTOM Paris PRODIG 1998 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010017389 2-7099-1424-7;2-2901560-35-0 [F A010017293] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010017389 https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers4/010017389.pdf IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 1999-03-01 2007-08-08 fdi:010017389 fre