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Emmanuel Vigneron, « L’au-delà ici-bas : la mort en Polynésie orientale », Mappemonde (documents), ID : 10.3406/mappe.1987.2387
Polynesian history shows spaces populated by death and the dead. Diaries from travellers of the XVIIIth and XIXth century as well as narratives from missionaries give keys on how to reach a hereafter visible for all. Today’s French Polynesia engaged in a process of modernity not enterely under control is still deeply marked by its history.