Ciné-Fȇte - Wallis and Futuna - the Republic, the Church and Custom

Wallis and Futuna - the Republic, the Church and Custom

Episode of : Traces of Empires +
Product code : A95-S01-07
Category(ies) : Contemporary History +, Modern History +, Geopolitics +, Oceania +
Level(s) : Sec. (ages 14-17) +, Post-Sec. (18 +) +
Duration : 26 min.
Production year : 2005
Director(s) : Jimmy Leipold
Producer(s) : CNDP
Version(s) : French +

Description

Situated opposite American Samoa, the Wallis and Futuna archipelago is a French territory where Polynesian, Asiatic, Melanesian peoples and several hundred Metropolitan French all live. The gulf between these different communities is huge, on the cultural as well as the social or jurisdictional level.