Christophe Sand

Christophe Sand is Director of the Institute of Archaeology of New Caledonia and the Pacific.

His interest has mainly focused on prehistory, traditional society, and the colonial history of the archipelago and West Pacific. He works on the mechanisms of appropriation of the past in processes to build contemporary identities and the development of traditional commons. In this context, he has studied the Pacific Islands as a collective structuring of space and joint organizations.