ISBN:
9789057023064
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (377 p)
Series Statement:
Studies in Anthropology and History
Parallel Title:
Print version Across the Great Divide : Journeys in History and Anthropology
DDC:
305.8/00995
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Maps and Plates; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; PRELUDE Now Into Then: Disciplined Encounters; PART ONE Leadership; ONE Rank, Power, Authority: A Reassessment of Traditional Leadership in South Pacific Societies; TWO Ritual and Politics: The Inaugural Meeting of High Chiefs in New Caledonia; PART TWO Fighting; FOREWORD Apologia on Gender; THREE 'Almost Constantly at War'? Ethnographic Perspectives on Indigenous Fighting in New Caledonia; FOUR Reading Indigenous Pasts: The 'Wagap Affair' of 1862
Description / Table of Contents:
FIVE Winning and Losing? Reflections on the War of 1878-79 in New CaledoniaPART THREE Encountering Christianity; SIX Autonomous and Controlled Spirits: Indigenous Rituals and Encounters with Christianity in Melanesia; SEVEN Dealing (With) Death in a Melanesian World: Indigenous Aetiologies and the 'Sickness of the Christians'; EIGHT Power, Ritual and the Appropriation of God: Christianity and Subversion in Melanesia; FINALE Whig in the Closet: Past Continuous, Future Perfect?; ABBREVIATIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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