War and other means : violence and power in Houaïlou (New Caledonia) /

Show other versions (2)

War and Other Means describes and analyses the practices of war, the 'objects of war' and the conventions of the use of violence in Houaïlou, New Caledonia. It focuses on the colonial repression conducted in 1856 and after, the anti-sorcerer hunt in 1955, the independence mobilisation in...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Naepels, Michel (Author)
Corporate Author: Australian National University Press
Other Authors: Gomme, Rachel (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Canberra : ANU Press, 2017.
Series:State, society and governance in Melanesia (Series)
Subjects:
Political violence > New Caledonia > Houaïlou.
Violence > New Caledonia > Houaïlou.
Kanak (New Caledonian people)
Kanak (New Caledonian people) > Politics and government.
Kanak (New Caledonian people) > Government relations.
Minorities > Government policy > New Caledonia > Houaïlou.
Canaques (Peuple de Nouvelle-Calédonie)
Canaques (Peuple de Nouvelle-Calédonie) > Relations avec l'État.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
Politics and government
Ethnic relations
Kanak (New Caledonian people) > Government relations
Kanak (New Caledonian people) > Politics and government
Minorities > Government policy
Political violence
Violence
Houaïlou (New Caledonia) > Ethnic relations.
Houaïlou (New Caledonia) > Politics and government.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Lineage rivalry and colonial control: the dynamics of war in a globalised space
  • Objects of war
  • The chiefdoms within the colonial order
  • Post-indigénat mobilisations
  • The subjectivity of violent action
  • The construction and fiction of consensus.

Similar Items