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War and Other Means : Violence and Power in Houaïlou (New Caledonia).

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: State, Society and Governance in Melanesia SeriesPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (334 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781760461546
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: War and Other MeansDDC classification:
  • 303.6
LOC classification:
  • JC328.6 .N347 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Lineage Rivalry and Colonial Control: The Dynamics of War in a Globalised Space -- 2. Objects of War -- 3. The Chiefdoms within the Colonial Order -- 4. Post-indigénat Mobilisations -- 5. The Subjectivity of Violent Action -- 6. The Construction and Fiction of Consensus -- Conclusion -- References.
Summary: '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 the 1980s and the village feuds in the 2000s.
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Intro -- List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Lineage Rivalry and Colonial Control: The Dynamics of War in a Globalised Space -- 2. Objects of War -- 3. The Chiefdoms within the Colonial Order -- 4. Post-indigénat Mobilisations -- 5. The Subjectivity of Violent Action -- 6. The Construction and Fiction of Consensus -- Conclusion -- References.

'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 the 1980s and the village feuds in the 2000s.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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