Abstract
Rank, power, authority - a reassessment of traditional leadership in South Pacific societies ritual and politics - the inaugural meeting of High Chiefs in New Caledonia almost constantly war? ethnographic perspectives on indigenous fighting in New Caledonia reading indigenous pasts - the Wagap Affair of 1862 winning and losing? reflections on the War of 1878-79 in New Caledonia autonomous and controlled spirits - indigenous rituals and encounters with Christianity in Melanesia dealing (with) death in a Melanesian world - aetiologies and the sickness of Christians power, ritual and the appropriation of God - christianity and subversion in Melanesia whig in the closet - past continuous, future perfect?
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