Terre Kanak
article 1992 Bensa, Alban

KanakOceania > Melanesia
This is a study of traditional Kanak communal land rights, and how they affect post-colonial struggles around land policies and reforms....

The political order and corporal coercion in Kanak societies of the past (New Caledonia)
article 1997 Bensa, Alban & Goromido, Antoine

KanakOceania > Melanesia
This historical study discusses the precolonial relationship between chiefly authority, external warfare, and cannibalism. Cannibalism was a form of human sacrifice that validated chiefly authority and a hierarchical political system constituted by r...