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