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Notes d'ethnologie néo-calédonienneBook 1930 • Leenhardt, Maurice
Kanak • Oceania > Melanesia
The author was a French missionary who lived in New Caledonia for twenty-four years, spending the most time among the Ajië, in Houaïlou and Canala. The volume focuses on clans, feasting, gifting, ghosts, ancestral spirits, magic, and virtue....Do kamoBook 1979 • Leenhardt, Maurice
Kanak • Oceania > Melanesia
This classic work on Kanak mentality describes it as "mythic". The many dimensions of this mentality include its relationship to the body, emotions, space, time, language, names, kinship, chieftainship, ancestor worship, and totemism. The process of ...