'Almost constantly at war'? An ethnographic perspective on fighting in New Caledonia

B Douglas - The Journal of Pacific History, 1990 - Taylor & Francis
THIS PAPER IS ABOUT FIGHTING IN NEW CALEDONIA, BETWEEN MELANESIANS AND
between Melanesians and foreigners. It occurred regularly before 1880, intermittently until …

Winning and losing? Reflections on the war of 1878–79 in new caledoni

B Douglas - The Journal of Pacific History, 1991 - Taylor & Francis
MELANESIAN FIGHTING IN NEW CALEDONIA WAS PERVADED BY VALUES OF
RECIPROCITY, equivalence and restraint; in colonial contexts, fighting included …