Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xv
4. Abbreviations xix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Kanak (Hi)stories
7. Chapter One. Origins and Orality 13
8. Chapter Two. Pathways and Interconnections1 32
9. Chapter Three. Cultural Initiation 51
10. Chapter Four. Transformations 63
11. Part II. Exploration and First Contact
12. Chapter Five. James Cook 87
13. Chapter Six. The Forsters 97
14. Chapter Seven. D’Entrecasteaux 104
15. Chapter Eight. La Billardière 110
16. Chapter Nine. Nineteenth-Century Perspectives 118
17. Part III. Early Texts
18. Chapter Ten. Colonial Representations of Kanak Culture 131
19. Chapter Eleven. Portraits of Colonial Society 151
20. Chapter Twelve. Living in the Bush 163
21. Chapter Thirteen. Women’s Lives 175
22. Chapter Fourteen. The Voice of the Other 181
23. Part IV. The Modern Period
24. Chapter Fifteen. From Colonial Regimes to Their Contestation (1870–1946) 195
25. Chapter Sixteen. Rewriting Colonial History 203
26. Chapter Seventeen. Kanak Rewriting of Colonial History 235
27. Chapter Eighteen. Recovering Custom 249
28. Chapter Nineteen. A Cultural Politics of Independence 272
29. Chapter Twenty. Critique of Custom 279
30. Chapter Twenty-one. Writing Together 299
31. Chapter Twenty-two. Métissage and Cultural Hybridity 323
32. References 371
33. About the Editors 387