Abstract
This paper is a detailed review of the contents of a Ph.D. which has been defended publicly at the University of New Caledonia in 2015 and attracted a very large audience, as it presented the various customary gifts of traditional "money" that are required in all life-cycle rituals and showed how Kanak groups or "chiefdoms" are simultaneously living within all the contemporary modern political-economical requirements and following the "traditional" social obligations, which all together constitute these group, in each case, as a "society" in the Durheimian-Maussian sense.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 376-380 |
Journal | Journal of the Societe des Oceanistes (Journal de la societe des oceanistes/Journal societe des oceanistes) |
Volume | 141 |
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Publication status | Published - 2017 |