Nights of storytelling: a cultural history of Kanaky-New Caledonia
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I Kanak (Hi)stories -- Chapter One Origins and Orality -- The Myth of Teê Kanake -- The Beginning of the World -- The Story of Mount Mou and Mount Karikaté -- Chapter Two Pathways and Interconnections -- The Legend of Fire and the Lizard-God -- The Child Who Came Out of a Tree -- The Master of Koné -- Kaapo Ciinyii -- Dui Dupaan and the Daughter of the Great Ocean -- Chapter Three Cultural Initiation -- Blind Dancer -- The Child and His Grandmother -- Tädo-Tädo -- The Sparrowhawk and the Swallow -- Tibo and Her Child -- Chapter Four Transformations: The Dynamic Nature of Kanak Oral Traditions -- The Stockmen -- The Rat and the Octopus -- Bigne and Jola -- Idara, the Prophetess -- Caledonian Novel-Père Lambert -- Part II Exploration and First Contact -- Chapter Five James Cook: A Positive Account of Balade, New Caledonia, 1774 -- Cook's Arrival at Balade -- The Pig Incident -- Tools and Weapons -- Modesty of the Women -- Chapter Six The Forsters: Cook's Philosophers Abroad -- Description of Women -- Temperament of the People -- Women -- The Pig Incident -- Systems of Government -- Chapter Seven D'Entrecasteaux: A Negative Account of Balade, 1792 -- Seeking Information in the Footsteps of La Pérouse -- Assessment of the State of the People -- Leaving Balade -- Chapter Eight La Billardière: Observations of a French Naturalist -- Expedition's Progress -- Cannibalism -- Chief ly Authority -- Theft -- Chapter Nine Nineteenth-Century Perspectives -- Land and Land Ownership -- The Character of the New Caledonians -- Political Organisation -- Description of the People -- Ownership of Coconuts -- Part III Early Texts: Missionaries, Settlers, Convicts, and Kanak -- Chapter Ten Colonial Representations of Kanak Culture -- The Waterfall-Georges Baudoux.