Do Kamo, de Maurice Leenhardt, relu en 1986.

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Maurice Leenhardt' s masterful theoretical study, « Do Kamo », published in 1947, was written from the verbatim transcript of a 1945 course of lectures given at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, 5th Section, Paris. Forty years later this study is confronted here with an attempted analysis of the contents of the data upon which the book is based, and with a description of the situation then prevailing in New Caledonia. Maurice Leenhardt was considered by the settlers as their enemy, but by the Melanesians as the man who brought them new techniques of peaceful resistance, through a church organization the colonial authorities could not afford to disregard. Reading anew this book, in 1986, chapter by chapter, brings in new data and puts the accent on the ideas which have held their ground and on some which have become open to doubt. The author, whose introduction to the Melanesian field was by Maurice Leenhardt himself, has had the privilege to work with nearly all the latter' s Melanesian students and helpers and has accumulated today almost forty years of personal experience of New Caledonia, the Loyalty islands and Vanuatu.

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