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Sixth Conference of the
European Society for Oceanists (ESfO)
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Pacific Challenges: Questioning concepts, rethinking conflicts
Marseille (France), 6-8 July 2005
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01: Colonial grievances info | papers
02: Reshaping Indigenous worlds info | papers
03: Dynamics of Pacific Religiosity info | papers
04: Mapping Oceania info | papers
05: Rethinking political conflicts, beyond ethnicity info | papers
06: Cultural festivals info | papers
07: Enchantments of technology info | papers
08: Ownership in effect info | papers
09: Spiritual material info | papers
10: Endangered Languages info | papers
11: Transculturation info | papers
12: New Caledonia in Oceania info | papers
13: Keynotes info | papers
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| id: | 2 | | Title: | Reshaping indigenous worlds. A comparative study of settler societies in the South Pacific: Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia, XVIIIth-XXth centuries. | | Number of papers: | 15 | | Organizers: | Merle, Isabelle
(CNRS-CREDO, Marseilles, France)
Attwood, Bain
(Monash University, Australia)
Denoon, Donald
(Australian National University) | | Abstract: | This workshop engages in the comparative history of French and British colonial systems. The aim is to commence an historical and methodological reflection on comparative methodologiy, its application to colonies of settlement in the Pacific and the relevance or pertinence of such « transnational » comparaison between French and British Empires. By \"Reshaping Indigenous Worlds\", we mean the manner in which the British and French reconceptualised and« reformed » Indigenous societies in an attempt to integrate them within newly defined colonial frameworks and categories. This line of enquiry provides the opportunity to reflect upon notions such as \"indigenous property\", \"land rights\", native status (vs citizenships), \"half-castes\" or \"métis\", \"chefferies\". It also provides the opportunity to rethink similarities and differences between different colonial contexts in terms of European and Indigenous relations: violence, confrontation, negociation, collaboration. It could help shed light on other aspects such as the role of religious missions and the question of religion in general, the position of indigenous people on the work market, some social aspects such as health, alcoolism, schooling, poverty and so on.
This workshop\'s objective is to invite a number of specialists to participate in the ESfO Conference and to develop and consolidate a methodological and historiographical comparative framework between these settler societies in collaboration with French partners. |
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