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Journal de la Société des océanistes - Année 1984 - Volume 40 - Numéro 78 - Pages 51-61Bourail, au centre de la côte ouest de la Nouvelle- Calédonie, a été un des premiers établissements coloniaux importants. Alain Saussol en a relaté l'histoire, très tôt traversée d'insurrections canaques successives, les ennemis vaincus d'un jour devenant les alliés des Blancs le lendemain, l'imbroglio culminant par la révolte de 1878. L'auteur met en place les groupes mélanésiens en cause, les situe sur la carte, de façon à préciser les ambiguïtés nées des insuffisances de l'onomastique coloniale. Il se réfère aux données recueillies par lui-même, complétant les indications plus anciennes de Maurice Leenhardt, pour retrouver la localisation de chacun, ses origines, ses alliances et sa tradition orale. Il relève ainsi les liens des clans de Bourail avec la région de Moindou-La Foa au sud-ouest, les vallées parallèles de Newa, de Neawa et de Houaïlou au nord-est et les régions de Poya et de Koné au nord -ouest. À cette occasion apparaît le rôle crucial des clans côtiers dans l'extension vers le nord de l'insurrection de 1878.
Bourail, in the middle of the west coast of New Caledonia, has been one of the very first important colonial settlements of the country. Alain Saussol has written its history, made of successive native uprisings, the vanquished being later the white man's allies against those who had helped the latter in the first case, this coming and going ending with 1878 insurrection. J. Guiart describes the different Melanesian groups of the time, puts them on the map, showing how haphazard was the colonial knowledge about them. He uses his own data, adding thus to the older information published by Maurice Leenhardt, giving the location of each clan, its origin, its alliances and its oral tradition. He illustrates the links of the Bourail area with Moindou and La Foa in the south-west, the parallel valleys of Newa, Neawa and Houailou in the north-east and the Poya and Koné areas in the north-west. Through this analysis appears the crucial role of the coastal clans in the northern extension of the 1878 uprising.
11 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.
Bourail, in the middle of the west coast of New Caledonia, has been one of the very first important colonial settlements of the country. Alain Saussol has written its history, made of successive native uprisings, the vanquished being later the white man's allies against those who had helped the latter in the first case, this coming and going ending with 1878 insurrection. J. Guiart describes the different Melanesian groups of the time, puts them on the map, showing how haphazard was the colonial knowledge about them. He uses his own data, adding thus to the older information published by Maurice Leenhardt, giving the location of each clan, its origin, its alliances and its oral tradition. He illustrates the links of the Bourail area with Moindou and La Foa in the south-west, the parallel valleys of Newa, Neawa and Houailou in the north-east and the Poya and Koné areas in the north-west. Through this analysis appears the crucial role of the coastal clans in the northern extension of the 1878 uprising.
11 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.
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