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In 2012, a chance encounter between a curator and a century-old expedition journal occurred in the archives of a Cambridge museum. The journal was written by a young anthropologist, Paul Denys Montague, and recorded his travels in the South Pacific Islands of New Caledonia in 1914, where he became fascinated with the culture of the local Kanak people. Returning to Cambridge at the outbreak of World War One, Montague deposited his journal and a collection of Kanak objects in the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology and left to join the Royal Flying Corps. A talented artist, musician and member of Rupert Brooke's 'Neo-pagan' set, his promising career was cut short when his plane was shot down in Salonika in 1917.Montague's research and the objects he collected lay untouched for a century. Their rediscovery brought these materials and the histories they contained to new life, opening up a range of contemporary connections between past and present, Britain and New Caledonia, Europeans and Kanak, the idea of the museum and the art of curation.Museum, Magic, Memory explores the complex encounters between history, biography, museology and collecting that characterise the work of curation in the twenty-first century.

Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. --- Kanak (New Caledonian people). --- Museum techniques. --- Kanak (New Caledonian people) --- Social life and customs. --- Montague, Paul D.,

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Kanak (New Caledonian people) --- Bamboo engraving --- Kanak (Peuple de Nouvelle-Calédonie) --- Gravure sur bambou

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In this study, the author describes the linguistic expression of space in Caac, an endangered and under-documented Oceanic language spoken in New Caledonia, from both a descriptive and theoretical perspective. Part I provides a concise description of Caac grammar, presenting a first formal portrait of this language to the reader. Part II describes the formal and semantic features of the linguistic resources available in Caac to encode spatial relationships. Part III presents the theoretical framework based on and exploring further the vector analysis developed by Bohnemeyer (2012) and Bohnemeyer & O'Meara (2012). In particular, the author proposes an additional sub-category of vectors (Head-unspecified Vectors) which accounts for the uses of centrifugal forms in Caac. The resulting framework provides a systematic account of expressions of orientation as well as location and motion, and to combine the Frames of Reference typology (Pederson et al. 1998; Levinson, 1996, 2003; Bohnemeyer & Levinson, not dated) with an analysis of deictic expressions within a single framework. Special attention, moreover, is given to the use of Caac absolute and deictic directionals in spatial constructions involving Fictive Motion. The analysis of Caac data leads us to introduce an additional category of Fictive Motion beyond those previously recognised in the literature, labelled here "Anticipated Paths", which in turn shed new light on the nature of vectors and the relationship between location, motion and orientation.

Kanak (New Caledonian people) --- Oceanic languages. --- Caac. --- New Caledonian Languages. --- Space.

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1931, l’Exposition Coloniale. Quelques jours avant l’inauguration officielle, empoisonnés ou victimes d’une nourriture inadaptée, tous les crocodiles du marigot meurent d’un coup. Une solution est négociée par les organisateurs afin de remédier à la catastrophe. Le cirque Höffner de Francfort-sur-le-Main, qui souhaite renouveler l’intérêt du public, veut bien prêter les siens, mais en échange d’autant de Canaques. Qu’à cela ne tienne ! Les « cannibales » seront expédiés. Inspiré par ce fait authentique, le récit déroule l’intrigue sur fond du Paris des années trente – ses mentalités, l’univers étrange de l’exposition – tout en mettant en perspective les révoltes qui devaient avoir lieu un demi-siècle plus tard en Nouvelle-Calédonie.

Kanak (New Caledonian people) --- Colonies in literature --- Colonialism in literature --- New Caledonia --- Kanaka (New Caledonian people) --- Kanaka (New Caledonian people) - Fiction --- New Caledonia - Fiction

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Ethnology --- Ethnology --- Kanak (New Caledonian people) --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Canaques (Peuple de Nouvelle-Calédonie) --- Social life and customs. --- Moeurs et coutumes