{"id":24188,"date":"2012-07-07T15:33:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T15:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24188"},"modified":"2017-01-26T00:25:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T00:25:05","slug":"the-presumption-of-indigeneity-colonial-administration-the-%e2%80%98community-of-race%e2%80%99-and-the-category-of-indigene-in-new-caledonia-1887%e2%80%931946","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24188","title":{"rendered":"The Presumption of Indigeneity: Colonial Administration, the \u2018Community of Race\u2019 and the Category of Indig\u00e8ne in New Caledonia, 1887\u20131946"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Presumption of Indigeneity: Colonial Administration, the \u2018Community of Race\u2019 and the Category of Indig\u00e8ne in New Caledonia, 1887\u20131946<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Journal of Pacific History<\/a>
\nPublished online: 2012-06-29
\npages 1-20
\nDOI: 10.1080\/00223344.2012.688183<\/a><\/p>\n

Adrian Muckle<\/a><\/strong>, Lecturer in History
\nVictoria University of Wellington<\/em><\/p>\n

From 1887 to 1946, the administrative apparatus known as the indig\u00e9nat<\/a><\/em> provided French administrators in New Caledonia<\/a> with a set of exceptional measures to streamline the governing and summary repression of persons defined as indig\u00e8nes<\/em> (\u2018natives\u2019). This paper examines the place of the indig\u00e9nat<\/em>, the role of colonial administrators in defining one or more communities of race and the variable status of the category of indig\u00e8ne<\/em> in New Caledonia in the period to 1946. Particular consideration is given to the influence (or absence thereof) of the science of race on administrative thinking about native policy in New Caledonia, the distinctions drawn between different categories of indig\u00e8ne<\/em>, the extent to which cultural and political divisions between the Grande terre (mainland) and the <\/strong>Loyalty Islands<\/strong><\/a> were imagined or constructed in racial terms and the situation of m\u00e9tis<\/em> (\u2018<\/strong>half-castes<\/strong><\/a>\u2019).<\/strong> The paper argues that an incipient definition of the indig\u00e8ne<\/em> as a person of Melanesian, Polynesian, mixed or Oceanian race must be understood in the context of the development of the indentured labour and immigration regimes (the importation of workers from Asia and other parts of Oceania) as well as the ways in which the indig\u00e9nat<\/em> was differently applied and experienced between New Caledonia’s mainland and its dependencies (notably the Loyalty Islands), as well as by m\u00e9tis<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The Presumption of Indigeneity: Colonial Administration, the \u2018Community of Race\u2019 and the Category of Indig\u00e8ne in New Caledonia, 1887\u20131946 The Journal of Pacific History Published online: 2012-06-29 pages 1-20 DOI: 10.1080\/00223344.2012.688183 Adrian Muckle, Lecturer in History Victoria University of Wellington From 1887 to 1946, the administrative apparatus known as the indig\u00e9nat provided French administrators in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,1467,8,4405],"tags":[11195,11194,871,11193],"class_list":["post-24188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-oceania","tag-adrian-muckle","tag-journal-of-pacific-history","tag-new-caledonia","tag-the-journal-of-pacific-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51294,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24188\/revisions\/51294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}