First Fruit Ceremonies, Social Integration, and Binary versus Ternary Models in the Mea Country of New Caledonia

“First fruit ceremonies, social integration and binary versus ternary models in Mea country (New Caledonia)” deals with three different types of first fruit ceremony which were successively staged in the middle part of the Mea valley, up until colonization put and end to an autonomous activity of its own. These ceremonies which succeeded one another over a period which can not have exceeded sixty years, must have been resorted to as means of integrating recently occured events : ternary models would then have been put forward as a substitute to binary sets of organization.