Author: Publisher:
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Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Fijian Studies
Author: Fijian Studies
Author: Karl Erik LarssonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Choco Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Secondary Education in Fiji
Author: Helen TavolaPublisher: [email protected]
ISBN: 9789820200753
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Fijian Studies
Author: Body, Self, and Society
Author: Anne E. BeckerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812290240
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Anne E. Becker examines the cultural context of the embodied self through her ethnography of bodily aesthetics, food exchange, care, and social relationships in Fiji. She contrasts the cultivation of the body/self in Fijian and American society, arguing that the motivation of Americans to work on their bodies' shapes as a personal endeavor is permitted by their notion that the self is individuated and autonomous. On the other hand, because Fijians concern themselves with the cultivation of social relationships largely expressed through nurturing and food exchange, there is a vested interest in cultivating others' bodies rather than one's own.
Education in Fiji
Author: Clive WhiteheadPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The Fijian Colonial Experience
Author: Timothy J. MacNaughtPublisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1921934360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Indigenous Fijians were singularly fortunate in having a colonial administration that halted the alienation of communally owned land to foreign settlers and that, almost for a century, administered their affairs in their own language and through culturally congenial authority structures and institutions. From the outset, the Fijian Administration was criticised as paternalistic and stifling of individualism. But for all its problems it sustained, at least until World War II, a vigorously autonomous and peaceful social and political world in quite affluent subsistence — underpinning the celebrated exuberance of the culture exploited by the travel industry ever since.
Thinking
Author: D. N. PerkinsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317767268
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
An Introduction to Island Studies
Author: James RandallPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1786615479
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Island Studies can be deceptively challenging and rewarding for an undergraduate student. Islands can be many things: nations, tourist destinations, quarantine stations, billionaire baubles, metaphors. The study of islands offers a way to take this 'bewildering variety' and to use it as a lens and a tool to better understand our own world of islands. An Introduction to Island Studies is an approachable look at this interdisciplinary field - from the islands as biodiversity hotspots, their settlement, human migration and occupation through to the place of islands in the popular imagination. Featuring geopolitical, social and economic frameworks, James Randall gives a bottom-up guide to this most modern area of study. From the geological analysis of island formation to the metaphorical use of islands in culture and literature, the growing field of island studies is truly interdisciplinary. This new introduction gives readers from many disciplines the local, global, and regional perspectives that unlock the promise of island studies as a way to see the world. From the struggles and concerns of the Anthropocene—climate change, vulnerability and resilience, sustainable development, through to policy making and local environments—island studies has the potential to change the debate.
Etnologiska Studier
Author: Göteborgs etnografiska museumPublisher:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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