Author: Arthur Hamilton-Gordon Baron StanmorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Letters and Notes Written During the Disturbances in the Highlands (known as the "Devil County") of Viti Levu, Fiji, 1876
Author: Arthur Hamilton-Gordon Baron StanmorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Catalogue of the Valuable Library of the Late Rev. Henry Richards Luard
Author: AnonymousPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108057292
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
This 1891 catalogue of Luard's library shows the wide range of interests of a Victorian scholar, clergyman and university administrator.
Neither Cargo nor Cult
Author: Martha KaplanPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822381915
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
In the 1880s an oracle priest, Navosavakadua, mobilized Fijians of the hinterlands against the encroachment of both Fijian chiefs and British colonizers. British officials called the movement the Tuka cult, imagining it as a contagious superstition that had to be stopped. Navosavakadua and many of his followers, deemed "dangerous and disaffected natives," were exiled. Scholars have since made Tuka the standard example of the Pacific cargo cult, describing it as a millenarian movement in which dispossessed islanders sought Western goods by magical means. In this study of colonial and postcolonial Fiji, Martha Kaplan examines the effects of narratives made real and traces a complex history that began neither as a search for cargo, nor as a cult. Engaging Fijian oral history and texts as well as colonial records, Kaplan resituates Tuka in the flow of indigenous Fijian history-making and rereads the archives for an ethnography of British colonizing power. Proposing neither unchanging indigenous culture nor the inevitable hegemony of colonial power, she describes the dialogic relationship between plural, contesting, and changing articulations of both Fijian and colonial culture. A remarkable enthnographic account of power and meaning, Neither Cargo nor Cult addresses compelling questions within anthropological theory. It will attract a wide audience among those interested in colonial and postcolonial societies, ritual and religious movements, hegemony and resistance, and the Pacific Islands.
Disturbing History
Author: Robert NicolePublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824860985
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Disturbing History focuses on Fiji’s people and their agency in responding to and engaging the multifarious forms of authority and power that were manifest in the colony from 1874 to 1914. By concentrating on the lives of ordinary Fijians, the book presents alternate ways of reconstructing the island’s past. Couched in the traditions of social, subaltern, and people’s histories, the study is an excavation of a large mass of material that tells the often moving stories of lives that have largely been overlooked by historians. These challenge conventional historical accounts that tend to celebrate the nation, represent Fiji’s colonial experience as ordered and peaceful, or British tutelage as benevolent. In its contribution to postcolonial theory, Disturbing History reveals resistance as a constant but partial and untidy mix of other constituents such as collaboration, consent, appropriation, and opportunism, which together form the colonial landscape. In turn, colonialism in Fiji is shown as a force shaped in struggle, fractured and often fragile, with a presence and application in the daily lives of people that was often chaotic, imperfect, and susceptible to subversion. The book divides the period of study into two broad categories: organized resistance and everyday forms of resistance. The first examines the Colo War (1876), the Tuka Movement (1878–1891), the Seaqaqa War (1894), the Movement for Federation with New Zealand (1901–1903), the Viti Kabani Movement (1913–1917), and the various organized labor protests. The second half of the book addresses resistance manifested in the villages and plantations, including tax and land boycotts, violence and retributive justice, avoidance protest, petitioning, and women’s resistance. In their entirety these forms reveal a complex web of relationships between powerful and subordinate groups and among subordinate groups themselves. The author concludes that resistance cannot be framed as a totality but as a multilayered and multidimensional reality. In the wake of Fiji’s present volatile climate, this book will aid readers in understanding the continuities and disjunctures in Fiji’s interethnic and intraethnic relations.
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute
Author: Royal Commonwealth Society. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commonwealth countries
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Fijian Society
Author: Wallace DeaneLetters and Notes Written During the Disturbances in the Highlands (known as the "devil Country) of Viti Levu, Fiji, 1876
Author: Arthur Hamilton-Gordon Baron StanmorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Geographical Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, formerly published separately.
Publications
Author: New Spalding Club (Aberdeen, Scotland)Publisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Author: