Author: Joseph WaterhousePublisher:
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Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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The King and the People of Fiji
Author: Joseph WaterhousePublisher:
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Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The King and People of Fiji: Containing a Life of Thakombau; with Notices of the Fijians, Their Manners ... and Superstitions, Previous to the Great Religious Reformation in 1854
Author: Joseph WATERHOUSEThe King and the People of Fiji
Author: Joseph WaterhousePublisher:
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Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Neither Cargo Nor Cult
Author: Martha KaplanPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822315933
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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.
Fiji's Times
Author: Kim GravelleFiji and the Fijians
Author: Thomas WilliamsPublisher:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Fiji and the Fijians: The islands and their inhabitants. By Thomas Williams
Author: Thomas WilliamsPublisher:
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Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Ma'afu, Prince of Tonga, Chief of Fiji
Author: John SpurwayPublisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1925021181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 735
Book Description
Enele Ma`afu, son of Aleamotu`a, Tu`i Kanokupolu, grew up during a time of unprecedented social and political change in Tonga following the advent of Christianity. Moving to Lau, Fiji, in 1847 when he was about 21, he skilfully exploited kinship links to establish a power base there and in eastern Cakaudrove. His achievements were recognised in 1853 when his cousin King Tupou I appointed Ma`afu as Governor of the Tongans in Fiji. Acting as a putative champion of the lotu, Ma`afu undertook successful military campaigns elsewhere in Fiji and, after adding the Yasayasa Moala and the Exploring Isles to the nascent Lauan state, he was able to establish the Tovata ko Lau, a union of Lau, Cakaudrove and Bua, with himself as head. His power was formally recognised in 1869 when the Lauan chiefs appointed him as Tui Lau, a new title in the polity of Fiji. Ma`afu was now able to challenge Cakobau for the mastery of Fiji. After serving as Viceroy during the farcical planter oligarchy known as the Kingdom of Fiji, Ma`afu underwent a severe humiliation when, in order to maintain his power in Lau, he was forced to accede to the wishes of Fiji’s other great chiefs in offering their islands to Great Britain. He would end his days as Roko Tui Lau, a ‘subordinate administrator’ in the Crown Colony of Fiji, presiding over a province characterised by corruption and maladministration but where the legacy of his earlier innovative land reforms has endured.
Fiji and the Fijians; Missionary Labours Among the Cannibals
Author: Thomas WilliamsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382174227
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Fiji and the Fijians. 2 vol. The islands and their inhabitants
Author: Thomas Williams (Missionary in Fiji.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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