Author: Beatrice Ethel Grimshaw
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Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Fiji and Its Possibilities
Author: Beatrice Ethel Grimshaw
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Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Publisher:
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Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Fiji: The Challenges and Opportunities of Diversity
Author: Vijay Naidu
Publisher: Minority Rights Group
ISBN: 1907919392
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Fiji has experienced four military coups and a military mutiny since 1987, mainly as a result of tension between the majority indigenous Fijian population and an economically powerful Indian minority. Smaller minorities, including Banabans, Rotumans, Chinese, Melanesians and other Pacific islanders are largely politically invisible, and socially and economically excluded. In January 2013, Fiji’s government rejected a draft constitution drawn up by an independent commission, and submitted it to be re-written by the Attorney-General’s office. This intervention threatens to significantly undermine the people’s confidence in the process, the final document and a democratic future for Fiji. Against the backdrop of these upheavals, this report provides insight into the underlying causes and consequences of ethnic tensions in Fiji, based on evidence drawn from extensive interviews across the diversity of Fiji’s ethnic groups. This report urges the government, civil society and religious and ethnic community leaders to promote understanding, tolerance and dialogue between groups. It also provides specific recommendations on tackling ethnic discrimination and exclusion.
Publisher: Minority Rights Group
ISBN: 1907919392
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Fiji has experienced four military coups and a military mutiny since 1987, mainly as a result of tension between the majority indigenous Fijian population and an economically powerful Indian minority. Smaller minorities, including Banabans, Rotumans, Chinese, Melanesians and other Pacific islanders are largely politically invisible, and socially and economically excluded. In January 2013, Fiji’s government rejected a draft constitution drawn up by an independent commission, and submitted it to be re-written by the Attorney-General’s office. This intervention threatens to significantly undermine the people’s confidence in the process, the final document and a democratic future for Fiji. Against the backdrop of these upheavals, this report provides insight into the underlying causes and consequences of ethnic tensions in Fiji, based on evidence drawn from extensive interviews across the diversity of Fiji’s ethnic groups. This report urges the government, civil society and religious and ethnic community leaders to promote understanding, tolerance and dialogue between groups. It also provides specific recommendations on tackling ethnic discrimination and exclusion.
Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York
Author: American Geographical Society of New York
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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Fiji
Author: William Allan Chapple
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Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Publisher:
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Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Bulletin of the American Geographical Society
Author: American Geographical Society of New York
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 944
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 944
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The Dial
Author: Francis Fisher Browne
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
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Report
Author: Commonwealth Shipping Committee
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Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
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Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Colonial Reports - Annual
Author: Great Britain. Colonial Office
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
Each number comprises the annual report of a different colony for a particular year.
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
Each number comprises the annual report of a different colony for a particular year.
Men from Under the Sky
Author: Stanley Brown
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462912281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
The cannibal kings of Fiji are gone, but their spirit lives on. Cannibalism in Fiji and the gruesome "earth ovens" are gone; the kai vavalagi, "the men from over the horizon," changed that, bringing their own brands of justice tempered by the musket, disease, and dissoluteness. There were giants in those days, Fijians and Westerners alike. This gripping and unique history of Fiji by Stanley Brown, a well-known Fiji "old-timer" and historian, is woven around the lives of eleven Western "giants," Europeans and Americans who had the greatest impact on each epoch. Not all these Westerners lived to tell the tale. This stirring narrative is replete with hair-raising accounts of battles and brutality. One incident of supreme savagery was reported by Lockerby, a famous trader, who reported that more than three hundred fifty old men, women and children were butchered after a battle: "As the canoes sallied back tot he mainland coast in the evening, the reddening sky silhouetted the bodies of children hanging from the mastheads." The earth–ovens were well–fueled that evening. But time and the tides of civilization tame the savage beast, and today Fiji is busy developing its economy, but the old accounts and stories still ring true.
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462912281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
The cannibal kings of Fiji are gone, but their spirit lives on. Cannibalism in Fiji and the gruesome "earth ovens" are gone; the kai vavalagi, "the men from over the horizon," changed that, bringing their own brands of justice tempered by the musket, disease, and dissoluteness. There were giants in those days, Fijians and Westerners alike. This gripping and unique history of Fiji by Stanley Brown, a well-known Fiji "old-timer" and historian, is woven around the lives of eleven Western "giants," Europeans and Americans who had the greatest impact on each epoch. Not all these Westerners lived to tell the tale. This stirring narrative is replete with hair-raising accounts of battles and brutality. One incident of supreme savagery was reported by Lockerby, a famous trader, who reported that more than three hundred fifty old men, women and children were butchered after a battle: "As the canoes sallied back tot he mainland coast in the evening, the reddening sky silhouetted the bodies of children hanging from the mastheads." The earth–ovens were well–fueled that evening. But time and the tides of civilization tame the savage beast, and today Fiji is busy developing its economy, but the old accounts and stories still ring true.