Author: Lorimer Fison
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Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Author: Lorimer Fison
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Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 524

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Author: Fijian Society
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Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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Author: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Author: Gerald H. Anderson
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802846808
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 884

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"The book also features cross-references throughout, a bibliography accompanying each entry, an elaborate appendix listing biographies according to particular categories of interest, and a comprehensive index."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: Herman C. Kemp
Publisher: Yayasan Obor Indonesia
ISBN: 9789794614839
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 718

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Author: Charles Edward Cutts Birch Appleton
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 688

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Author: Robert Nicole
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824860985
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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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.

Author: Rod Ewins
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824860500
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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Barkcloth, or masi, is the traditional art form of the women of Vatulele Island. Its manufacture continues to flourish, even increase, while many other arts are declining, despite the fact that most of its functional roles have been usurped by Western cloth and paper. This book explores this apparent paradox and concludes that the reasons lie in the ability of its identity functions to buffer the effects of social stress. This is so for not only Vatuleleans but all Fijians. It is argued that the resultant strong indigenous demand has caused the efflorescence in barkcloth manufacture and use, contrary to the common assumption that the tourism market is the "savior" of art. This cultural vigor, however, has social costs that are explored here and weighed against its benefits. Rod Ewins locates a very local activity in both national and global contexts, historically, sociologically, and theoretically.

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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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In 1995, Man became Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. The volumes under the current title do not yet appear in the database, as JSTOR coverage of the journal currently ends at 1993.