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Degei's Descendants: Spirits, Place and People in Pre-Cession Fiji

Degei's Descendants: Spirits, Place and People in Pre-Cession Fiji

Spriggs, Matthew
Scarr, Deryck

Paperback

Series: Terra Australis, Book 41

AnthropologyArchaeology

ISBN10: 1925021815
ISBN13: 9781925021813
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Aug 1 2014
Pages: 340
Weight: 2.42
Height: 0.92 Width: 8.27 Depth: 11.69
Language: English
Dr Parke's monograph examines how Fijians, especially in western areas of Fiji, currently understand and explain the origins and development of the social and political divisions of late pre-colonial traditional Fijian society. It assesses the reasoning, consistency and, where possible, the historical accuracy of such understandings. The oral history research which forms the backbone of the study was conducted in either standard Fijian or one or other of the western Fijian dialects with which Dr Parke was familiar. The period on which the monograph concentrates is the two centuries or so immediately prior to the Deed of Cession on 10 October 1874. A number of the major chiefs of Fiji had offered to cede Fiji to Queen Victoria; and after the offer had been accepted, Fiji became a British Crown Colony on that day. The volume will be of interest to all archaeologists, anthropologists and historians with an interest in Fiji. It will also be of wider interest to Pacific Studies scholars and those of British colonial history as well as historians with a wider interest in indigenous traditional histories and their role in governance today.

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