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dc.contributor.authorSpriggs, Matthew
dc.contributor.authorScarr, Deryck
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-13 00:00:00
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T14:41:02Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T14:41:02Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier502535
dc.identifierOCN: 945782817en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33351
dc.description.abstractDr 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1M Australasia, Oceania, Pacific Islands, Atlantic Islands::1MK Oceania::1MKL Melanesia::1MKLF Fijien_US
dc.subject.otherculture
dc.subject.otherhistory
dc.subject.otherfiji
dc.subject.otherDegei
dc.subject.otherFijians
dc.subject.otherMataqali
dc.subject.otherNadi
dc.subject.otherNawaka Scout Jamboree
dc.subject.otherPolity
dc.subject.otherRakiraki District
dc.subject.otherTerra Australis
dc.subject.otherYasawa Islands
dc.titleDegei's Descendants (Terra Australis 41)
dc.title.alternativeSpirits, Place and People in Pre-Cession Fiji
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.26530/OAPEN_502535
oapen.relation.isPublishedByddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71
oapen.relation.isbn9781925021813
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Degei - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degei; Fiji - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji; Fijians - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fijians; Mataqali - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mataqali; Nadi - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadi; Nawaka Scout Jamboree - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawaka_Scout_Jamboree; Polity - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polity; Rakiraki District - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakiraki_District; Terra Australis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Australis; Yasawa Islands - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasawa_Islands
oapen.identifier.ocn945782817


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