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1 online resource (xviii, 226 pages) : maps |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Culture, History, and Colonialism -- Embattled People of the Land: The Ra Social Landscape, 1840-1875 -- Navosavakadua as Priest of the Land -- Colonial Constructions of Disorder: Navosavakadua as "Dangerous and Disaffected Native" -- Navosavakadua's Ritual Polity -- Routinizing Articulating Systems: Jehovah and the People of the Land, 1891-1940 -- Narratives of Navosavakadua in the 1980s and 1990s -- Navosavakadua among the Vatukaloko -- Conclusion: Do Cults Exist? Do States Exist? |
| Summary |
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 pos |
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Social anthropology |
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Fiji |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-217) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Navosavakadua, -1897.
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| SUBJECT |
Navosavakadua, -1897 fast |
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Cargo cults -- Fiji
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
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Cargo cults
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Politics and government
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Cargo-Kult
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Tuka cult.
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Culte du cargo.
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Fiji -- Politics and government
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Fiji -- Biography
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Fiji
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Fidschi
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Fidji -- Politique et gouvernement.
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Fidji -- Biographies.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822381914 |
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0822381915 |
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