Neither Cargo nor Cult : Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji
Martha. Kaplan
Bok Engelsk 1995 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | North Carolina : : Duke University Press, , 1995.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (250 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - CONTENTS; List of Figures; Preface: Neither Cargo nor Cult; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Culture, History, and Colonialism; 2 Embattled People of the Land: The Ra Social Landscape, 1840-1875; 3 Navosavakadua as Priest of the Land; 4 Colonial Constructions of Disorder: Navosavakadua as "Dangerous and Disaffected Native"; 5 Navosavakadua's Ritual Polity; 6 Routinizing Articulating Systems: Jehovah and the People of the Land, 1891-1940; 7 Narratives of Navosavakadua in the 1980s and 1990s; 8 Navosavakadua among the Vatukaloko; 9 Conclusion: Do Cults Exist? Do States Exist?; Bibliography. - Index. - 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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| Emner | Navosavakadua : (NO-TrBIB)90854472
Cargo cults - Fiji Fiji - Biography Fiji - Politics and government Vis mer... Navosavakadua, -1897.
Ethnic & Race Studies Gender & Ethnic Studies Social Sciences sosialantropologi etnografi kultur historie kolonialisme religioner kulter navosavakadua antropologi politikk kolonihistorie rutualer |
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| ISBN | 0822315785. - 0822315939
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