Download or read book A Remarkable Rotuman Woman written by Jacinta Tonga and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Petera Veu was born out of wedlock and into a time when girls lived lives of quiet, domestic servitude. But Petera Veu had other ideas. Like the Fijian island of Rotuma in which she was raised, Petera didn't quite fit in with her surroundings. She picked fights, stole food, rebuked priests and generally spoke her mind whenever possible. Determined, independent and, at times, downright intractable, Petera Veu lived life on her own terms. A Remarkable Rotuman Woman is Jacinta Tonga's memoir of her late grandmother, the indomitable Petera Veu, and speaks of traditional life in the South Pacific, the peculiarities of Rotuman culture and of her grandmother's spirit that still lives on today.

Download or read book Ancient Religions of the Austronesian World written by Julian Baldick and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austronesia is the vast oceanic region which stretches from Madagascar to Taiwan to New Zealand. Encompassing both scattered archipelagos and major landmasses, Austronesia - derived from the Latin australis,'southern',and Greek nesos,'island' - is used primarily as a linguistic term, designating a family of languages spoken by peoples with a shared heritage. Julian Baldick, a celebrated historian of ancient religion, here argues that the diverse inhabitants of the Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia, New Guinea and Oceania show a common inheritance that extends beyond language. This commonality is found above all in mythology and ritual, which reach back to an ancient, prehistoric past. From around 1250 BCE the original proto-Oceanic speakers migrated eastwards from South-East Asia. Navigating by the sun, the stars, bird flight, the swells of the sea and cloud-swathed mountain islands, Austronesian voyagers used canoes and outriggers to settle on new territories. They developed a unified pattern of religion characterised by mortuary rites, headhunting and agrarian rituals of the annual calendar, culminating in a post-harvest festival often sexual in nature. This unique overview of Austronesian belief and tradition - the author's final book, and published posthumously - will be essential reading for students of religion, prehistory and anthropology.

Download or read book Man and a Half written by Andrew Pawley and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rotuma Hanu Pumue written by Anselmo Fatiaki and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 1991 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... The aim of the publication has been to present various facets of Rotuma's culture and the changes faced by the Rotuman people today. With three exceptions, the authors are all Rotuman, telling their own tales of Rotuma's uniqueness in depth for the first time. They relate aspects of Rotuma's geography and history as well as the influence of the missions and colonial attempts to govern land tenure. The marriage and mamasa ceremonies are described in detail, and the different dance forms and certain chants. A major section focuses on the network of kinship links which forms the basis of Rotuma's social and political system. Almost all of the authors are concerned indirectly with the process of change affecting Rotuman society, and three chapters describe the physical manifestation of this: the emigration of Rotumans to Fiji, the need for childen to leave the island for higher education, and the communities established away from home ..." -- Foreword p. ix.

Download or read book Report of the Commission Appointed to Inquire Into the Decrease of the Native Population written by Fiji. Commission Appointed to Inquire into the Decrease of the Native Population and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report written by Fiji. Commission to Inquire into the Decrease of the Native Population and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes articles on issues of worldwide anthropological interest.

Download or read book Circulation in Population Movement Routledge Revivals written by Murray Chapman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1985, this collection of essays deals with processes of population movement and how they have operated over time. It is also about people: Melanesian’s who number some five million and inhabit the region stretching from the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya to the Independent State of Fiji. Standard work on Movement in third world societies has emphasized migration, involving a shift in residence from one domicile to another, at the expense of the interchange of people between diverse places and different circumstances. Many moves, as from villages and towns, are circulatory: they begin at, go away from, but ultimately end in the same dwelling place and community. This book focuses on the full range of territorial mobility, especially circulation, and its meanings for the people involved. This volume brings together indigenous scholars, foreign field researchers, and international authorities from many of the social sciences: anthropology, demography, economics, geography and sociology. It presents a set of multicultural statements about the mobility of particular peoples within a region of the third world. This collection about specifically Melanesian issues aims to stimulate broader visions among population scholars, and it underlines the pressing need for more theoretical and empirical work on a volatile, yet neglected, category of population movement.

Download or read book Seksek e Hatana written by Aubrey L. Parke and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a collection of hanuju, fäeag tupu'a and rogrogo (myths, legends and stories) as well as some fakpeje (ceremonial speeches) and sua (songs) gathered in 1964 in Rotuma. Many of the tales refer to specific places in Rotuma and its offshore islets (called "dependencies" in the Rotuma Deed of Cession of 1881). The islet of Hatana is central to the origin myths of Rotuma. Seksek 'e Hatan is more than a record of traditions and memoirs because it includes "excerpts from an archaeologist's field notebook." This approach sets the traditions of Rotuma in an archaeological and geographical landscape, and in a context of ceremonial and traditional activities, signs and omens."--Publisher's description.

Download or read book Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Brown Men and Women written by Edward Reeves and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute written by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Shipley Collection of Scientific Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A short history of Rotuma written by W. J. E. Eason and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Rotuma, Fijian Islands. Includes some social history, discussion of missions, land disputes, and genealogical information.

Download or read book Report of the Meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Endangered Languages and Language Learning written by Foundation for Endangered Languages. Conference and published by Gwasg y Bwthyn. This book was released on 2008 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: