Download or read book Fiji in the Forties and Fifties written by Ian Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Fiji written by Brij V. Lal and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first concise account of the history of the Fiji islands from the beginning of human settlement to the early years of the 21st century. Its primary focus is on the period since the advent of colonial rule in the late 19th century to the present, benefiting from the author’s internationally acknowledged expertise as a scholar and writer on the Fijian past. Besides factual information, the book also offers a scholarly assessment of the people and events which have shaped Fiji’s history. The Historical Dictionary of Fiji contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Fiji.
Download or read book Pacific Art written by Anita Herle and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors explore the complex relations among Pacific artists, patrons, collectors, and museums over time, as well as the different meanings given to art objects by each.
Download or read book Represented Communities written by John D. Kelly and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1983 Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities revolutionized the anthropology of nationalism. Anderson argued that "print capitalism" fostered nations as imagined communities in a modular form that became the culture of modernity. Now, in Represented Communities, John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan offer an extensive and devastating critique of Anderson's depictions of colonial history, his comparative method, and his political anthropology. The authors build a forceful argument around events in Fiji from World War II to the 2000 coups, showing how focus on "imagined communities" underestimates colonial history and obscures the struggle over legal rights and political representation in postcolonial nation-states. They show that the "self-determining" nation-state actually emerged with the postwar construction of the United Nations, fundamentally changing the politics of representation. Sophisticated and impassioned, this book will further anthropology's contribution to the understanding of contemporary nationalisms.
Download or read book Suva Stories written by Nicholas Halter and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suva Stories explores a fascinating tapestry of histories in one of the Pacific’s oldest and most culturally diverse urban centres, the capital of Fiji. Charting the trajectory of Suva from indigenous village to colonial hub to contemporary Pacific metropolis, it draws on a rich colonial archive and moving personal memoirs that bear witness to their time. The diverse contributions in this volume form a complex mosaic of urban lives and histories that contribute fresh insights into historical and ongoing debates about race, place and belonging. Suva Stories is a valuable companion to those seeking to engage with the city’s pasts and present, and will prompt new conversations about history and memory in Fiji.
Download or read book Joyita written by David Wright and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1955 the United States-owned ship Joyita mysteriously disappeared while sailing between Apia, Samoa, and Tokelau in the Pacific Ocean. The ship was discovered in poor condition near Fiji five weeks later, but no trace has ever been found of the 25 crew and passengers who had been aboard. This is an account of events and a thorough investigation of possible explanations. It evokes the exotic expatriate life of the mid-century Pacific Islands with colorful characters and unexpected relationships.
Download or read book Social Change and Psychosocial Adaptation in the Pacific Islands written by Anthony J. Marsella and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-05-31 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Pacific Islands is noted for great upheavals, from colonization to tribal warfare, natural disasters to nuclear testing. More recently, political change, increasing technology and urbanization, and conflict between traditional and Western cultures have led to considerable social problems in the region. Substance and alcohol abuse, violence, cultural displacement, and suicide bring uncertainty to day-to-day life and stretch already overextended social resources. Social Change and Psychosocial Adaptation in the Pacific Islands sensitively balances situations applicable across this vast geographical area with data and events relevant to individual nations in Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia. Chapters are written by native clinicians, cultural anthropologists, cross-cultural psychologists, and other professionals serving the region, specifically focusing on: - Hawaii- Aboriginal Australia - The Solomon Islands - Fiji - Guam - The Marshall Islands - The Federated States of Micronesia Each provides historical background, details the country's ethnic makeup, summarizes major cultural identity/survival issues, and examines its existing health care and mental health care systems. The tasks ahead are large. Practitioners, researchers, and other professionals working with the peoples of the Pacific need culturally attuned resources to better collaborate on interventions, prevention programs, and policy. Social Change and Psychosocial Adaptation in the Pacific Islands rises to this complex challenge.
Download or read book 20th Century Fiji written by Stewart Firth and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reefs, islands and friendly people, Fiji has all those things but much more besides including a fascinating history. This is first and foremost a book about people and their lives, but it is a history of Fiji as well, covering a century that took the country from colony to independence and from a dominion to republic. Excerpts from the Fiji Times, together with a comprehensive gallery of photographs, convey a sense of what the old Fiji was like and what it has become. No century has changed Fiji more tha the one just ended. This book tells the story of that century through the lives of the men and women who did most to shape Fiji, and who left their mark on the Fiji of today. Their names come from every walk of life, from the mightiest to the lowliest. This book was written not by one person or two, but by seventeen. Like the people they write about the authors come from across the ethnic and cultural spectrum of the country. Here, in what they have written, you will find not just the great political leaders of Fiji such Ram Sir Lala Sukuna, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara and A.D. Patel, but the poets and artists, the businessmen and women, the trade unionists, the soldiers, the sports enthusiasts, the people of religion and those who offered their lives in service to the disadvantaged. This book is meant to record and honour their contribution, and in doing so to celebrate the nation itself.
Download or read book Politics of Communal Relations in Fiji 1929 1950s written by Junko Tomaru and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fiji of To Day Classic Reprint written by John Wear Burton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-05 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Fiji of to-Day The Fiji of Yesterday is rapidly becoming history. Its dark deeds are gradually being forgotten. That horrible stain of human blood is gone from the earth, and the grass is green again - nay; greener. In the Fiji of To-day new conditions of life have arisen, and these have given birth to new problems and difficulties. Their immediacy and seriousness are the chief reasons for the appearance of this book. Around two great facts the main problems of the book gather. The first is that Me Fijian is dying. No juggling with figures can deceive us in this particular, for at the rate of fifteen hundred per annum does this mortal decrease continue. When a serious epidemic touches the islands, old Charon's barque is laden to the very brim. In 1875 the measles carried off a quarter of the population Fifty years ago there were inhabitants: to-day, there are The naked truth, therefore, faces us that, unless we find some method of arresting 'this decrease, in a few score years the Fijian Church, of which Christendom has been so proud, will be blotted out. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Journal of Thomas Williams Missionary in Fiji 1840 1853 written by Thomas Williams and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Fiji written by Fiji and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fiji s Sixth Development Plan 1971 1975 written by Fiji. Ministry of Finance. Central Planning Office and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National plan for social and economic development of Fiji from 1971 to 1975 - covers employment policy, fiscal policy, monetary policy, agricultural policy, industrial policy, economic policy, educational and welfare projects, etc., and includes information on financing and implementation thereof. Statistical tables.
Download or read book Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wild Vanilla written by Peter Thomson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far across the Pacific the tales of WILD VANILLA sail. From Sydney to Suva, Samoa and Guam, they drop anchor in Tarawa, Tuvalu and Tanna, tie up in Honiara, Papeete and the Marquesas. In WILD VANILLA Fijian writer Peter Thomson delivers on the promise of his prize-winning book KAVA IN THE BLOOD. Here is a compelling collection of deeply personal stories of Fiji coups d'etat, cargo cults and the bitter-sweet cut of island heritage, told through the wanderings of beachcombers, shipwrecked writers, and the companionship of fellow travellers.
Download or read book The Indo Fijian Experience written by Subramani and published by St. Lucia [Australia] : University of Queensland Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fijian Material Culture written by Alan Richard Tippett and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
