Download or read book The Indians and Their Culture in Fiji written by Bill Thomas and published by . This book was released on 197? with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bittersweet written by Brij V. Lal and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates the 125th anniversary of the arrival of the first girmitayas in Fiji and introduces the reader to Indo-Fijians. Impoverished, but rich with the traditions of Indian culture, the girmitayas clung to their heritage while labouring under foreign and hostile conditions.
Download or read book Tears in Paradise written by Rajendra Prasad and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised Edition. TEARS IN PARADISE, extensively researched and eloquently written, is the history of our forefathers who were brought under the infamous indentured labour system to Fiji by the British Colonial authorities from 1879 to 1916. The saga of these young, mostly illiterate, simple rural folks, lured by false promises of an ever-elusive 'Paradise', needs to be read and remembered. The author has done a remarkable task of compiling the story of this Indian Diaspora, people defenceless under an alien and systematically inhumane system, yet preserving their culture while creating the wealth and beauty of the land they made their home.
Download or read book Chalo Jahaji written by Brij V. Lal and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It is a milestone in subaltern studies, a biographical journey penned by a living relic of the indentured experience and a scholar whose thoroughly interdisciplinary approach is a good example for the anthropologist, the sociologist or the economist who wish to see the proper integration of their disciplines in a major historical work.” Brinsley Samaroo, University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad
Download or read book Indians Culture in Fiji written by Bill Thomas and published by . This book was released on 197? with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Body Self and Society written by Anne E. Becker and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne E. Becker examines the cultural context of the embodied self through her ethnography of bodily aesthetics, food exchange, care, and social relationships in Fiji. She contrasts the cultivation of the body/self in Fijian and American society, arguing that the motivation of Americans to work on their bodies' shapes as a personal endeavor is permitted by their notion that the self is individuated and autonomous. On the other hand, because Fijians concern themselves with the cultivation of social relationships largely expressed through nurturing and food exchange, there is a vested interest in cultivating others' bodies rather than one's own.
Download or read book Our Wealth Is Loving Each Other written by Karen J. Brison and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Wealth Is Loving Each Other explores the fluid and context-bound nature of cultural and personal identity among indigenous Fijians. While national identity in Fiji is often defined in opposition to the West through reference to a romanticized pre-modern tradition, individual Fijians are often more concerned with defining their identity vis-à-vis other villagers and other groups within Fiji. When people craft self accounts to justify their position within the indigenous Fijian community they question and redefine both tradition and modernity. Modernity on the margins is an experience of anxiety provoking contradictions between competing ideologies, and between international ideologies and local experiences. Indigenous Fijians have been exposed to international ideologies and government programs extolling the virtues of "pre-modern" communities that place communal good and time honored tradition over individual gain. But other waves of policy and rhetoric have stressed individual achievement and the need to "shake" individuals out of community bonds to foster economic development. Individuals feel contradictory pressures to be autonomous, achieving individuals and to subordinate self to community and tradition. Brison examines traditional kava ceremonies, evangelical church rhetoric, and individual life history narratives, to show how individuals draw on a repertoire of narratives from local and international culture to define their identity and sense of self. Our Wealth is Loving Each Other is appropriate for upper level students and anyone with an interest in Fiji or anthropology.
Download or read book Girmitiyas written by Brij V. Lal and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is an imaginative and valuable contribution to the literature on Indian immigration. The many new insights it provides are of such importance that one hopes it will serve as a model for work on other indentured colonial populations. It is a "ground breaking work", a basic contribution to the scholarly literature on Indians in Fiji, especially because its wealth of statistical information on the origins of the immigrants and its coverage of the formal structure of the system which brought them to Fiji"--Publisher's description.
Download or read book East Indian and Fijian in Fiji written by Sylvester Maxwell Lambert and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fiji written by Debbie Nevins and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The island nation of Fiji has some of the best beach scenes and activities for visitors. Lying to the east of Australia and the north of New Zealand, this island offers a variety of culture, opportunities, and traditions. It is one of the first places to celebrate the New Year every January, and its history stretches back millennia. This book explores Fiji's many aspects. Readers learn about its language, lifestyles, and religious beliefs and practices, as well as its varied history, helping readers understand its place in contemporary society.
Download or read book A Politics of Virtue written by John D. Kelly and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kelly opens new questions about dialogue, colonial power, and changing conditions of political possibility by examining the connection between politics and sexual morality in the British colony of Fiji from 1929 to 1932.
Download or read book A Mission Divided written by Dr Kirstie Close-Barry and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2015-12-02 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides insight into the long process of decolonisation within the Methodist Overseas Missions of Australasia, a colonial institution that operated in the British colony of Fiji. The mission was a site of work for Europeans, Fijians and Indo-Fijians, but each community operated separately, as the mission was divided along ethnic lines in 1901. This book outlines the colonial concepts of race and culture, as well as antagonism over land and labour, that were used to justify this separation. Recounting the stories told by the mission’s leadership, including missionaries and ministers, to its grassroots membership, this book draws on archival and ethnographic research to reveal the emergence of ethno-nationalisms in Fiji, the legacies of which are still being managed in the post-colonial state today. ‘Analysing in part the story of her own ancestors, Kirstie Barry develops a fascinating account of the relationship between Christian proselytization and Pacific nationalism, showing how missionaries reinforced racial divisions between Fijian and Indo-Fijian even as they deplored them. Negotiating the intersections between evangelisation, anthropology and colonial governance, this is a book with resonance well beyond its Fijian setting.’ – Professor Alan Lester, University of Sussex ‘This thoroughly researched and finely crafted book unwraps and finely illustrates the interwoven layers of evolving complexity in different interpretations of ideals and debates on race, culture, colonialism and independence that informed the way the Methodist Mission was run in Fiji. It describes the human personalities and practicalities, interconnected at local, regional and global levels, which influenced the shaping of the Mission and the independent Methodist Church in Fiji. It documents the influence of evolving anthropological theories and ecumenical theological understandings of culture on mission practice. The book’s rich sources enhance our understanding of the complex history of ethnic relations in Fiji, helping to explain why ethnic divisive thinking remains a challenge.’– Jacqueline Ryle, University of the South Pacific ‘A beautifully researched study of the transnational impact of South Asian bodies on nationalisms and church devolution in Fiji, and an important resource for empire studies as a whole.’ – Professor Jane Samson, University of Alberta, Canada
Download or read book The Fijian Colonial Experience written by Timothy J. MacNaught and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous Fijians were singularly fortunate in having a colonial administration that halted the alienation of communally owned land to foreign settlers and that, almost for a century, administered their affairs in their own language and through culturally congenial authority structures and institutions. From the outset, the Fijian Administration was criticised as paternalistic and stifling of individualism. But for all its problems it sustained, at least until World War II, a vigorously autonomous and peaceful social and political world in quite affluent subsistence — underpinning the celebrated exuberance of the culture exploited by the travel industry ever since.
Download or read book Crossing the Kala Pani written by Brij V. Lal and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Colour Culture Conflict written by Alexander Mamak and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1978 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph based on a thesis on pluralistic race relations and conflict in suva, Fiji - discusses the impact of rural migration, social integration, social participation and social implications, covers urban area living conditions, occupational structure, the role of trade unions, educational aspects, religious practices, voluntary organizations, the role of political partys and includes a summary and conclusion. Bibliography pp. 198 to 203, diagrams, maps, photographs, references and statistical tables.
Download or read book The Fiji Indians written by Kenneth L. Gillion and published by Canberra : Australian National University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The period 1920-1946 was an important one in the history of Fiji, of the Fiji Indians, and of Indians overseas in general. In 1920 the place of India in the Empire and the Indians in Fiji was undefined. The indenture system had been abolished, but it was not known whether further assisted Indian immigration would be possible and whether the Indians already in Fiji would stay or return to India. If they stayed, would they supplant the indigenous Fijians as the preponderant population of the islannds, and would the local European settlers be able to hold their own against them, or would Fiji be transformed into an area of Indian cultural, economic, and possibly even political dominance? In the period the question of whether the Indian challenge could be contained aroused intense anxiety and discord. The 'Indian problem' as it was popularly known - though it could as well have been called the European problem or the Fijian problem - was, in short, the principal question of Fiji history at that time."--Preface, P. VII.
Download or read book Revival India and the Pacific 1937 written by C.F. Andrews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the effects of the indenture system on Indians across the colonies, but more specifically Fiji. It will also discuss the close relationship between the Indian settlers and the original population in each colony, as well as the position of Indians born in the colonies.
