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oapen-20.500.12657-333512022-04-26T12:24:13Z Degei's Descendants (Terra Australis 41) Spriggs, Matthew Scarr, Deryck culture history fiji Degei Fijians Mataqali Nadi Nawaka Scout Jamboree Polity Rakiraki District Terra Australis Yasawa Islands bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1M Australasia, Oceania & other land areas::1MK Oceania::1MKL Melanesia::1MKLF Fiji Dr Parke’s monograph examines how Fijians, especially in western areas of Fiji, currently understand and explain the origins and development of the social and political divisions of late pre-colonial traditional Fijian society. It assesses the reasoning, consistency and, where possible, the historical accuracy of such understandings. The oral history research which forms the backbone of the study was conducted in either standard Fijian or one or other of the western Fijian dialects with which Dr Parke was familiar. The period on which the monograph concentrates is the two centuries or so immediately prior to the Deed of Cession on 10 October 1874. A number of the major chiefs of Fiji had offered to cede Fiji to Queen Victoria; and after the offer had been accepted, Fiji became a British Crown Colony on that day. The volume will be of interest to all archaeologists, anthropologists and historians with an interest in Fiji. It will also be of wider interest to Pacific Studies scholars and those of British colonial history as well as historians with a wider interest in indigenous traditional histories and their role in governance today. 2014-10-13 00:00:00 2020-04-01T14:41:02Z 2020-04-01T14:41:02Z 2014 book 502535 OCN: 945782817 9781925021813 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33351 eng application/pdf n/a 502535.pdf http://press.anu.edu.au/titles/terra-australis/degeis-descendants/ ANU Press 10.26530/OAPEN_502535 10.26530/OAPEN_502535 ddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71 9781925021813 open access
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Dr Parke’s monograph examines how Fijians, especially in western areas of Fiji, currently understand and explain the origins and development of the social and political divisions of late pre-colonial traditional Fijian society. It assesses the reasoning, consistency and, where possible, the historical accuracy of such understandings. The oral history research which forms the backbone of the study was conducted in either standard Fijian or one or other of the western Fijian dialects with which Dr Parke was familiar. The period on which the monograph concentrates is the two centuries or so immediately prior to the Deed of Cession on 10 October 1874. A number of the major chiefs of Fiji had offered to cede Fiji to Queen Victoria; and after the offer had been accepted, Fiji became a British Crown Colony on that day. The volume will be of interest to all archaeologists, anthropologists and historians with an interest in Fiji. It will also be of wider interest to Pacific Studies scholars and those of British colonial history as well as historians with a wider interest in indigenous traditional histories and their role in governance today.
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