Book Description
History of Rotuma, Fijian Islands. Includes some social history, discussion of missions, land disputes, and genealogical information.
Author : W. J. E. Eason
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Page : 178 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Rotuma Island (Fiji)
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History of Rotuma, Fijian Islands. Includes some social history, discussion of missions, land disputes, and genealogical information.
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Page : 127 pages
File Size : 26,9 MB
Release : 1951
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Author : FIJI.
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Page : 127 pages
File Size : 32,89 MB
Release : 1951
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Author : Clerk Maxwell Churchward
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Page : 10 pages
File Size : 29,78 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Rotuman language
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Author : Anselmo Fatiaki
Publisher : [email protected]
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 32,97 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Oceania
ISBN : 9789820200357
"... 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.
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Author : Philip A. Snow
Publisher : Coral Gables, Fla. : University of Miami Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 45,80 MB
Release : 1969
Category : History
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Author : Max Quanchi
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 2005-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0810865289
The South Seas, as this region used to be called, conjured up images of adventure, belles and savages, romance and fabulous fortunes, but the long voyages of discovery and exploration of the vast Pacific Ocean were really an exercise in amazing logistics, navigation, hard grit, shipwreck and pure luck. The motivations were scientific and geographic, but at the same time nationalistic and materialistic. A series on global exploration and discovery would not be complete without this book by Quanchi and Robson. It is ambitious and informative and includes the familiar names of Laperouse, Bougainville, Cook and Dampier, as well as the intriguing stories of the Bounty Mutiny, scurvy, and the mysterious Northwest Passage, Terra Australis Ignotia and Davis Land. There are entries on first contacts, ships, navigational instruments, mapping, and botany. The scene is carefully set in the introduction, the chronology spans several centuries, and the extensive bibliography offers a guide to further reading. There are more than just dry facts in this book. It has a whiff of salt air, the clash of empires, cross-cultural beach encounters and personal adventure.
Author : Anselmo Fatiaki
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Page : 238 pages
File Size : 30,88 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Rotuma Island
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Author : Alan Tippett
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,95 MB
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0878085904
Alan Tippett’s publications played a significant role in the development of missiology. The volumes in this series augment his distinguished reputation by bringing to light his many unpublished materials and hard-to-locate printed articles. These books—encompassing theology, anthropology, history, area studies, religion, and ethnohistory—broaden the contours of the discipline. English missionary John Hunt and Tongan missionary Joeli Bulu served in the Fiji islands in the 1840s. Their lives were intertwined as they faced the social issues of island warfare, cannibalism, and the ills brought to the Pacific by traders and those involved in the labor trade. In this fascinating two-volume book Alan Tippett first provides the biography of Hunt, then together with Tomasi Kanailagi gives us the thoroughly researched and annotated autobiography of Joeli Bulu. Twenty years as a missionary in Fiji, following pastoral ministry in Australia and graduate degrees in history and anthropology, provide the rich database that made Alan R. Tippett a leading missiologist of the twentieth century. Tippett served as Professor of Anthropology and Oceanic Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary.