Fijian Studies
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 29,55 MB
Release : 2007-05
Category : Fiji
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Author :
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 29,55 MB
Release : 2007-05
Category : Fiji
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Author : Karl Erik Larsson
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Page : 156 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Choco Indians
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Page : 136 pages
File Size : 21,50 MB
Release : 2006-11
Category : Fiji
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Author : Helen Tavola
Publisher : [email protected]
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 34,80 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789820200753
Author : Anne E. Becker
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 11,77 MB
Release : 2013-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0812290240
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.
Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 22,74 MB
Release : 1988-10-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780226154299
The people who live in the Boumaa region of the Fijian island of Taveuni speak a dialect of Fijian that is mutually intelligible with Standard Fijian, the two differing as much perhaps as do the American and British varieties of English. During 1985, R. M. W. Dixon—one of the most insightful of linguists engaged in descriptive studies today—lived in the village of Waitabu and studied the language spoken there. He found in Boumaa Fijian a wealth of striking features unknown in commonly studied languages and on the basis of his fieldwork prepared this grammar. Fijian is an agglutinating language, one in which words are formed by the profligate combining of morphemes. There are no case inflections, and tense and aspect as shown by independent clitics or words within a predicate complex. Most verbs come in both transitive and intransitive forms, and nouns can be build up regularly from verbal parts and verbs from nouns. The language is also marked by a highly developed pronoun system and by a vocabulary rich in areas of social significance. In the opening chapters, Dixon describes the Islands' political, social, and linguistic organization, outlines the main points of Fijian phonology, and presents an overview of the grammar. In succeeding chapters, he examines a number of grammatical topics in greater detail, including clause and phrase structure, verbal syntax, deictics, and anaphora. The volume also includes a full vocabulary of all forms treated in discussion and three of the fifteen texts recorded from monolingual village elders on which the grammar is based.
Author : Clive Whitehead
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Page : 256 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Education
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Author : Timothy J. MacNaught
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1921934360
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.
Author : R. J. Morrison
Publisher : [email protected]
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,59 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789820201071
"Science of the Pacific Island Peoples is a series of four volumes which contains a unique collection of traditional scientific and technical knowledge from the Pacific Islands. Traditional knowledge, based on accumulated experience or continuous usage, is usually passed from one generation to the next by work of mouth and demonstration. Having had little attention from the media, education ministries, or development agencies, traditional knowledge is in danger of being forgotten. These books attempt to record some aspects of traditional knowledge before they are lost. This, the fourth volume, on Education, Language, Patterns, and Policy contains chapters on allegory, Australia, tourism, the 21st century, Fijian cosmology, Tongan symmetries, Papua New Guinea, the Cook Islands, communication and information, the Crown Research Institutes of Aotearoa/New Zealand, Polynesian thought, Maori knowledge, developmental activities in Western Samoa, Fijian mats, Micronesian development, and Vanuatu games. The other volumes in the series are Ocean and Coastal Studies (volume 1); Land Use and Agriculture (volume 2); and Fauna, Flora, Food & Medicine (volume 3)."--Back cover.
Author : Albert Charles Smith
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Page : 166 pages
File Size : 14,87 MB
Release : 1942
Category : Botany
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