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Degei's descendants : spirits, place and people in pre-cession Fiji / Aubrey Parke ; edited by Matthew Spriggs and Deryck Scarr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parke, Aubrey L., author.
- Series:
- Terra Australis ; 41.
- Terra Australis ; 41
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mythology, Fijian.
- Fiji--History.
- Fiji.
- Fiji--Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ( xxx, 308pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- ANU Press 2014
- Canberra, ACT : ANU E Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- textfile
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781925021844
- 192502184X
- OCLC:
- 881471746
- Publisher Number:
- https://doi.org/10.26530/OAPEN_502535
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