Neither cargo nor cult : ritual politics and the colonial imagination in Fiji /

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In the 1880s an oracle priest, Navosavakadua, mobilized Fijians of the hinterlands against the encroachment of both Fijian chiefs and British colonizers. British officials called the movement the Tuka cult, imagining it as a contagious superstition that had to be stopped. Navosavakadua and many of h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kaplan, Martha, 1957- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1995.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Temas:
Navosavakadua, > -1897.
Navosavakadua, > m. 1897.
Navosavakadua, > -1897
Cargo cults > Fiji.
Culte du cargo > Fidji.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Cargo cults
Politics and government
Cargo-Kult
Tuka cult.
Culte du cargo.
Fiji > Politics and government.
Fiji > Biography.
Fidji > Politique et gouvernement.
Fidji > Biographies.
Fiji
Fidschi
Social anthropology
Biographies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In the 1880s an oracle priest, Navosavakadua, mobilized Fijians of the hinterlands against the encroachment of both Fijian chiefs and British colonizers. British officials called the movement the Tuka cult, imagining it as a contagious superstition that had to be stopped. Navosavakadua and many of his followers, deemed ""dangerous and disaffected natives,"" were exiled. Scholars have since made Tuka the standard example of the Pacific cargo cult, describing it as a millenarian movement in which dispossessed islanders sought Western goods by magical means. In this study of colonial and pos.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xviii, 226 pages) : maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-217) and index.
ISBN:9780822381914
0822381915

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