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
Autor principal: Kaplan, Martha, 1957- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1995.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Navosavakadua, > -1897.
Navosavakadua, > m. 1897.
Culte du cargo.
Tuka cult.
Cargo-Kult
Politics and government
Cargo cults.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Culte du cargo > Fidji.
Cargo cults > Fiji.
Fidji > Biographies.
Fidji > Politique et gouvernement.
Fidschi
Fiji.
Fiji > Biography.
Fiji > Politics and government.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
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 (248 pages): maps
ISBN:9780822381914

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