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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Culture, History, and Colonialism
  • Embattled People of the Land: The Ra Social Landscape, 1840-1875
  • Navosavakadua as Priest of the Land
  • Colonial Constructions of Disorder: Navosavakadua as "Dangerous and Disaffected Native"
  • Navosavakadua's Ritual Polity
  • Routinizing Articulating Systems: Jehovah and the People of the Land, 1891-1940
  • Narratives of Navosavakadua in the 1980s and 1990s
  • Navosavakadua among the Vatukaloko
  • Conclusion: Do Cults Exist? Do States Exist?

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