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Book Synopsis Tavua, the White Cannibal by : Rick Williamson
Download or read book Tavua, the White Cannibal written by Rick Williamson and published by Verlag Angelika Hörnig. This book was released on 2007 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly a century ago in the South Pacific, cannibalistic pygmies lived in the rugged heart of Vanuatu's largest island, Espiritu Santo. They were thought to be extinct, but in 1995, Rick discovered they still existed. He was initiated into their tribe and became an integral part of a unique culture that hates the white man, eats human flesh, and performs child sacrifice and other bizarre rituals. These remote highlanders live in a timeless and mystical world and are so naturally violent no one else had ever documented their fascinating culture.\n
Book Synopsis The White Cannibal by : P. B. Lawson
Download or read book The White Cannibal written by P. B. Lawson and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight teenage actors, along with their young director, are the sole survivors of a plane-crash in the mountains between The Republic of Bongani and Lutalo in Africa--a region controlled by a cruel warlord who is reputed to dine on his captives.Two of the actors--Daina and Scott--are thrust into the role of group leaders due to their knowledge of the outdoors. Daina, from a wealthy family, has a fianc� back home--an attachment that becomes threatened by her proximity to Scott.The survivors are assisted by a mysterious old African shaman who appears to have a telepathic connection with Daina. The spirits of his ancestors, he claims, have told him that she has been sent by the Gods to ignite the torch of freedom in his country.Through an unexpected encounter with a teenage soldier in the rebel army, Daina and Scott are drawn into the world of the young men and boys who have been forced into military service in order to ensure the safety of captive relatives. The meeting inspires the two actors to volunteer their assistance in freeing the young soldier's mother and sisters from the rebel stronghold.Following the plane crash, Daina--who was raised in luxury--has had to trudge through a jungle inhabited by wild animals while evading the search parties of a cruel warlord...until the time when she, Scott, and a group of young soldiers set out to face the Cannibal in his mountain lair.The White Cannibal draws on the amazing backdrop of Africa--its mysticism, its unique wildlife, its breathtaking topography and the colorful diversity of its people. The book might be compared to The Hunger Games in that its protagonists are young people using their wits and courage to triumph over extreme adversity. But controlled environments have been replaced by the equally fascinating and daunting reality of darkest Africa itself.The White Cannibal is the first in a series of three books featuring Daina Roxborough.
Book Synopsis Uncivilized Races of Men in All Countries of the World by : John George Wood
Download or read book Uncivilized Races of Men in All Countries of the World written by John George Wood and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Uncivilized Races of Men in All Countries of the World by : John George Wood
Download or read book The Uncivilized Races of Men in All Countries of the World written by John George Wood and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 1510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Hill Tribes of Fiji by : Adolph Brewster Brewster
Download or read book The Hill Tribes of Fiji written by Adolph Brewster Brewster and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Neither Cargo nor Cult by : Martha Kaplan
Download or read book Neither Cargo nor Cult written by Martha Kaplan and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 postcolonial Fiji, Martha Kaplan examines the effects of narratives made real and traces a complex history that began neither as a search for cargo, nor as a cult. Engaging Fijian oral history and texts as well as colonial records, Kaplan resituates Tuka in the flow of indigenous Fijian history-making and rereads the archives for an ethnography of British colonizing power. Proposing neither unchanging indigenous culture nor the inevitable hegemony of colonial power, she describes the dialogic relationship between plural, contesting, and changing articulations of both Fijian and colonial culture. A remarkable enthnographic account of power and meaning, Neither Cargo nor Cult addresses compelling questions within anthropological theory. It will attract a wide audience among those interested in colonial and postcolonial societies, ritual and religious movements, hegemony and resistance, and the Pacific Islands.
Book Synopsis The Fijian Colonial Experience by : Timothy J. MacNaught
Download or read book The Fijian Colonial Experience written by Timothy J. MacNaught and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Australia, New Zealand Polynesia, America, Asia and ancient Europe by : John George Wood
Download or read book Australia, New Zealand Polynesia, America, Asia and ancient Europe written by John George Wood and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fiji written by Daryl Tarte and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few people have been in the unique position of being able to observe and record the dramatic changes that have taken place in the islands of Fiji over the past 80 years than fourth-generation citizen, Daryl Tarte. He writes emotively, in great detail, about his personal experience of growing up on a remote island during the colonial era, when races were segregated, and white people lived an elite existence. Following independence, he has been personally involved with many of the key economic, political and social activities that have evolved and enabled the nation to progress during the 20th century. These include the sugar industry, tourism, commerce and industry, religion, the media, women and of course, the coups. His observations into the complexities of leadership in these areas of national development are fascinating and perceptive. Much of the story is told through the eyes of the many people of all races with whom he has interacted. Fiji is made up of over 300 unique islands. Tarte has been to many of them, and in a final chapter he gives an insightful commentary of how different they all are.
Book Synopsis Disturbing History by : Robert Nicole
Download or read book Disturbing History written by Robert Nicole and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disturbing History focuses on Fiji’s people and their agency in responding to and engaging the multifarious forms of authority and power that were manifest in the colony from 1874 to 1914. By concentrating on the lives of ordinary Fijians, the book presents alternate ways of reconstructing the island’s past. Couched in the traditions of social, subaltern, and people’s histories, the study is an excavation of a large mass of material that tells the often moving stories of lives that have largely been overlooked by historians. These challenge conventional historical accounts that tend to celebrate the nation, represent Fiji’s colonial experience as ordered and peaceful, or British tutelage as benevolent. In its contribution to postcolonial theory, Disturbing History reveals resistance as a constant but partial and untidy mix of other constituents such as collaboration, consent, appropriation, and opportunism, which together form the colonial landscape. In turn, colonialism in Fiji is shown as a force shaped in struggle, fractured and often fragile, with a presence and application in the daily lives of people that was often chaotic, imperfect, and susceptible to subversion. The book divides the period of study into two broad categories: organized resistance and everyday forms of resistance. The first examines the Colo War (1876), the Tuka Movement (1878–1891), the Seaqaqa War (1894), the Movement for Federation with New Zealand (1901–1903), the Viti Kabani Movement (1913–1917), and the various organized labor protests. The second half of the book addresses resistance manifested in the villages and plantations, including tax and land boycotts, violence and retributive justice, avoidance protest, petitioning, and women’s resistance. In their entirety these forms reveal a complex web of relationships between powerful and subordinate groups and among subordinate groups themselves. The author concludes that resistance cannot be framed as a totality but as a multilayered and multidimensional reality. In the wake of Fiji’s present volatile climate, this book will aid readers in understanding the continuities and disjunctures in Fiji’s interethnic and intraethnic relations.
Book Synopsis The Hill Tribes of Fiji by : Adolph Brewster Brewster
Download or read book The Hill Tribes of Fiji written by Adolph Brewster Brewster and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fiji written by David Stanley and published by David Stanley. This book was released on 2001 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Fiji handbook provides a thought-provoking introduction to Fiji's turbulent history, diverse population, and cultural riches. Travelers gain from seasoned traveler Stanley's extensive descriptions and evaluations of Fiji's lodgings, from luxury resorts to simple hotels on the beach. His comprehensive reporting of outdoor recreation makes it simple to locate the perfect activities, such as scuba diving, snorkeling, surfing, sailing, kayaking, hiking, camping, and golf.
Book Synopsis Neither Cargo Nor Cult by : Martha Kaplan
Download or read book Neither Cargo Nor Cult written by Martha Kaplan and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 postcolonial Fiji, Martha Kaplan examines the effects of narratives made real and traces a complex history that began neither as a search for cargo, nor as a cult. Engaging Fijian oral history and texts as well as colonial records, Kaplan resituates Tuka in the flow of indigenous Fijian history-making and rereads the archives for an ethnography of British colonizing power. Proposing neither unchanging indigenous culture nor the inevitable hegemony of colonial power, she describes the dialogic relationship between plural, contesting, and changing articulations of both Fijian and colonial culture. A remarkable enthnographic account of power and meaning, Neither Cargo nor Cult addresses compelling questions within anthropological theory. It will attract a wide audience among those interested in colonial and postcolonial societies, ritual and religious movements, hegemony and resistance, and the Pacific Islands.
Download or read book Turnings written by Brij V. Lal and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through Dr Lal's refreshingly clear and powerful prose and sharply observed stories, we enter the inner world of Indo-Fijian feeling and aspiration. One universal that emerges with particular clarity in the Indo-Fijian experience is the ceaseless struggle to find community in a changing world, balancing the beauty of ritual and tradition against the transcendent value of education and modern rationality. The volume poses the question of how people draw upon historical memory and immediate circumstances to create a social world, and how that world can be shared with others in multicultural society. The answer seems to lie somewhere between history and poetry, as in Dr Lal's 'factions'.
Book Synopsis Transactions of the Fijian Society by : Fijian Society
Download or read book Transactions of the Fijian Society written by Fijian Society and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geographic School Bulletins written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Koreri Messianic Movements in the Biak-Numfor Culture Area by : Freerk Ch. Kamma
Download or read book Koreri Messianic Movements in the Biak-Numfor Culture Area written by Freerk Ch. Kamma and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study developed out of the personal experience of daily life that I and my family had in the years 1932-1942 among the Biak speaking people of the Radja Ampat area (Sorong), West New Guinea. Our family had become integrated into the community as far as possible, and we used the Biak language every day. Three of the movements described in this book took place in that area, so that I was able to study them under the favorable conditions of direct participation and observation. The first edition of the book in 1954 (in Dutch) was the writer's doctoral thesis (Ph. D.), written under the guidance of the late Professor J. P. B. de Josselin de Jong. I am very grateful to the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthro pology, Leiden, for publishing the revised English edition in its Translation Series. The Biak material deserves more readers than the Dutch edition was able to reach.
