Neither Cargo nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji PDF
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NEITHER CARGO NOR CULT NEITHER CARGO NOR CULT Ritual Politics andthe Colonial ImaginationinFiji MarthaKaplan DukeUniversityPress DurhamandLondon 1995 ©1995DukeUniversityPress Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmericaonacid-freepaper00 DesignedbyCherieHolmaWestmoreland TypesetinGalliardbyKeystoneTypesetting,Inc. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataappear onthelastprintedpageofthisbook. Tomyparents, LucilleandLawrenceKaplan CONTENTS ListofFigures ix Preface: NeitherCargonorCult xi Acknowledgments xvii 1 Introduction: Culture,History,andColonialism I 2 EmbattledPeopleoftheLand:TheRaSocialLandscape, 1840-1875 19 3 NavosavakaduaasPriestoftheLand 46 4 ColonialConstructionsofDisorder: Navosavakaduaas "DangerousandDisaffectedNative" 62 5 Navosavakadua'sRitualPolity 98 6 RoutinizingArticulatingSystems: JehovahandthePeople oftheLand, 1891-1940 123 7 NarrativesofNavosavakaduainthe1980sand1990S 160 8 NavosavakaduaamongtheVatukaloko 178 9 Conclusion: DoCultsExist?DoStatesExist? 201 Bibliography 21I Index 219 LIST OF FIGURES I.TheFijiIslands xii 2.VitiLevuIsland xiii 3.VitiLevuIsland: colonialboundariesmentionedintext xiii 4.NortheasternVitiLevu: 1873sketchbySwanston 20 5.NortheasternVitiLevuIsland 21 6.VatukalokoInlandSites: author'ssketch 21 7.VatukalokoChiefs 34 8.ChiefsofRakiraki 35 9.OriginsandRelationsoftheVatukaloko 152 10.RelationoftheEasternCoastalKingdomstotheVatukaloko 152 II.WivesandDescendantsofDegei 153 12.DescendantsofRokomoutuandHisSonVueti 154 13.DrauniiviVillageinthe I980s: author'ssketch 180
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