Our Wealth Is Loving Each Other - Self and Society in Fiji

Informationen zum Autor Karen J. Brison is associate professor of Anthropology at Union College. Klappentext BDOur Wealth Is Loving Each Other explores the fluid and context-bound nature of cultural and personal identity among indigenous Fijians. While national identity in Fiji is often defined in opposition to the West through reference to a romanticized pre-modern tradition, individual Fijians are often more concerned with defining their identity vis-^-vis other villagers and other groups within Fiji. When people craft self accounts to justify their position within the indigenous Fijian community they question and redefine both tradition and modernit Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction: Self and Society in Western Fiji Chapter 2 Defining the Community Through Ceremony Chapter 3 Constructing Self and Community Through Religious Discourse Chapter 4 Re-Imagining Sociocentrism Chapter 5 Imagining Modernity in Rakiraki Chapter 6 Crafting a Community Chapter 7 Imagining Identity Among Rakiraki Children Chapter 8 Conclusion: Identity in a "Postcultural" World

Product details

• Authors: Karen Brison, Karen J Brison, Karen J. Brison, Brison Karen J.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.2008
• EAN: 9780739114896
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-1489-6
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Lexington Books
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society & culture: general, Fiji, Society and culture: general, Anthropology;Social and Cultural Anthropology