New white men without knowledge -- The assault on land rights -- The erosion of hereditary privilege -- The new politics of chiefly power -- The continuities of village life and politics -- Apolosi R. Nawai and the Viti Company -- The vein of discontent -- Compromise for a multiracial society -- The dilemmas of development -- Epilogue: rendezvous with modern world.
Summary
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.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-198).
Access
National edeposit: Available online with download restriction Unrestricted online access. star AU-CaNED
Language
English.
Note
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 17, 2020).
