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Fijian Colonial Experience

Author

MacNaught, Timothy J.

Year

2016

Publisher

ANU Press

Type

BOOK

Category

History

Language

English

Pages

217

ISBN

978-1-92193-436-0

Link

Last Update

09-Sep-2024

Keywords

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism

Description

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.

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