Neither Cargo Nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji by Martha Kaplan
Neither Cargo Nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji

Martha Kaplan

Neither Cargo Nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji

Martha Kaplan

248 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction politics

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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 superstitio...

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