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Fijian material culture: a study of cultural context, function, and change
Bishop Museum Press • (232) • Published In 1968 • Pages: vi, 193
By: Tippett, Alan R. (Alan Richard).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document discusses change and continuity in Fijian material culture (with particular emphasis on clubs, boats, turtle fishing nets, and houses) in order to explore the contexts in which the object belonged, the people who made and used them, and the institutions that gave them value. For example, clubs were extensively used not only as weapons of war, but also as sacred objects in times of peace. Likewise, boats and turtle fishing nets had both secular and sacred contexts. With the advent of Christianity and British colonialism, most of the artifacts lost their sacred functions. Consequently, war clubs were gradually replaced by imported guns, and traditional temples and other sacred places became sites for building churches.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Shipbuilding
- Boats
- Water transport
- Dwellings
- Architecture
- Building interiors and arrangement
- Sacred objects and places
- Avoidance and taboo
- Division of labor by gender
- Missions
- External trade
- External relations
- Cooperative organization
- Environmental quality
- Fishing
- Fishing gear
- Weapons
- Military organization
- Animism
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Ethos
- Warfare
- Aftermath of combat
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Bau Fijians
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Polynesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Missionary
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2017
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1941-1961
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1839-1961
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Fiji
- NotesAdditional notes
- Alan Richard Tippett
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-189)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 68022460
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Material culture--Fiji
- Fiji--Social life and customs