Gender Status

Burial Practices and Funerals

Mourning

Special Burial Practices and Funerals

Eschatology

Prayers and Sacrifices

Avoidance and Taboo

Topography and Geology

Flora

Acculturation and Culture Contact

Fowling

Fishing

Tillage

Vegetable Production

Diet

Urban and Rural Life

Weapons

External Trade

Labor Supply and Employment

Boats

Multi-Ethnic Community Relations

Form and Rules of Government

External Relations

Research and Development

Inheritance

Executive Household

1710

Cultural Revitalization and Ethnogenesis

Kin Relationships

Lineages

Clans

Inter-Community Relations

Sociocultural Trends

Status, Role, and Prestige

Social Relationships and Groups

Territorial Hierarchy

Political Movements

Military Organization

Material Not Relevant

Linguistic Identification

Missions

Bibliographies in Sources

General Character of Religion

Animism

Religious Denominations

Pharmaceuticals

Division of Labor by Gender

Theory of Disease

Medical Therapy

Humor

Dance

Naming

Gender Roles and Issues

Population

Composition of Population

Mortality

Traditional History

Social Control

Informal in-Group Justice

Legal Norms

Religious Offenses

Social Offenses

Real Property

Kinship Terminology

Avuncular and Nepotic Relatives

Water Transport

Taxation and Public Income

Historical Reconstruction

History

Chief Executive

Revolution

Community Structure

Land Use

Public Structures

Religious and Educational Structures

Settlement Patterns

Sacred Objects and Places

Basis of Marriage

Regulation of Marriage

Nuptials

Termination of Marriage

Residence

Polygamy

Identification

Place Names

Location

Internal Migration

Reviews and Critiques

Priesthood

Age Stratification

Household

Extended Families

Childhood Activities

Rest Days and Holidays

Organized Ceremonial

Etiquette

Status of Children

Techniques of Socialization

Transmission of Cultural Norms

Outbuildings

Family Relationships

Mats and Basketry

Felted and Other Non-Interworked Fabrics

Bone, Horn, and Shell Technology

Woodworking

Ceramic Technology

Shipbuilding

Utensils

CULTURE SUMMARY: BAU FIJIANS

ETHNONYMS

ORIENTATION

HISTORY AND CULTURAL RELATIONS

SETTLEMENTS

ECONOMY

KINSHIP

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION

RELIGION AND EXPRESSIVE CULTURE

CREDITS

IDENTIFICATION AND LOCATION

DEMOGRAPHY

LINGUISTIC AFFILIATION

SUBSISTENCE

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES

DIVISION OF LABOR

LAND TENURE

KIN GROUPS AND DESCENT

KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY

MARRIAGE

DOMESTIC UNIT

INHERITANCE

SOCIALIZATION

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION

SOCIAL CONTROL

CONFLICT

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

RELIGIOUS PRACTITIONERS

CEREMONIES

ARTS

MEDICINE

DEATH AND AFTERLIFE

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Originally from the mountains of Fiji’s largest island, Viti Levu, the Bau migrated to the east coast, and by the middle of the eighteenth century had established their political center on the tiny offshore island of Bau. Aided by an increasing availability of firearms during the early nineteenth century, and culminating with the defeat of rival Rewa by the Vunivalu (paramount chief) Cakobau in 1855, Bau became the dominant political power of Fiji. Bau chiefs commanded a formidable army and navy, collected large tributes, and mandated religious practices such as cannibalism and widow-strangling that shocked the missionaries who began arriving in 1839. In 1854 Cakobau converted to Christianity and renounced cannibalism. He reigned until nearly a decade after acceding to British colonial rule in 1874, which brought about administrative reorganization, and diminished the political power and customary prerogatives of Bau chiefs.

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