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"We used to eat people": Revelations of a Fiji Islands Traditional Village
Contributor(s): Dixon, R. M. W. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1476671818     ISBN-13: 9781476671819
Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
OUR PRICE: $20.99  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: December 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Adventurers & Explorers
- Foreign Language Study | Oceanic & Australian Languages
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
Dewey: 305.800
LCCN: 2017048643
Age Level: 18-UP
Grade Level: 13-UP
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.6" L (0.80 lbs) 218 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
 
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Living in a reed hut on Taveuni--the garden isle of Fiji--the author studied the native language and carefully observed their traditions until he was accepted as a (somewhat unusual) member of the village. Despite five cyclones the summer of 1985, daily life was idyllic. Cannibalism has been abandoned, reluctantly, at the behest of the new Christian God. But the old religion survived beneath the facade and priests danced naked on the beach beneath the full moon. The village pulsated with factions and feuds, resolved by the stern but benevolent chief, whose word was law. Legends told of a princess born as a bird, who was killed and thus became a comely maiden--but the murderer had to be cooked and eaten.
 
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