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History of Fiji: Chiefs, Cannibals, and the Long Arrival of Strangers

by Kenny Sketch
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798249966478
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 154
  • Original Price: GBP 11.79
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 214 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Oceania

The history of Fiji begins with the settlement of Austronesian-speaking peoples over 3,000 years ago, who established complex chiefdoms across the archipelago. Society was organized around kinship, warfare, and ritual, with chiefs exercising authority over villages and islands. Early Fijian culture included beliefs and practices that shocked outsiders-most notoriously ritual cannibalism-but these were deeply intertwined with spirituality, social hierarchy, and notions of honor. Canoes, navigation, and intricate oral traditions connected islands and preserved knowledge long before European contact.

Europeans arrived gradually in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, bringing trade, Christianity, and colonial ambitions that disrupted traditional life. Missionaries, traders, and later British colonial administrators transformed Fiji politically, economically, and socially, introducing cash crops and importing laborers from India, which created the multicultural society present today. Despite colonization, Fijians preserved language, customs, and chiefly authority, blending old and new. Fiji's history is a story of resilience and adaptation, where chiefs, ritual, and the islanders' mastery of the sea shaped a culture that both astonished strangers and endured the tides of external influence.

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