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Contact Timeline 

Abel Tasman wikipedia entry - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Tasman

Australian Explorers: Abel Tasman - http://www.ozedweb.com/history/oz_e_tasman.htm 

Fiji has been called the "crossroads of the South Pacific. ... In 1643, Abel
Tasman, a Dutch navigator, became the first European to see Fiji. ...
 The World Book Encyclopedia - Page 98 by World Book, Inc - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1994

 Islands of the South Pacific - Page 92
by Harry Luke, Harry Charles Joseph Luke - Islands of the Pacific - 1962 - 284 pages
Its first European visitor was Abel Tasman, who sighted several islands in 1643
... Bligh himself revisited Fiji after his return to the Pacific and Fijian ... [the Mutiny on the Bounty Bligh]

Captain Cook made his first voyage to South Seas aboard the Endeavour between 1768 - 1771 but did not visit Fiji

 Naturalist's South Pacific Expedition: Fiji - Page 22
by Otto Degener - Fijians - 1949 - 303 pages
No European missionaries took up residence in any of the Fiji Islands until 1835.
According to Laura Thompson, "For the next forty years, curiously enough, ...

In 1835, the missionaries arrived, introduced Christianity and ended cannibalism. In 1874, Fiji was ceded to Great Britain and Indian indentured labourers were introduced. Fiji finally gave independence in 1970 and declared itself a Republic on 7th October 1987.

Ethnographies and Histories

This is a larger list that is not focussed solely on healing practices

Thomas Williams and James Calvert. 1858. Fiji and the Fijians.
Table of Contents (Book can be downloaded as PDF)

Basil Thompson 1908.  The Fijians: A study of the decay of custom.
Table of Contents (Book can be downloaded as PDF)

Brewster, Adoph Brewster.  1922.  The hill tribes of Fiji. http://books.google.com/books?id=UjYNAAAAIAAJ&pgis=1 Ethnographic Photographs page - http://www.justpacific.com/fiji/fijiphotos/books/hilltribes/index.html?PHPSESSID=0522c40a8449ff6dbe60e898f9a64585

Arthur Maurice Hocart 1929.  Lau Islands, Fiji - http://books.google.com/books?id=NQIsAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1

Spencer, D.  1937.  Fijian dreams and visions.  In D. Davidson, ed., Twenty-fifth Anniversary Studies of the Philedelphia Anthropological Society.

Laura Thompson 1940a.  Southern Lau, Fiji: An ethnography. http://books.google.com/books?id=cOorAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1

Laura Thompson, Bronislaw Malinowski 1940b.  Fijian Frontier. http://books.google.com/books?id=0p8iAAAAMAAJ

Spencer, D. 1941.  Disease, religion and society in the Fiji Islands.

Derrick, Ronald Albert. 1946.  A history of Fiji. http://books.google.com/books?id=uP0FHQAACAAJ&dq=r+a+derrick+fiji&lr=

Quain, Buell Halvor.  1948.  Fijian village. http://books.google.com/books?id=76dXHgAACAAJ

Roth, George Kingsley. 1953.  Fijian way of life. http://books.google.com/books?id=Lza2AAAACAAJ&dq=g+k+roth+fiji (about GK Roth: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a723855880~db=all)

Sahlins, M. 1962.  Moala: Culture and nature on a Fijian Island. http://www.amazon.com/Moala-Culture-Nature-Fijian-Island/dp/B0007DNF7A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220448921&sr=1-1 http://books.google.com/books?id=NL00AAAAIAAJ&q=marshall+sahlins+moala&dq=marshall+sahlins+moala&lr=&pgis=1

Belshaw, Cyril S. 1964. Under the ivi tree: Society and economic growth in rural Fiji. http://www.amazon.com/Under-Ivi-Tree-Anthropology-Ethnography/dp/0415330513/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1220452711&sr=11-1"This study concerns the differentials of economic growth among the Fijian people. It brings together relevant factors drawn from social, cultural, economic and political analysis. As a case study in economic growth, it portrays the interplay between individuals and the social and economic conditions which surround them, and demonstrates the limitations of the institutions within which they function. Controversial points of interpretation are discussed and supported with documentation gathered from field-work. Originally published in 1964."TOC - http://books.google.com/books?id=-u3qtuAy1cEC&printsec=frontcover#PPR7,M1

Watters, Raymond Frederick 1969.  Koro: Economic development and social change in Fiji. http://books.google.com/books?id=CT9KAAAAMAAJ&q=r+f+watters+koro&dq=r+f+watters+koro&pgis=1

Arno, A. 1976.  Ritual of reconciliation and village conflict management in Fiji.  Oceania 47 (1):49-65

Rutz, Henry J. 1978. Ceremonial exchange and economic development in village Fiji.  Economic Development and Cultural Change 26(4):777-805.  - http://www.jstor.org/pss/1153545

Arno, A. 1980.  Fijian gossip as adjudication: A communication model of informal social control.  Journal of Anthropological Research 36(3):343-60

Knapman, Bruce and Walter, M. 1980.  The way of the land and the path of money: The generation of economic inequality in eastern Fiji.  Journal of Developing Areas 14(2):201-22

Herr,Barbara . 1981.  The expressive character of Fijian dream and nightmare experiences.  Ethos 9(4):331-52 http://www.jstor.org/pss/639914

M.M.W.Katz 1981.  "Gaining sense" in the outer Fiji Islands: A cross-cultural study of cognitive development.  Ph.D.diss., Harvard University.

Stewart, R. 1982a.  Human Development in the South Pacific: A book of readings.

Stewart, R. 1982b.  Us and them: Beliefs about human nature held by young people in the South Pacific.  Social Behavior and Personality 10(2):221-26

Lal, V. 1983.  Brij V Lal.  Girmitiyas: The Origins of the Fiji Indians (Canberra: The Journal of Pacific History, 1983)

M.M.W. Katz 1984.  Infant care in a group of outer Fiji islands.  Ecology of Food and Nutrition 15(4):323-40.

Basow, Susan. 1984. Ethnic group differences in educational achievement in Fiji.  Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 15(4):435-51

Lasaqa, Isreli . 1984. The Fijian people: Before and after independence. - http://books.google.com/books?id=BVVpAAAACAAJ&dq=lasaqa+fiji&lr=

Stewart, R. 1984. Cognitive, socio-cultural and institutional explanations for ethnic differences in academic achievement in Fiji. 

James West Turner 1984. "True food" and first fruits: Rituals of increase in Fiji.  Ethnology 23(2): 133-42. 

Sahlins 1985. Islands of History.  http://www.amazon.com/Islands-History-Marshall-Sahlins/dp/0226733580/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1220448487&sr=11-1 "Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands—Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand—whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western scholarship that creates false dichotomies between past and present, between structure and event, between the individual and society. Sahlins's provocative reflections form a powerful critique of Western history and anthropology." TOC - http://books.google.com/books?id=ScuTytmgE6MC&printsec=frontcover#PPR5,M1

Basow, Susan. 1986.  Correlates of sex-typing in Fiji.  Psychology of Women Quarterly 10(4):429-42.

Hickson, Letitia. 1986. The social context of apology in dispute settlement: A cross-cultural study.  Ethnology 25(4): 283-94.

James West Turner 1986.  The sins of the father: Rank and succession in a Fijian chiefdom.  Oceania 57(2):128-41

James West Turner 1986.  "The water of life": Kava ritual and the logic of sacrifice.  Ethnology 25(3): 203-14. - http://www.jstor.org/pss/3773584

James West Turner 1987.  Blessed to give and receive: Ceremonial exchange in Fiji.  Ethnology 26(3): 209-20. - http://www.jstor.org/pss/3773658

M.M. West 1988. Parental values and behavior in the outer Fiji Islands.  In R. A. Levine, P.M. Miller, and M.M. West, eds., Parental behavior in diverse societies. 

John Dunham Kelly. 1988. Fiji Indians and political discourse in Fiji: From the Pacific romance to the coups.  Journal of Historical Sociology.  1(4):399-422

Martha Kaplan 1988.  The coups in Fiji: Colonial contradictions and the post-colonial crisis.  Critique of Anthropology 8(3):93-116. 

Brij V Lal. 1988. Power and Prejudice: The Making of the Fiji Crisis (Wellington: New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, 1988).

Martha Kaplan 1989. "Luve ni wai" as the British saw it: Constructions of custom and disorder in colonial Fiji.  Ethnohistory 36(4): 349-71

Brij V Lal. 1990.  Fiji coups in paradise: Race,politics and military intervention.

Brij V Lal. 1992. Broken Waves: A history of the Fiji Islands in the 20th century (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992).

Brij V Lal. 1992. Pacific Islands History: Journeys and Transformations (ed) (Canberra: JPH Monograph, 1992)

Andrew Arno.  1993. The World of Talk on a Fijian Island: An Ethnography of Law and Communicative Causation. http://www.amazon.com/World-Talk-Fijian-Island-Communicative/dp/0893919616/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1220440649&sr=11-1 "This volume offers a theoretical exploration of the concept of the communication system as a tool of social inquiry. Focusing on the discourse of conflict management, Arno explores the linkage between everyday communication about conflict, through talk and other forms of message exchange among individuals and groups, and large-scale societal conflicts and the institutions that shape change by maintaining dominant forms of communicative causation (cause and effect in social situations). This volume also develops a theory of the relationship between conflict and communication that demands ethnography as a theoretical necessity." TOC - http://books.google.com/books?id=p4IKNHEQQBcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=arno+the+world+is+talk&sig=ACfU3U3pNxz8Ip0WLQTi81oal8V85rshhA#PPR7,M1

Anne E Becker.  1995.  Body, Self, and Society: The View from Fiji  TOC - http://books.google.com/books?id=VeyNOJjXXzcC&printsec=frontcover#PPR7,M1 

Martha Kaplan. 1995. Neither Cargo Nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji. http://www.amazon.com/Neither-Cargo-nor-Cult-Imagination/dp/0822315939/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1220444107&sr=11-1 "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 superstition that had to be stopped. Navosavakadua and many of his followers, deemed "dangerous and disaffected natives," were exiled. Scholars have since made Tuka the standard example of the Pacific cargo cult, describing it as a millenarian movement in which dispossessed islanders sought Western goods by magical means. In this study of colonial and postcolonial Fiji, Martha Kaplan examines the effects of narratives made real and traces a complex history that began neither as a search for cargo, nor as a cult.
Engaging Fijian oral history and texts as well as colonial records, Kaplan resituates Tuka in the flow of indigenous Fijian history-making and rereads the archives for an ethnography of British colonizing power. Proposing neither unchanging indigenous culture nor the inevitable hegemony of colonial power, she describes the dialogic relationship between plural, contesting, and changing articulations of both Fijian and colonial culture.
A remarkable enthnographic account of power and meaning, "Neither Cargo nor Cult" addresses compelling questions within anthropological theory. It will attract a wide audience among those interested in colonial and postcolonial societies, ritual and religious movements, hegemony and resistance, and the Pacific Islands." TOC - http://books.google.com/books?id=3ey0ms3khaAC&printsec=frontcover#PPP9,M1

James West Turner.  1997.  Continuity and Constraint: Reconstructing the Concept of Tradition from a Pacific Perspective.  The Contemporary Pacific, Vol. 9, 1997 - http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst?docId=96433945

Brij V Lal. 1997. A Vision for Change: AD Patel and the Politics of Fiji (Canberra: Asia Pacific Press, 1997).

Adrian Tanner. 1997. Bibliography of Fijian Society.  (AnthroGlobe) http://coombs.anu.edu.au/Biblio/biblio_fiji1.html

Christina Toren. 1999.  Mind, Materiality and History: Explorations in Fijian Ethnography. http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Materiality-History-Explorations-Historiography/dp/0415195772/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1220449630&sr=11-1 "Mind, Materiality and History: Explorations in Fijian Historiography is the outcome of over a decade's research into how Fijians live their lives and constitute their knowledge of the world. Through this exploration, the author aims to derive a new theory of embodied mind that works as well for explaining ourselves as it does for explaining others. Investigating the processes by which humans interact with the material world of objects and with other people, the book addresses the issue of how we form our identities in connection with, and in contrast to, the identities of those around us. Mind, Materiality and History demonstrates that the human mind is the fundamental historical phenomenon." TOC - http://books.google.com/books?id=imxBrOk-EAgC&printsec=frontcover#PPP8,M1

Richard Katz.  1999.  The Straight Path of the Spirit: Ancestral Wisdom and Healing Traditions in Fiji http://books.google.com/books?id=VGJlXFjFXLoC

Brij V Lal. 2000. Chalo Jahaji: On a journey of indenture through Fiji (Suva: Fiji Museum, 2000).

Brij V Lal. 2000. Pacific Islands: An Encyclopedia (ed). (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000).

Martha Kaplan and John Dunham Kelly. 2001.  Represented Communities: Fiji and World Decolonization. http://www.amazon.com/Represented-Communities-Fiji-World-Decolonization/dp/0226429903/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1220443774&sr=11-1 "In 1983 Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities revolutionized the anthropology of nationalism. Anderson argued that "print capitalism" fostered nations as imagined communities in a modular form that became the culture of modernity. Now, in Represented Communities, John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan offer an extensive and devastating critique of Anderson's depictions of colonial history, his comparative method, and his political anthropology. The authors build a forceful argument around events in Fiji from World War II to the 2000 coups, showing how focus on "imagined communities" underestimates colonial history and obscures the struggle over legal rights and political representation in postcolonial nation-states. They show that the "self-determining" nation-state actually emerged with the postwar construction of the United Nations, fundamentally changing the politics of representation. Sophisticated and impassioned, this book will further anthropology's contribution to the understanding of contemporary nationalisms." TOC - http://books.google.com/books?id=c1uHYjKHpxsC&printsec=frontcover#PPR6,M1

Deryck Scarr. 2001. A History of the Pacific Islands: Passages through Tropical Time - http://www.amazon.com/History-Pacific-Islands-Passages-Tropical/dp/0700712933/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1220440165&sr=11-1 "This is a book about the past and present Pacific Islands, wide-ranging in time and space. It spans the centuries from the first, pre-European, Melanesian and Polynesian settlement of Islands from New Guinea to Tahiti and Easter Island, until the present day.
Indigenous social, economic and political systems are examined and then the post-sixteenth-century European 'discovery' of the Pacific. Cultural, political, trading, social and personal exchanges in island worlds are analysed and described, from 1767 to the year 2000." TOC - http://books.google.com/books?id=xmtWaIpX-zYC&pg=RA1-PA184&lpg=RA1-PA184&dq=%22scented+coconut+oil%22&source=web&ots=X_6_W8i342&sig=xGkbq2E9v1rDDacKkzWWaNkeG34&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPR7,M1

Brij V Lal. 2001. Mr Tulsi's Store: A Fijian Journey (Canberra: Pandanus Books, 2001).

Patrick Vinton Kirch. 2002. On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands Before European Contact. http://books.google.com/books?id=qQ0ApgIOPtEC 

Matt Tomlinson. 2002. Sacred soil in Kadavu, Fiji - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3654/is_200206/ai_n9102991/pg_1?tag=artBody;col1

Brij V Lal. 2004. Pacific Places, Pacific Histories (ed) (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004)

Chris Kilham.  2006.  Kava, an Ethnomedical Review. U-Mass Teaching Notes 2000 - 2005. - http://www.erowid.org/plants/kava/kava_article1.shtml

Fijians

Rusiate Raibosa Nayacakalou 1978.  Tradition and Change in the Fijian Village
Rusiate Raibosa Nayacakalou. 1975.  Leadership in Fiji
Asela Ravuvu - The Fijian Way of Life
Saimoni Vatu (ed) 1976.  Na I Tuktuku Ni Tawa Vanua. Talking About Oral Traditions (Fiji Museum Oral Tradition Series, No 1)

Anthropologists with Web Presence

Andrew Arno - University of Hawaii at Manoa - http://www.anthropology.hawaii.edu/faculty/arno/ - selected writings from 1976-2005

Anne E Becker - Harvard Medical School - http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dsm/WorkFiles/html/people/faculty/AnneBecker.html

Cyril Shirley Belshaw - University of British Columbia (retired 1987) http://www.anthropologising.ca/ - wikipedia article - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Belshaw

Letitia Hickson - University of Hawaii at Manoa - http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis/people_7.html

Arthur Maurice Hocart (1883-1939) - wikipedia entry - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Maurice_Hocart 

Martha Kaplan - Vassar College - http://faculty.vassar.edu/makaplan/ publications from 1981-2005 - http://faculty.vassar.edu/makaplan/publications.html

John D Kelly - University of Chicago - http://anthropology.uchicago.edu/faculty/faculty_kelly.shtml publications from 1990-2006

Brij V Lal - Australian National University - http://rspas.anu.edu.au/people/personal/lalxb_pah.php

Buell Halvor Quain (1912-1939) Minnesota State University Bio page - http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/pqrst/quain_bell.html - Field Notes - http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!230239!0&term=#focus - wikipedia entry - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buell_Quain

Marshall David Sahlins - University of Chicago (retired 6/97) - http://anthropology.uchicago.edu/faculty/faculty_sahlins.shtml - wikipedia article - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Sahlins

Laura Thompson (1905-2000) - Register to the Papers of Laura Thompson by Joy Elizabeth Rohde - http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/fa/thompson.htm

Other Web Sites

Fiji Museum Online - Archive of Online Exhibitions - http://www.fijimuseum.org.fj/fm-archivexhib.htm 

“Memory of the World – The Pacific Perspective”: Communities and Memories : A Global Perspective. The 3rd International Conference of the UNESCO Memory of the World - http://www.amw.org.au/mow2008/mow/speakerPapers/TalePaper.pdf

Fiji Term Abroad: Fall Term 1997 - http://www.anthropology.union.edu/fiji/fjterm.htm (Union College Schenectady NY) "During fall term 1997, professors Brison and Leavitt accompanied three Union students on a trial anthropology term abroad in Fiji. Sarah Ahart, Debbie Cederbaum and Amber Johnston lived in separate villages in the Rakiraki area of Fiji's largest island of Viti Levu. They conducted basic ethnographic field research and carried out individual research projects of their own design. The research was sponsored in Fiji by the Ministry of Education. ... This web site has the complete text of the six papers written by the three students on the 1997 term abroad in Fiji. Each student wrote two papers."