By Karen J. Brison
Our Wealth Is Loving one another explores the fluid and context-bound nature of cultural and private id between indigenous Fijians. whereas nationwide identification in Fiji is frequently outlined against the West via connection with a romanticized pre-modern culture, person Fijians are usually extra all in favour of defining their identification vis-^-vis different villagers and different teams inside Fiji. while humans craft self bills to justify their place in the indigenous Fijian group they query and redefine either culture and modernity. Modernity at the margins is an event of tension frightening contradictions among competing ideologies, and among overseas ideologies and native reports. Indigenous Fijians were uncovered to foreign ideologies and executive courses extolling the virtues of 'pre-modern' groups that position communal strong and time venerated culture over person achieve. yet different waves of coverage and rhetoric have under pressure person success and the necessity to 'shake' members out of neighborhood bonds to foster fiscal improvement. participants consider contradictory pressures to be independent, attaining participants and to subordinate self to group and culture. Brison examines conventional kava ceremonies, evangelical church rhetoric, and person existence historical past narratives, to teach how participants draw on a repertoire of narratives from neighborhood and overseas tradition to outline their id and feel of self. Our Wealth is Loving one another is suitable for top point scholars and a person with an curiosity in Fiji or anthropology.
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