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"We used to eat people": Revelations of a Fiji Islands Traditional Village Paperback - 2017

by R. M. Dixon

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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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  • Title "We used to eat people": Revelations of a Fiji Islands Traditional Village
  • Author R. M. Dixon
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 218
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McFarland and Company, Inc.
  • Date 2017-12-13
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9781476671819 / 1476671818
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.9 x 0.7 in (21.84 x 14.99 x 1.78 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Ethnology - Fiji, Fijian language
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017048643
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.800

About the author

R.M.W. Dixon is an anthropological linguist at James Cook University in Cairns, Australia. He has authored many books on linguistic theory, and grammars based on fieldwork in the Amazonian jungle, in the rainforest of north-east Australia, and in Fiji.

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