Neither Cargo nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji.

From: The Contemporary Pacific | Date: March 22, 1997| Author: Ogan, Eugene | Copyright information

Neither Cargo nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji, by Martha Kaplan. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-8223-1593-9 (paper), xviii + 226 pages, figures, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, US$49.95; paper, US$15.95.

This book is an admirable addition to the growing number of Pacific Island histories that have been enriched by anthropological perspectives. Focusing on the nineteenth-century Fijian leader known as Navosavakad...

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