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Kelly, Evadne. "The Political and Religious Tensions of Fijian Dance in Canada: Renegotiating Identity Through Affect." Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings 2014 (2014): 106–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cor.2014.14.
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Recent performances ofmeke, a “traditional” Fijian song-dance genre, in Canada indicate a renegotiation of identity among Fijians in diasporic communities. However, due to religious and political anxieties involving Fiji's colonial history, not all Fijians in Canada will participate inmeke. To explore this, I draw from archival research and fieldwork conducted in Western Canada and Viti Levu, Fiji (2011–2012). Additionally, I take inspiration from the anthropological theory of affect, whereby the body has the ability to be affected (to feel/sense) and to affect others (causing others to feel/sense). I argue that experiences and expressions of powerful feeling states in and surroundingmekeperformance are important in terms of renegotiating Fiji's past colonial and present post-independence realities while negotiating new connections and relations in multicultural Canada.
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Duncan, Lynda. "Coup editorial content: Analysis of the Fiji 2000 political crisis." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 8, no. 1 (June 1, 2002): 10–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v8i1.727.
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Both the Fiji Times and the Daily Post reinforced the colonial myth that Fijian chiefs are the rightful rulers of Fiji, emphasising that Fiji, and this presumably means Fijians, was not ready for a multiracial constitution.
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Siegel, Jeff. "How to get a laugh in Fijian: Code-switching and humor." Language in Society 24, no. 1 (March 1995): 95–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s004740450001842x.
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ABSTRACTCode-switching from the Fijian language into a variety of Hindi is commonly used for joking among indigenous Fijians. Examples of this codeswitching are described here, and its role in Fijian joking relationships is outlined. A survey of code-switching used for humor in other societies shows that code-switching may be a signal for joking, that the switching itself may be considered humorous, and that the variety to which one switches may be used for humorous mockery or parody. Three different psychological approaches to the study of humor throw some light on why code-switching into Hindi is funny to Fijians. A final discussion examines code-switching in relation to both unintegrated borrowing and style-shifting. (Code-switching, borrowing, humor, joking, Fijian, Hindi)
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Ramesh, Sanjay. "Ethnocracy and Post-Ethnocracy in Fiji." Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 8, no. 3 (November 30, 2016): 115–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ccs.v8i3.5185.
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Fiji’s history is interspersed with ethnic conflict, military coups, new constitutions and democratic elections. Ethnic tensions started to increase in the 1960s and reached its peak with violent indigenous Fijian ethnic assertion in the form of military coups in 1987. Following the coup, the constitution adopted at independence was abrogated and a constitution that provided indigenous political hegemony was promulgated in 1990. However, by 1993, there were serious and irreparable divisions within the indigenous Fijian community, forcing coup leader Sitiveni Rabuka to spearhead a constitution review. The result of the review was the multiracial 1997 Constitution which failed to resolve deep seated ethnic tensions, resulting in another nationalist coup in 2000 and a mutiny at the military barracks in December of that year. Following the failed mutiny, the Commander of the Republic of the Fiji Military Forces, Voreqe Bainimarama, publicly criticised nationalist policies of the government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase, culminating in another military coup in 2006. The new military government started plans to de-ethnise the Fijian state and promulgated a constitution that promoted ethnic equality.Post independence Fiji is characterised by these conflicts over ethnocracy. The ethnic hegemony of indigenous Fijian chiefs is set against inter-ethnic counter hegemony. While democratic politics encourages inter-ethic alliance-building, the ethnic hegemony of the chiefs has been asserted by force. Latterly, the fragmentation of the ethnic hegemony has reconfigured inter-ethnic alliances, and the military has emerged as a vehicle for de-ethnicisation. The article analyses this cyclical pattern of ethnic hegemony and multiethnic counter hegemony as a struggle over (and against) Fijian ethnocracy.
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Varani-Norton, Eta. "Vakatoka Yaca (Naming) method: critiquing the Tukutuku Raraba, colonial histories of Fijian tribes." AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 17, no. 2 (June 2021): 145–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/11771801211018225.
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This article uses a new research method to assess the veracity of the official historical record of a Fijian vanua (Fijian tribe and its land), an example of narratives recorded during colonial times to identify land ownership and chiefly titles among the Indigenous Fijians. The colonial narratives of history continue to be the major resource for official resolution of local disputes about land and titles despite widespread Fijian distrust of their reliability. New historical research employing the Vakatoka Yaca (Naming) method reveals major inconsistencies in the official history of the author’s vanua that demonstrate the need for revisions of this official narrative, and perhaps reviews of the histories of other vanua.
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Dearie, Catherine, Shamieka Dubois, David Simmons, Freya MacMillan, and Kate A. McBride. "A Qualitative Exploration of Fijian Perceptions of Diabetes: Identifying Opportunities for Prevention and Management." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 7 (March 27, 2019): 1100. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16071100.
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Rates of diabetes are high in many communities of Pacific Island peoples, including people from Fiji. This qualitative study explores knowledge and attitudes towards diabetes among i-Taukei Fijians to facilitate the cultural tailoring of diabetes prevention and management programs for this community. Fijians aged 26 to 71 years (n = 15), residing in Australia, participated in semi-structured interviews; 53% (n = 8) were male. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, then thematically analyzed. Diabetes is recognized as an important and increasing health problem requiring action in the i-Taukei Fijian community. Widespread support for culturally appropriate lifestyle interventions utilizing existing societal structures, like family networks and church groups, was apparent. These structures were also seen as a crucial motivator for health action. Intervention content suggestions included diabetes risk awareness and education, as well as skills development to improve lifestyle behaviors. Leveraging existing social structures and both faith and family experiences of diabetes within the Fijian community may help convert increased awareness and understanding into lifestyle change. Ongoing in-community support to prevent and manage diabetes was also regarded as important. We recommend building upon experience from prior community-based interventions in other high-risk populations, alongside our findings, to assist in developing tailored diabetes programs for Fijians.
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Rutz, Henry J. "Capitalizing on Culture: Moral Ironies in Urban Fiji." Comparative Studies in Society and History 29, no. 3 (July 1987): 533–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417500014717.
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To an historian or anthropologist familiar with land problems in Fiji, nothing would have been less predictable than the urban discontents over land rights since independence, for these disturbances, in an ethnically plural society whose colonial history is marked by hostility between Indians and Fijians, were among the Fijians themselves. During the whole of the colonial period, from cession of the islands to Britain in 1874 to independence in 1970, the coexistence of Europeans, Indians (first imported as indentured labor), and Fijians had been forged out of land law. Successive colonial administrations labored for four decades around the turn of the century to secure for Fijians a precapitalist system of property rights that would become a bulwark against encroachment by a white planter and settler community. The system “by law established” subsequently became the basis for hostility between several generations of rural Fijian landowners and a growing number of landless Indian peasants. By the time self-government arrived in the mid-1960s, Indian access to land and Fijian resistance thereto was the most important issue threatening the stability of the new state, and government-commissioned reports and legislative acts pointed to this conflict of interest as the most significant problem for an independent Fiji. But the authoritative history written from commission reports and based on administrative policy often conceals another history, that formed by the experience of everyday life, where opposed groups confront each other over interests not always visible to legislators and judges, and often less so to scholarly observers.
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Hendriks, Anna-Marie, Mere Y. Delai, Anne-Marie Thow, Jessica S. Gubbels, Nanne K. De Vries, Stef P. J. Kremers, and Maria W. J. Jansen. "Perspectives of Fijian Policymakers on the Obesity Prevention Policy Landscape." BioMed Research International 2015 (2015): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/926159.
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In Fiji and other Pacific Island countries, obesity has rapidly increased in the past decade. Therefore, several obesity prevention policies have been developed. Studies show that their development has been hampered by factors within Fiji’s policy landscape such as pressure from industry. Since policymakers in the Fijian national government are primarily responsible for the development of obesity policies, it is important to understand their perspectives; we therefore interviewed 15 policymakers from nine Fijian ministries. By applying the “attractor landscape” metaphor from dynamic systems theory, we captured perceived barriers and facilitators in the policy landscape. A poor economic situation, low food self-sufficiency, power inequalities, inappropriate framing of obesity, limited policy evidence, and limited resource sharing hamper obesity policy developments in Fiji. Facilitators include policy entrepreneurs and policy brokers who were active when a window of opportunity opened and who strengthened intersectoral collaboration. Fiji’s policy landscape can become more conducive to obesity policies if power inequalities are reduced. In Fiji and other Pacific Island countries, this may be achievable through increased food self-sufficiency, strengthened intersectoral collaboration, and the establishment of an explicit functional focal unit within government to monitor and forecast the health impact of policy changes in non-health sectors.
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Maclellan, Nic. "From Fiji to Fallujah: The war on Iraq and the privatisation of Pacific security." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 12, no. 2 (September 1, 2006): 47–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v12i2.862.
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Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, private security companies from the United Kingdom and United States have been seeking personnel for their operations in the Middle East, and many hundreds of Fijians have signed up. The privatisation of security, a growing trend in the Middle East and Africa, has reached the shores of the South Pacific and governments have little control over former army personnel employed by private military contractors. This article documents the recruitment of Fijian military personnel for service in Iraq and Kuwait, and the casualties that they have faced. The engagement of former military personnel as private military contractors has spilt over into the Pacific as well—from the 1997 Sandline crisis to current events in Bougainville. Since November 2005, the governments of Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands have tried to resolve a crisis caused by the presence of former Fijian soldiers in Bougainville.
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Matsen Neal, Jerusha. "Exodus or Exile: Hermeneutic Shifts in a Shifting Fijian Methodist Church." International Journal of Homiletics 2, no. 1 (July 19, 2017): 16–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.21827/ijh.2017.39432.
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Over the past 30 years, the effects of globalization, climate change and multiple military coups have reshaped the Fijian landscape. The “lines in the sand” around issues of land ownership, rising tides and Fijian identity have complicated the relationship between the Fijian Methodist Church and the land which grounds its culture. The historical fissures between the majority Methodist indigenous church and Fiji’s large Hindu population continue to place the rights of first peoples in tension with rights of ethnic and religious minorities, even as the country’s secular government stresses the possibility of harmony. In recent years, the church’s primary responses to these demographic, political and environmental changes have been homiletic and hermeneutic. In spite of declining membership and reduced political influence, the church’s present experience has been re-read as a “New Exodus” journey toward a promised land. This theme of “New Exodus” has become a dominant trope in sermons, church education events and Fijian Methodist self-understanding. A more complicated hermeneutic, however, mines the biblical theme of exile to describe the current situation. In iTaukei (indigenous Fijian) understanding, the ‘vanua,’ or land, connotes the traditional culture of those who live on that land. As change impacts the culture of indigenous village life, the land itself is understood to change. Though 80% of Fijian land is tribally held, many Fijian Methodists experience the land on which they have lived for generations as suddenly unfamiliar. My paper will explore these disparate biblical readings of the Fijian Methodist experience through a homiletic analysis of four Fijian sermons, pointing to the importance of pulpit rhetoric in creating new conceptions of place and direction in a world where familiar markers are washing away.
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Geraghty, Paul. "Talking the wrong talk?" Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 7, no. 1 (September 1, 2001): 164–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v7i1.721.
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If a serious commitment were made to produce a quality Fijian daily, I don't doubt that it would soon outsell all the English ones. Next time anyone in the Fiji media suggests that a major problem today is that the Fijian people are so ill-informed, maybe they should question the Fiji media.
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Taylor, Robin. "Linguistic Relativity in Fiji: A Preliminary Study." South Pacific Journal of Psychology 9 (1997): 69–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0257543400001176.
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AbstractThere is a lack of experimental support for Linguistic Relativity Theory (LRT), which has not been tested in a South Pacific context. Fifty-two bilingual male (n = 26) and female Fijians read, and answered survey questions on the family dilemma, “An Unwanted Child?” - one group functioning in English and the other in Fijian. The group reading and answering in Fijian tended to place more emphasis on the rights of the extended family, whereas the group reading and responding in English placed more emphasis on the rights of the individual. These preliminary findings are consistent with LRT theory, and form the basis for more extended study, including perhaps a wider range of dilemmas and linguistic abilities (e.g., Fijians living in Australia).
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Hopf, Suzanne Catherine, Sharynne Lindy McLeod, Sarah H. McDonagh, and Epenisa N. Rakanace. "Communication Disability in Fiji: Community Cultural Beliefs and Attitudes." Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development 28, no. 1 (May 23, 2017): 112–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5463/dcid.v1i1.600.
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Purpose: Beliefs about communication disability vary according to the cultural context, and influence people’s attitudes and help-seeking behaviour. Little is known about Fijians with communication disability or the communities in which they live, and specialist services for people with communication disability are yet to be established in Fiji. An understanding of Fijian beliefs about the causes of communication disability and attitudes towards people with communication disability may inform future service development.Method: An interpretivist qualitative research paradigm and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) framework informed this project’s design. Scenarios of adults and children with communication disability were presented to 144 participants, randomly sampled across multiple public spaces in two Fiji cities. Thematic analysis of responses to 15 survey questions revealed participant beliefs about the causes and attitudes towards people with communication disability.Results: Three clusters describing perceived causes emerged from the analysis - internal, external, and supernatural. Major clusters across child and adult scenarios were similar; however, response categories within the scenarios differed. Community attitudes to people with communication disability were predominantly negative. These community attitudes influenced individual participants’ beliefs about educational and employment opportunities for Fijians with communication disability.Conclusion: Determination and acknowledgement of individuals’ belief systems informs development of culturally appropriate intervention programmes and health promotion activities.Implications: Speech-language pathologists and other professionals working with Fijian communities should acknowledge community belief systems and develop culturally-specific health promotion activities, assessments, and interventions.
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Martinez-Ruiz, Adrian, Rita Krishnamurthi, Ekta Singh Dahiya, Reshmi Rai-Bala, Sanjalin Naicker, Susan Yates, Claudia Rivera Rodriguez, et al. "Diagnostic Accuracy of 10/66 Dementia Protocol in Fijian-Indian Elders Living in New Zealand." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 9 (May 3, 2021): 4870. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18094870.
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The 10/66 dementia protocol was developed as a language and culture-fair instrument to estimate the prevalence of dementia in non-English speaking communities. The aim of this study was to validate the 10/66 dementia protocol in elders of Indian ethnicity born in the Fiji Islands (Fijian-Indian) living in New Zealand. To our knowledge, this is the first time a dementia diagnostic tool has been evaluated in the Fijian-Indian population in New Zealand. We translated and adapted the 10/66 dementia protocol for use in in Fijian-Indian people. Individuals (age ≥ 65) who self-identified as Fijian-Indian and had either been assessed for dementia at a local memory service (13 cases, eight controls) or had participated in a concurrent dementia prevalence feasibility study (eight controls) participated. The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and Youden’s index were obtained by comparing the 10/66 diagnosis and its sub-components against the clinical diagnosis (reference standard). The 10/66 diagnosis had a sensitivity of 92.3% (95% CI 70.3–99.5), specificity of 93.8% (95% CI 75.3–99.6), positive predictive value of 92.3% (95% CI 70.3–99.5), and negative predictive value of 93.8% (95% CI 75.3–99.6). The study results show that the Fijian-Indian 10/66 dementia protocol has adequate discriminatory abilities to diagnose dementia in our sample. This instrument would be suitable for future dementia population-based studies in the Fijian-Indian population living in Aotearoa/New Zealand or the Fiji-Islands.
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Tarai, Jope. "Unpacking Fiji internet law narratives: Online safety or online regulation?" Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 24, no. 2 (November 2, 2018): 84–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v24i2.443.
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Commentary: It took approximately 6 seconds, with 27 votes against 14 on the 16 May 2018 at 5:03pm for the Fiji Parliament to pass the Online Safety Bill (Fijian Parliament, 2018b). Thereafter, the Bill came into force as the Online Safety Act, 2018 (Fijian Government, 2018), despite concerns about its impact on free speech. This commentary examines how the public was conditioned by certain prominent actors, such as the Attorney-General and Media Industry Development Authority (MIDA) chair, with support from government-aligned media. The Online Safety Bill had been touted as legislation designed to protect Fijians from harmful online activities (Doviverata, 2018; Nacei, 2018). However, the Bill’s implementation was preceded by a set of supportive media-facilitated narratives that seems almost too convenient. This commentary scrutinises the series of media facilitated narratives that justified the Online Safety Act. The discussion briefly examines the connection between the media, blogs and social media in Fiji. It then explores the media facilitated narratives to provide a brief critique of the Act as a so-called ‘Trojan Horse’ for safety while risking responsible political free speech. Finally, it seeks to answer whether it is about online ‘Safety’ alone, or ‘Regulation’ of online media.
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L. Burns, Emma, Brian H. Costello, and Bronwyn A. Houlden. "Three evolutionarily significant units for conservation in the iguanid genus Brachylophus." Pacific Conservation Biology 12, no. 1 (2006): 64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc060064.
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We examined phylogenetic relationships within the genus Brachylophus, which comprises two endangered iguana species endemic to the South Pacific islands of Fiji and Tonga. Genetic variation among Fijian Crested Iguanas B. vitiensis and Fijian and Tongan Banded Iguanas B. fasciatus was analysed using mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) cytochrome b (cyt b) characterized from 35 individuals from island populations. Three distinct clades of Brachylophus were identified. The most divergent clade comprised B. fasciatus from Tonga, which supports the recognition of Tongan iguanas as a separate species. Molecular clock estimates suggested that the average sequence divergence (6.4%) between Tongan and Fijian B. fasciatus clades equated to 7 - 15.8 MY of separation, confirming that extant Brachylophus species have a long history of evolution in situ in the Fijian and Tongan archipelago. Phylogenetic analyses also revealed that Fijian B. fasciatus and B. vitiensis iguana populations were not reciprocally monophyletic. One clade comprised two mtDNA haplotypes from the Fijian islands of Monu, Monuriki, Devuilau, Waya and Yadua Taba. The other clade comprised B. fasciatus haplotypes from Kadavu and Gau, which was divergent from both the aforementioned Fijian clade (dA = 3.5%), and the Tongan clade (dA = 6.4%). In addition to mtDNA data, variation was assessed at microsatellite loci, and significant differentiation between iguana populations was detected. Based on both mtDNA and microsatellite analysis, the conservation priorities for these endangered lizards must be reassessed to protect iguanas as three distinct evolutionarily significant units.
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Gill, Kuldip. "Conflict & Cooperation in the Development of a Hospital Auxiliary in Fiji." Practicing Anthropology 12, no. 1 (January 1, 1990): 8–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.12.1.t464mv8361r181n6.
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In 1985-86, I conducted anthropological research in Fiji on health care strategies of Indo-Fijian women. The work was carried out in a cane-growing settlement, in a market-vegetable settlement, and a 56-bed sub-divisional hospital in Fiji's Western Division. In this paper I present a portion of that research concerning the development of a Hospital Auxiliary in terms of the moral and personal predicaments with which I battled in the course of the study.
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Cammock, Radilaite, Cath Conn, and Shoba Nayar. "Strengthening Pacific voices through Talanoa participatory action research." AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 17, no. 1 (February 19, 2021): 120–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1177180121996321.
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Approaches to health and social research and development in the Pacific are dominated by Eurocentric frameworks that fail to reflect the region’s ethnic diversity and inherent cultural knowledge and belief systems. We aimed to advance innovative, indigenous methodology with a focus on youth voice and transformative approaches that contribute to a decolonising and sustainable model of development. Talanoa—a Pacific framework for communicating and connecting—and participatory action research were adapted to create a unique Pacific “action cycle” focused on providing opportunities to (a) hear from fruit and vegetable young entrepreneurs and (b) foster healthy and sustainable food systems among young entrepreneurs in Suva, Fiji. A Fijian worldview helped to centralise Fijian concepts of knowledge enquiry and research. This article describes the way in which Pacific Talanoa can be incorporated within a Fijian epistemological paradigm for research and development undertaken in the Fijian context.
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Pridmore, Saxby, Kim Ryan, and Leigh Blizzard. "Victims of Violence in Fiji." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 29, no. 4 (December 1995): 666–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00048679509064983.
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Objective: The aim of the paper is to examine the statistics for violence performed by self or others in Fiji during the period 1969–1989 in the following sub-classifications: (1) fatal vs non-fatal; (2) Fijian vs Indian; and (3) male vs female. Method: Crude rates per 100,000 were determined and the data sets were statistically examined. Results: (1) Violence by self, which includes suicide and non-fatal injury by self, has significantly increased; (2) Indian violence by self has increased in both males and females; (3) suicide is 4 times more common than homicide, whereas non-fatal injury by others is 4 times more common than non-fatal injury by self; (4) non-fatal injury by self is 8 times more common than suicide, whereas non-fatal injury by others is over 100 times more common than homicide; (5) Indian violence by self is 6 times more common than Fijian violence by self, whereas Fijians experience violence by others 2.5 times more commonly than Indians; (6) female violence by self is 1.5 times more common than male violence by self, whereas male violence by others is 3 times more common than female violence by others; (7) the rates of suicide and homicide are low by international standards; and (8) Fijian violence by self is particularly low, but consistent with the low suicide rate of the indigenous populations in surrounding geographical regions. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that racial differences in violence are likely to be due to cultural factors.
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Frodey, Carol, and Yamini Naidu. "Pure Fiji Export Limited: A Skin Care Company In Harmony With Nature And Culture." Journal of Business Case Studies (JBCS) 4, no. 2 (June 27, 2011): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/jbcs.v4i2.4753.
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Pure Fiji is a privately-held, Fijian-owned company providing quality, USA niche market, botanical skin care products, while passionately concerned for the local environment and development of rural women in Fiji. This paper explores the companys success factors and its contribution to local development, while establishing a profitable, rapidly growing company with an international reputation for its environmentally friendly, botanical products targeted at the rich and famous, particularly in the USA. The paper also explores Pure Fijis international expansion approach, which is cautious and based on careful supplier selection and relationship management.
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Moala, Jale. "Copy versus custom." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 7, no. 1 (September 1, 2001): 29–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v7i1.698.
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The coup polarised the races in Fiji— or so it seemed, thus creating a situation in which many reporters found it difficult to focus on the issues from a totally impartial point of view. They were swept away by the euphoria of the moment and the tension and the emotion that charged the event. This was true of both indigenous Fijian and Indo-Fijian reporters.
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Prasad, Vishwa Hamendra, Vishal Deepak Sharma, Shabnam Sazma Bano, and Melvin Nitesh Chand. "Corporate governance and economic performance: A case study of the developing country." Corporate Governance and Organizational Behavior Review 6, no. 2 (2022): 8–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cgobrv6i2p1.
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This paper examines principle-based corporate governance (CG) and the economic performance of the Fijian economy. A comprehensive study for three public cooperations, namely the National Bank of Fiji (NBF), Fiji Sugar Cooperation (FSC), and Fiji National Provident Fund (FNPF), is undertaken. The economic assessment of the Fijian economy exists from the period 2017 to 2021, and immense discussion related to the GDP growth rate and export markets has been conducted. The research paper adopts a case study method, and reference has been made to company reports and existing literature to conclude on the compliance of CG virtues. The findings reveal that FNPF, NBF, and FSC experienced corporate collapse due to deficiencies, deception, and improper CG practice. The failure of NBF was a major blow on the Fijian economy, while large losses from FSC imposed risk on the stakeholders of the sugar industry. FNPF had also managed to overcome the write-off of 2010 with the help of good CG, but the wrong decisions by the relevant authorities had created fear among the retirement savers. The selected cooperations reveal important lessons for other Fijian companies. Although the research does not determine the CG index or compare the practice of CG between public and private firms, the achieved results point out the need to make companies follow the principles of CG and train personnel to instil ethical behaviours, transparency, and accountability
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Geraghty, Paul. "Literacy and the media in the Fiji Islands." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 11, no. 1 (April 1, 2005): 48–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v11i1.830.
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In a previous article in this journal (Geraghty 2001), I pointed out that while Fijian and Fiji Hindi are by far the most commonly used language in everyday interaction in Fiji, the language of the media is almost exclusively English. There are historical reasons for this, but now that colonialism is past, nominally at least, the question arises as to whether it is possible to promote vernacular media that more accurately reflect actual language use, and hence better serve the people of Fiji. In this commentary, I point to the potential problems with vernacular media in Fiji, specifically Fijian, and suggest ways to improve them.
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Schutz, Albert J. "Fijian Accent." Oceanic Linguistics 38, no. 1 (June 1999): 139. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3623396.
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McCarthy, Stephen. "Soldiers, chiefs and church: unstable democracy in Fiji." International Political Science Review 32, no. 5 (November 2011): 563–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192512111418775.
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The qualities of democracy in Fiji are strongly influenced by ethnic divisions and indigenous sources of power and legitimacy in society. Periods of constitutional democracy interrupted by successive coups garnering conflicting support suggest that a more stable Fijian democracy requires a delicate balance of tribal, religious, ethnic and military interests. Successful democratic and governance reform requires the inclusive deliberation of all major groups in civil and political society, and not merely one that purports to represent all. Only by improving the qualities of democracy in Fiji will Fijian politics emerge from its cycle of coups and offer a more stable form of government.
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Tent, Jan. "Yod deletion in Fiji English: Phonological shibboleth or L2 English?" Language Variation and Change 13, no. 2 (July 2001): 161–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394501132035.
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It is not difficult to find grammatical and lexical markers of Fiji English. But are there any phonological features that identify an individual as a speaker of this regional variety of English? For the vast majority of Fiji Islanders, English is their second (or third) language, and their accents clearly identify their linguistic background (e.g., indigenous Fijian or Indo-Fijian). However, one pronunciation feature seems to be shared by a vast majority of speakers of English in Fiji: the deletion of yod in non-primary stressed /Cju/ syllables. This article considers variation in yod pronunciation according to ethnicity, age, gender, and education and examines whether yod deletion is a phonological shibboleth of Fiji English or merely a feature of L2 English.
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Thomas, Nicholas. "Sanitation and Seeing: The Creation of State Power in Early Colonial Fiji." Comparative Studies in Society and History 32, no. 1 (January 1990): 149–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417500016364.
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British rule in the former Crown Colony of Fiji was a paradoxical affair in several ways. The first Governor, Sir Arthur Gordon, had been shocked by the dispossession of the New Zealand Maori and was determined to subordinate settler interests in Fiji to those of the indigenous population. From the time of cession by a group of paramount chiefs in 1874, administrative policies and structures aimed to defend, protect, and institutionalize the traditional Fijian communal system. For example, what were thought to be traditional chiefly privileges, such as rights to produce, were legally enshrined and articulated with an indirect rule system of appointed village, district, and provincial chiefs. Land was made the inalienable property of clan groups of certain types (which Fijians were obliged to create where they did not already exist).
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James, Kieran, and Yogesh Nadan. "Gesturing Elsewhere and Offshore Memory: Amateur Elite Soccer in the Fiji Islands, 1980–1992." Sport History Review 52, no. 1 (May 1, 2021): 22–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/shr.2020-0001.
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This article studies the amateur elite National Soccer League in the Fiji Islands from 1980 to 1992 and the Fiji national team's landmark 1–0 win over Australia in 1988. The authors use the theoretical idea of “gesturing elsewhere,” taken from the work of popular music scholar Emma Baulch, to explain how the local Fiji soccer community receives its meaning and identity largely as the local-outpost or chapter of the global soccer scene. Therefore, a victory over the sporting powerhouse Australia boosts the self-image of the Fiji soccer world by temporarily upturning the established hierarchies. The shock 1988 win saw Fiji assigned extra credibility in the global context. The authors also look at the Indo-Fijian (Fijians of Indian decent) emigrant communities of the West and argue that, through their ongoing love of Fiji soccer, they play a role akin to offshore memory or offshore library, cataloging past history and revering past stars and classic contests.
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Sami, Janesh. "Random Walk Hypothesis for Stock Prices in Fiji." Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting 13, no. 2 (September 20, 2021): 79–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ajfa.v13i2.14674.
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The main goal of this paper is to investigate the random walk hypothesis in Fiji using monthly data from January 2000 to October 2017. Applying augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF 1979, 1981) and Phillips-Perron (1988), Zivot-Andrews (1992), and Narayan and Popp (2010) unit root tests, this study finds that stock prices is best characterized as non-stationary. The estimated multiple structural break dates in the stock prices corresponds with devaluation of Fijian dollar by 20 percent in 2009 and General Elections in September 2014, which Fiji First Party won by majority votes. The empirical results indicate that stock prices are best characterized as a unit root (random walk) process, indicating that the weak-form efficient market hypothesis holds in Fiji’s stock market. Hence, it will be difficult to predict future returns based on historical movement of stock prices in Fiji’s stock market.
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Eti-Tofinga, Buriata, Heather Douglas, and Gurmeet Singh. "Influence of evolving culture on leadership: a study of Fijian cooperatives." European Business Review 29, no. 5 (August 14, 2017): 534–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ebr-10-2015-0122.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how leadership is shaped by a changing cultural context. Design/methodology/approach This is an exploratory study based on semi-structured interviews with leaders of Fijian cooperatives. Findings The political and cultural environment in Fiji has changed over time, and these changing arrangements shape expectations of what is considered to be appropriate leadership in Fijian cooperatives. To be consistent with changing societal values, leaders of Fijian cooperatives employ a context-sensitive hybrid leadership style in which legitimacy is an important dimension. Research implications Researchers need to examine the cultural context as a dynamic influencing element of leadership. Practical implications Leaders of cooperatives and similar values-based organizations would benefit from applying a legitimate and context-sensitive hybrid leadership style. Originality/value This study contributes new understandings of the cultural influences on organizational leadership.
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Cass, Philip. "REVIEW: How Fijians served Britain’s Army." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 25, no. 1&2 (July 31, 2019): 309–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v25i1and2.504.
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212 Soldiers for the Queen: Fijians in the British Army 1961-1997, by David Tough. West Geelong, Victoria: Barralier Book. 360pp. ISBN 9780648355212.WHEN MIKA Vuidravuwalu was asked why he enlisted in the British Army in 1961, he replied: ‘Experience, put on the British Army uniform, and fight for the red, white and blue.’ He added that his brother had served with Fijian forces against the Japanese in the Solomons. Vuidravuwaluwa was one of 212 Fijians who eagerly signed up when the British Army, short of soldiers and specialists, sought recruits from the colonies.
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Waqa-Sakiti, Hilda V. F., Simon Hodge, and Linton Winder. "Distribution of long-horn beetles (Cerambycidae: Coleoptera) within the Fijian archipelago." South Pacific Journal of Natural and Applied Sciences 36, no. 1 (2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sp18001.
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Long-horn beetles (Family: Cerambycidae) in Fiji consist of 124 described species within 45 genera, of which 110 (88.7%) species are considered endemic. Despite their conservation value, ecological significance and cultural importance, little scientific research has been conducted on the taxonomy or ecology of Cerambycidae in Fiji. This biogeographical study surveyed Cerambycidae by Malaise trapping on ten Fijian Islands. A total of 438 individuals and 44 species of Cerambycidae were recorded. Thirty three of the species collected are endemic to Fiji; three other species are native and eight species are new records for Fiji and/or new species. Twenty seven species were recorded from only one island and 20 species were recorded only as singletons. There was an expected significant relationship between the number of species collected on an island and the number of sampling events. The highest number of species, 23, was recorded on the largest island, Viti Levu, followed by Gau with 13 species and Vanua Levu and Kadavu with 12 species each. There was a positive relationship between species richness and island size but this was lost if the effect of sample number was taken into account. The results indicate that the species-area relationship may hold for Fijian Cerambycidae, but additional collecting events, over more of the annual cycle, and involving multiple collecting methods may be required to fully catalogue the current Fijian fauna.
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Weber, Eberhard. "Looking north or looking anywhere? Indo-Fijian international relations after the coups of May 2000 and December 2006." Bandung: Journal of the Global South 4, no. 1 (March 17, 2017): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40728-017-0039-4.
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Between 1987 and 2006 Fiji experienced four coups in which Governments were overthrown by their military forces or parts of it. After the fourth coup in December 2006 old metropolitan friends such as Australia, New Zealand, the USA and the EU responded with travel sanctions, cancellation of military cooperation and frozen development assistance. When Fiji was politically isolated it fostered secondary political friendships of olden days and established new ones. The paper searches for evidence of Fiji’s agency to change the structure of its International Relations (IR) after the coup of 2000. Such relations were first shaped in Prime Minister Qarase’s ‘Look North’ policy, but following the coup of December 2006 Fiji’s IR took a new quality once political isolation was overcome and internal power stabilized. The paper concentrates on Indo- Fijian relations, which, however, are embedded in Fiji’s general effort to achieve greater independence from old friends by forcing new international relationships. Of particular interest in this context is, if Fiji’s political orientation after 2006 has just been a temporary necessity born out of political isolation or if Fiji’s policy of fostering South–South relations will remain a decisive element of the country’s foreign policy in the long term. To understand IR in the context of Fiji and India it is essential to look at both countries, their interests and agency. Looking at Fiji alone would leave the question unanswered, why Indian Governments had an interest to cooperate with the country in the Pacific Islands despite hard-core nationalist anti-Indian sentiments and politics pursued in Fiji after the coup of 2000. It also won’t be conclusive why India should be interested at all to foster high profile relations with a tiny country like Fiji in a situation when Indian governments were aiming at much higher goals.
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Besnier, Niko, Albert J. Schütz, and Albert J. Schutz. "The Fijian Language." Language 63, no. 1 (March 1987): 191. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/415416.
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Subramani. "Indo‐Fijian writing." World Literature Written in English 27, no. 1 (March 1987): 143–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449858708589013.
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B. Harborne, Jeffrey. "Fijian Medicinal Plants." Phytochemistry 37, no. 5 (November 1994): 1489. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0031-9422(00)90441-2.
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Lawson, Stephanie. "The Myth of Cultural Homogeneity and Its Implications for Chiefly Power and Politics in Fiji." Comparative Studies in Society and History 32, no. 4 (October 1990): 795–821. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s001041750001673x.
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Since Fiji's independence in 1970, a chiefly establishment drawn largely from the eastern regions of the island group has dominated the government there and, through the Alliance Party, has managed, in one way or another, to retain power in successive electoral contests until its outright defeat in the general elections of April 1987. The new government comprised a coalition of the National Federation Party (NFP), supported largely by the Fiji Indian community, and the Fiji Labour Party, which was essentially multiracial. Before the elections, Dr. Timoci Bavadra, the Labour leader, had been chosen to head the coalition. An indigenous Fijian “commoner” from the western region of Fiji, Bavadra's victory in April 1987 represented a break in a long history of eastern chiefly political predominance established and consolidated under colonial rule, and carried forward into the modern context of post-independence politics.
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YANEGA, DOUGLAS, DAVID OLSON, SHARON SHUTE, and ZIRO KOMIYA. "The Xixuthrus species of Fiji (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae:) Prioninae." Zootaxa 777, no. 1 (December 17, 2004): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.777.1.1.
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There have been four species of the cerambycid genus Xixuthrus described from the Fijian archipelago; X. heros (Heer), X. terribilis Thomson, X. ganglbaueri Lameere, and X. heyrovskyi Tippmann. Over time, X. terribilis had been reduced to synonymy, and it had been suggested that X. ganglbaueri was probably from New Guinea rather than Fiji. We here re-establish the validity of X. terribilis, place X. heyrovskyi in synonymy with it, and designate a neotype for X. ganglbaueri to resolve both the species identity and its geographic provenance. Diagnoses of the three confirmed Fijian species are presented, including digital images of type specimens, and notes on temporal and spatial distribution.
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Ramacake, Soro. "Fijian social work practice." Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work 22, no. 4 (July 8, 2016): 38–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol22iss4id175.
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This article considers part of a Massey Social Work Research Report from 2007, whereby a literature review on Fijian life principles, values, social standards and living was undertaken. Discussion was presented on the methodology employed for the research and key findings about Fijian values, knowledge, skills that form the basis for Fijian social work practice were highlighted. This article contributes to a growing body of literature on indigenous models.
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Ranjit Singh, Thakur. "Fiji’s coup culture 1987-2006: A media perspective." Pacific Journalism Review 18, no. 2 (October 31, 2012): 167. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v18i2.271.
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Since attaining independence from Britain in 1970, Fiji enjoyed a period of ‘multiracial peace’ for 17 years under Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara and this gave the country the utopian slogan: ‘Fiji―the way the world should be.’ But was this really so? Beneath the notion of peace, democracy and racial unity was a racial volcano that erupted when democracy took another turn. Subsequent to the defeat of the chiefly-led Alliance Party in the 1987 election, a third-ranking military officer, Sitiveni Rabuka, staged a coup to topple a Fijian-led but Indian-dominated government. He later handed the controls back to indigenous Fijians. Since then, Fiji has never really tasted any long-lasting political peace, democracy or stability. Despite two constitutions and some five elections since the first coup, the Western concept of stable democracy has eluded Fiji. It has had four coups since 1987 and this notoriety relegated it to rogue state status with a ‘coup culture’, or as some academics and journalists have described it, became ‘coup coup land’. This article examines some issues relating to the prevalence of the coup culture in Fiji and, views them in the light of media coverage.
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N'Yeurt, A. De R. "A preliminary floristic survey of the benthic marine algae of Rotuma Island." Australian Systematic Botany 9, no. 3 (1996): 361. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sb9960361.
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A preliminary study of the intertidal benthic macroalgal flora of the island of Rotuma (12°30'S 177°05'E; politically attached to the Fiji Island group) has revealed a total of 88 taxa, including 41 Rhodophyceae, 11 Phaeophyceae and 36 Chlorophyceae, representing the first published records of marine algae for this island. Of these, 30 represent new records for the Fijian flora. The Rotuman flora is distinct from that of Fiji, a probable consequence of habitat limitations and high exposure regimes on Rotuman reefs that have led to a predominance of low-profile, robust algal species. A distinct north-south distribution pattern was found, brought about by variations in exposure regimes. Biogeographic considerations further dissociated the Rotuman and Fijian floras, the former being more equatorial and in the path of oceanic currents dispersing algal species from donor areas in the central and western Pacific.
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Ingleby, S., and D. Colgan. "Electrophoretic studies of the systematic and biogeographic relationships of the Fijian bat genera Pteropus, Pteralopex, Chaerephon and Notopteris." Australian Mammalogy 25, no. 1 (2003): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/am03013.
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Allozyme variation at 24 - 29 presumptive loci was used to examine the systematic relationships between Fijian bats and those from neighbouring areas such as Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, New Guinea and Australia. Genetic data indicate that the Fijian bat fauna contains highly divergent taxa as well as some populations that are virtually indistinguishable electrophoretically from conspecifics in neighbouring islands groups, particularly species shared with Vanuatu. The endemic Fijian monkey-faced bat Pteralopex acrodonta, had a level of distinctiveness from two of its congeners in the Solomon Islands comparable to that between different genera. There was also considerable electrophoretic variation within what is generally considered a single species, the northern freetail-bat Chaerephon jobensis. The Australian form, C. j. colonicus, shows levels of divergence from the Fiji/Vanuatu subspecies, C. j. bregullae, consistent with that of a distinct species. C. j. solomonis from the Solomon Islands appears to represent a third species within this group. Moderate levels of divergence were found within the one subspecies of long-tailed flying-fox Notopteris macdonaldii sampled from Fiji and Vanuatu. In contrast to Pteralopex and Chaerephon, close affinities were found between and within several other southwest Pacific bat species, in particular, the two different subspecies of insular flying-fox Pteropus tonganus from Fiji, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands. Low levels of genetic divergence were also found between P. tonganus and the morphologially similar spectacled flying-fox P. conspicillatus from Australia and New Guinea. The Samoan flying-fox Pteropus samoensis appeared to be most closely allied to the Temotu flying-fox Pteropus nitendiensis, from the Solomon Islands.
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Herle, Anita. "Displaying Colonial Relations: from Government House in Fiji to the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology." Museum and Society 16, no. 2 (July 30, 2018): 279–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.29311/mas.v16i2.2808.
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AbstractThis paper focuses on the assemblage and display of Fijian collections at Government House during the first few years of British colonial rule and reflexively considers its re-presentation in the exhibition Chiefs & Governors: Art and Power in Fiji (6 June 2013 – 19 April 21014) at the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA). It moves beyond reductionist accounts of colonial collecting and investigates the specificity and nuances of complex relationships between Fijian and British agents, between subjects and objects, both in the field and in the museum. A focus on the processes of collecting and display highlights multiple agencies within colonial networks and the fluid transactional nature of object histories. The Fijian objects that bedecked the walls of Government House from the mid 1870s were re-assembled in 1883 as the founding ethnographic collections of the University of Cambridge Museum of General and Local Archaeology (now MAA). Ethnographic museums have tended to efface the links between the material on display and their colonial pasts (Edwards and Mead 2013). In contrast, the creation of Chiefs & Governors was used as an opportunity to explore the multiple agencies within colonial relations and the processes of collecting, displaying and governing (Bennett et al.2014; Cameron and McCarthy 2015). The second half of this paper analyses the techniques and challenges involved in displaying colonial relations in a museum exhibition and considers the ongoing value of the collections for Fijian communities, cultural descendants, museum staff, researchers and broad public audiences today.
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Prakash, Amit, and Priteshni Chand. "The Potential of Re-exports: A Probability for Fiji’s Trade Growth." Asian Journal of Economics and Empirical Research 9, no. 1 (April 12, 2022): 52–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.20448/ajeer.v9i1.3841.
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This study investigates the significance of re-exports in Fiji. The dominance of the re-export of domestic exports is indisputable in Fiji; however, there is lack of literature concerning the performance of re-exports to total exports transiting the Fijian economy. This study aspires to fill that gap offering suggestions to strengthen the total exports of Fiji by diversifying the trade policies. Time series data is used for total exports, re-exports and domestic exports from 1985 to 2018 to establish an ARDL model. The model was subjected to diagnostic testing with a favorable outcome regarding the stability of the model for hypothesis testing. The findings re-affirm that re-exports are a significant predictor of Fiji’s total exports and trade growth. This research signifies the need for national policies to include the promotion of re-exports. Conclusively, the finding of this study is instrumental in updating or reshaping development policies for inclusive growth.
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Thaggard, Sandra, and El-Shadan Tautolo. "Bula vakavanua and the spiritual disruption of elder abuse: A Fijian perspective." Pacific Health Dialog 21, no. 6 (November 30, 2020): 335–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.26635/phd.2020.639.
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ABSTRACT Introduction: This article used a cultural lens to explore issues of elder abuse from a Fijian perspective. Fijian tradition of respect for the older adult is a priority and any mistreatment is viewed as a spiritual disconnection and most injurious to God, the land and the people; their ancestral foundations and traditional customs. Methods: The Fonofale model, as a pan-pacific approach was employed as a methodological paradigm to explore elements of abuse within a larger study of 50 Pacific Island elders from Pacific communities of Aotearoa, New Zealand. This article examines perceptions of abuse as seen from a Fijian perspective. Findings: The findings argue that all forms of abuse; physical, psychological, financial or neglect are seen as a spiritual disconnection to the very foundation of what it is to be Fijian, referred to as bula vakavanua - the Fijian way of life. Conclusion: Practitioners with the possibility of confronting situations of abuse may benefit from a cultural awareness programme, addressing the many different ways that abuse may be construed from within a culture other than the dominant one in society.
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Chand, Shamal Shivneel, and Baljeet Singh. "ASYMMETRIC ADJUSTMENT OF THE SECTORIAL LENDINGDEPOSIT RATE SPREAD IN FIJI." Buletin Ekonomi Moneter dan Perbankan 24 (March 8, 2021): 89–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.21098/bemp.v24i0.1468.
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This study investigates the asymmetric adjustment of the sectorial lending-deposit rate spread in Fiji’s banking industry using monthly data from January 2000 to February 2020. The study uses the threshold autoregressive and the momentum threshold autoregressive models to test for cointegration and to detect asymmetries. The analysis provides evidence of an asymmetric adjustment process in the sectorial lending deposit rate spread among Fijian commercial banks. This finding has important policy implications and provides better understanding of the asymmetric behaviour in Fiji’s banking industry.
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Mitchell, Elke, Stephen Bell, Li Jun Thean, Aalisha Sahukhan, Mike Kama, Aminiasi Koroivueti, John Kaldor, Andrew Steer, and Lucia Romani. "Community perspectives on scabies, impetigo and mass drug administration in Fiji: A qualitative study." PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 14, no. 12 (December 4, 2020): e0008825. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008825.
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Scabies is endemic in Fiji and is a significant cause of morbidity. Little is known about the sociocultural beliefs and practices that affect the occurrence of scabies and impetigo, or community attitudes towards the strategy of mass drug administration that is emerging as a public health option for scabies and impetigo control in Fiji and other countries. Data were collected during semi-structured interviews with 33 community members in four locations in Fiji’s Northern Division. Thematic analysis examined participants’ lived experiences of scabies and impetigo; community knowledge and perceptions about scabies and impetigo aetiology and transmission; community-based treatment and prevention measures; and attitudes towards mass drug administration. Many indigenous Fijian (iTaukei) participants noted extensive and ongoing experience of scabies and impetigo among children in their families and communities, but only one participant of Indian descent (Indo-Fijian) identified personal childhood experience of scabies. Scabies and impetigo were perceived as diseases affecting children, impacting on school attendance and families’ quality of sleep. Awareness of scabies and impetigo was considerable, but there were major misconceptions around disease causation and transmission. Traditional remedies were preferred for scabies treatment, followed by biomedicines provided by local health centres and hospitals. Treatment of close household contacts was not prioritised. Attitudes towards mass drug administration to control scabies were mostly positive, although some concerns were noted about adverse effects and hesitation to participate in the planned scabies elimination programme. Findings from this first study to document perspectives and experiences related to scabies and impetigo and their management in the Asia Pacific region illustrate that a community-centred approach to scabies and impetigo is needed for the success of control efforts in Fiji, and most likely in other affected countries. This includes community-based health promotion messaging on the social dynamics of scabies transmission, and a campaign of education and community engagement prior to mass drug administration.
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Park, Karen Elizabeth. "Reflexive marking in Fijian." Studies in Language 37, no. 4 (December 20, 2013): 764–809. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.37.4.03par.
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The Fijian language has long been believed to include no dedicated reflexive marker. This paper takes a close look at reflexive contexts within Fijian to arrive at the conclusion that the language, in fact, contains three distinct reflexive types, designated here as short (PRO), mid (PRO-ga), and long (PRO-ga-vakai-PRO) according to their morphological form. Moreover, different verbs in Fijian reflexive constructions are found to exhibit a certain degree of selective preference for specific reflexive types. The syntactic, semantic, and lexical characteristics of these three reflexive constructions are investigated in detail. The results of this research contribute to our general understanding of anaphora, binding requirements, and systems of coreference.
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Kennedy, Keith. "A Fijian Yaqona Ceremony." Mankind 1, no. 3 (February 10, 2009): 59–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1835-9310.1931.tb00858.x.
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Neill, Dawn B. "Indo-Fijian Children’s BMI." Human Nature 18, no. 3 (September 2, 2007): 209–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12110-007-9011-3.
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