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9780415195768

Mind, Materiality and History: Explorations in Fijian Ethnography

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415195768

  • ISBN10:

    0415195764

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-09-22
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Mind, Materiality and History: Explorations in Fijian Historiographyis 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 Historydemonstrates that the human mind isthefundamental historical phenomenon.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
ix
Acknowledgements x
Introduction: mind, materiality and history 1(22)
PART I Objectifying history, material mind 23(60)
Drinking cash: the purification of money through ceremonial exchange in Fiji
27(18)
Making the present, revealing the past: the mutability and continuity of tradition as process
45(22)
Seeing the ancestral sites: transformations in Fijian notions of the land
67(16)
PART II The material basis of meaning 83(42)
Sign into symbol, symbol as sign: cognitive aspects of a social process
87(15)
Making history: the significance of childhood cognition for a comparative anthropology of mind
102(14)
Ritual, rule and cognitive scheme
116(9)
PART III Living history, material mind and the stuff of the world 125(57)
Transforming love: representing Fijian hierarchy
129(17)
Cosmogonic aspects of desire and compassion in Fiji
146(17)
`All things go in pairs, or the sharks will bite': the antithetical nature of Fijian chiefship
163(19)
Notes 182(17)
References 199(7)
Index 206

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