Mind, Materiality and History: Explorations in Fijian Historiography (Material Cultures)

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 5
COPYRIGHT......Page 6
DEDICATION......Page 7
CONTENTS......Page 8
ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 10
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 11
INTRODUCTION......Page 13
Re-thinking analytical categories......Page 15
Humans as autopoietic systems......Page 18
Mind and inter-subjectivity......Page 24
The language aspect of becoming who we are......Page 28
The phenomenology of learning......Page 30
Conclusion......Page 33
Part I  OBJECTIFYING HISTORY, MATERIAL MIND......Page 34
1  DRINKING CASH......Page 38
The gift and the status quo......Page 39
The ideal distinction between gift and commodity......Page 40
Yaqona as gift and tribute......Page 44
Yaqona and money as material symbols......Page 47
Drinking cash......Page 49
Gift, commodity and affinity......Page 52
Conclusion......Page 54
A ubiquitous image......Page 56
Some historical details......Page 59
An ambiguity in Fijian Wesleyanism......Page 60
Kinship and social organisation......Page 61
Meals and hierarchy within the domestic group......Page 62
Ambiguity in hierarchy beyond the domestic group......Page 63
Kava-drinking and hierarchy across domestic groups......Page 64
The transformation of reciprocity into tribute......Page 66
‘The Last Supper’ as an objectification of ‘facing each other’ (veiqaravi)......Page 68
Making the present, revealing the past......Page 73
Remarking places and events......Page 78
Ancestral places......Page 80
Ancestral powers in land and sea......Page 84
God and commodity exchange as sources of material power......Page 88
Transforming the emplaced past in the present......Page 90
Part II  THE MATERIAL BASIS OF MEANING......Page 94
4  SIGN INTO SYMBOL, SYMBOL AS SIGN......Page 98
Manifesting hierarchy......Page 99
Children’s drawings of kava-drinking......Page 102
Prepared drawings......Page 104
The merging of spatial and status categories......Page 105
Sign and symbol as a continuum of meaning......Page 108
5  MAKING HISTORY......Page 113
Illuminating inversions of meaning......Page 115
Cognition as a biologically microhistorical process......Page 119
The child in psychology and anthropology......Page 121
Conclusion......Page 126
6  RITUAL, RULE AND COGNITIVE SCHEME......Page 128
The idea of the rule......Page 130
Rule and practice......Page 132
Cognitive schemes and ‘the idea of the rule’......Page 133
Epistemological anxiety and ‘the idea of the rule’......Page 134
Part III  LIVING HISTORY, MATERIAL MIND AND THE STUFF OF THE WORLD......Page 137
7  TRANSFORMING LOVE......Page 140
The mutual compassionate love that constitutes kinship......Page 142
The passionate love that precipitates marriage......Page 143
The sexual implications of alcohol and dancing......Page 144
The developmental cycle of love......Page 146
Representations of male and female desire......Page 148
Cross-cousin into wife......Page 150
And thus began true love......Page 154
The interplay of compassion and desire in kinship relations......Page 157
Marriage and hierarchy......Page 158
Cosmogonic desire......Page 160
Devilish desire......Page 165
The coming of the light......Page 167
Death as sacrifice......Page 169
Hierarchy, equality and ritual......Page 172
9  ‘ALL THINGS GO IN PAIRS, OR THE SHARKS WILL BITE’......Page 174
Dualism and the transformation of equality into hierarchy......Page 175
Chiefship and rivalry in the history of Sawaieke......Page 178
Antithetical duality and its transformation......Page 185
Conclusion......Page 191
NOTES......Page 193
REFERENCES......Page 213
INDEX......Page 220