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MR. DEANE'S work deals, among other topics, with the child-life, games, religion, ancestor-cult, sacred stones, symbolism, moral character, etiquette, fishing, food-prohibitions, and cannibalism of the Fijians. He does not attempt to give more than a sketch of some aspects of Fijian life, and some value is taken from his work by his habit of quoting other authorities instead of telling his own story. The authoritative work on Fiji has yet to be written, and ethnologists are eagerly awaiting some such work from the pen of Mr. A. M. Hocart, whose preliminary sketches give promise of so much to come. Fijian Society; or, The Sociology and Psychology of the Fijians. By the Rev. W. Deane. Pp. xv + 255. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1921.) 16s. net.

Fijian Society; or, The Sociology and Psychology of the Fijians

The association of the quilt with memory, protection, and the sustenance of connections hidden from plain view has inspired generations of scholars and practitioners. Quilting patterns and stitches, such as those of the African American quilts used in the struggle for freedom by enslaved blacks who travelled along the underground railroad, are known to enable people to navigate both time and space as emotionally charged ideas are crafted into absorbent cloth (Tobin and Dobard 1999). This article presents a perspective on Eastern Polynesian quilts that invite us to think about what such patterning may do in contexts where quilts are made as gifts to secure and refashion relationships, enabling us perhaps to move a little closer to understanding how quilts can be maps. Inspired by fiber-based techniques of latticework, the fabric quilts of the Pacific have emerged as key loci of the tacit knowledge of genealogy, mapping temporal relations in ways that do not resonate with cultural meanings as much as with logical reasoning that is applied whenever attachments are made and contested in the real world. Overtly it is the biography of the maker that is traced in the stitched patterns of the large and elaborate appliqu? and piecework quilts known as tivaevae, tifaifai, and kapa lau. Quilts generically known today as tivaivai are produced by women in the Cook Islands, the Hawaiian Islands, the Society Islands, and elsewhere in Eastern Polynesia, where they both substituted for barkcloth and mats and are used in ways deeply invested in the context of Christian domesticity, which arrived in this part of the Pacific with Presbyterian missionaries in the nineteenth century. For the purpose of clarity, the focus will be narrowed to the visual appearance of the Cook Island quilt, for it is here that diasporic demands, a Christian concern with time keeping and domesticity, and an existing tradition of fashioning genealogical markers have created a vibrant visual culture. Stored folded in treasure boxes, quilts here and elsewhere in Eastern Polynesia are the tangible reminders of relationships that are considered integral to a person. Externalized by women who shred and re stitch fabric into patterns, the quilts bring to the fore an understanding of social relationships in which a plurality of relations is transformed into a singular body. Much has been written about 'fractal personhood' in the Pacific where typical \"Western\" oppositions between individual and society, parts and wholes, singular and plural do not apply, and yet how people navigate themselves through such a complex web of possible worlds has remained a rarely asked question (Strathern 1988; Wagner 1991; Gell 1998). Quilts in the Pacific are pivotal to such matters of navigation as they are stitched to be given away at funerals, weddings, and other events marking stages of loss and severance in the life of a person, only to ultimately return to the grave of the maker.

The Modality of Time-Maps: Quilting in the Pacific from Another Point of View

Le present article1 a pour objet de rendre compte, a travers differentes sources ethnographiques, de I'ancienne societe des Ties Fidji orientales et des commentaires qu'elles susciterent, de ce qui est communement etudie en ethnologie sous le vocable d'organisations et de classifications dualistes.2 A cet egard, il est remarquable que la notion anthropologique de \"dualisme,\" si elle ne nait pas de I'analyse de la culture fidjienne, apparaisse concomitamment a la description et a I'analyse ethnographique de ces Ties sous la plume rigoureuse de A. M. Hocart. Le grand anthropologue ne repetait-il pas d'ailleurs a satiete le proverbe fidjien comme quoi: \"A Fidji, tout va par deux ou les requins attaquent\" (Hocart 1952:57; 1978:232). Cette affirmation peut etre tenue, a bon droit, comme le paradigme de I'analyse \"hocartienne\" des institutions et classifications fidjiennes traditionnelles. Celles-ci, formes archaTques d'une modalite universelle de representation et d'ordonnancement du monde, s'agengaient selon un vaste complexe dualiste, \"essence meme de I'Etat et du rituel aux Fidji\" (Hocart 1978:232). En ce sens, pour Hocart, une relation de complementarite existait entre les deux groupes se faisant face durant le rituel. Chaque partie en scene etait porteuse d'un \"referent\" antithetique a celui de son vis-a-vis. Par-dela I'apparente irreductibilite de ces principes represented, leur association ceremonielle etait la condition imperative afin que naisse le life giving, la \"source de vie,\" octroyee a I'ensemble de la societe par le \"sacrement\" de ses contraires (Hocart 1978:ch.XII et passim).3 Malgre la remarquable systematisation par Hocart de I'agencement duel du rituel et du symbolisme qu'il vehiculait a Fidji, un pessimisme demeurait quant a ses propres investigations. En conclusion de Tune de ses nombreuses syntheses sur le proces de centralisation du rituel a Fidji, ne declarait-il pas: \"Nous ne possedons malheureusement pas assez de connaissances au sujet de la chefferie pour comprendre cet indubitable dualisme\" (Hocart 1978:231)? Deja, avant Hocart, le prisme dualiste fut souvent mis a contribution pour etayer I'analyse des societes non occidentales. Depuis ses travaux, un simple survol bibliographique de la question permet de constater combien il n'a cesse d'etre operatoire.4

Dyades et agencements dualistes de l'autorité à Fidji: Un examen des sources sur la société traditionnelle

On the Meaning of Burekalou, a.k.a. "Model Spirit House" from Fiji

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Dyades et agencements dualistes de l'autorité à Fidji: Un examen des sources sur la société traditionnelle

On the Meaning of Burekalou, a.k.a. "Model Spirit House" from Fiji

Processus collaboratif menant à un portrait de la formation infirmière initiale au Québec et perspectives de développement au regard de la sécurisation culturelle auprès des Premières Nations et des Inuit