"We used to eat people"

Revelations of a Fiji Islands Traditional Village

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Foreign Languages, Oceanic & Australian Languages, Biography & Memoir
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Author: R.M.W. Dixon ISBN: 9781476630700
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Publication: January 13, 2018
Imprint: Language: English
Author: R.M.W. Dixon
ISBN: 9781476630700
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication: January 13, 2018
Imprint:
Language: English

Living in a reed hut on Taveuni—the “garden isle” of Fiji—the author studied the native language and carefully observed their traditions until he was accepted as a (somewhat unusual) member of the village. Despite five cyclones the summer of 1985, daily life was idyllic. Cannibalism has been abandoned, reluctantly, at the behest of the new Christian God. But the old religion survived beneath the facade and priests danced naked on the beach beneath the full moon. The village pulsated with factions and feuds, resolved by the stern but benevolent chief, whose word was law. Legends told of a princess born as a bird, who was killed and thus became a comely maiden—but the murderer had to be cooked and eaten.

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Living in a reed hut on Taveuni—the “garden isle” of Fiji—the author studied the native language and carefully observed their traditions until he was accepted as a (somewhat unusual) member of the village. Despite five cyclones the summer of 1985, daily life was idyllic. Cannibalism has been abandoned, reluctantly, at the behest of the new Christian God. But the old religion survived beneath the facade and priests danced naked on the beach beneath the full moon. The village pulsated with factions and feuds, resolved by the stern but benevolent chief, whose word was law. Legends told of a princess born as a bird, who was killed and thus became a comely maiden—but the murderer had to be cooked and eaten.

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