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Torens perception, craft and theoretical articulation can only be admired. - Vicki Lukere, Australia National University --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Mind, Materiality and History: Explorations in Fijian Historiography is 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 History demonstrates that the human mind is the fundamental historical phenomenon.
Torens perception, craft and theoretical articulation can only be admired. - Vicki Lukere, Australia National University --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Mind, Materiality and History: Explorations in Fijian Historiography is 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 History demonstrates that the human mind is the fundamental historical phenomenon.
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Many times during the eighteen months of my fieldwork in the village of Sawaieke on the island of Gau, Central Fiji, I listened to one or other of my hosts champion na i vakarau ni bula vakailavo se vakavavalagi, ' a way of life in the manner of money or in the European way'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Many times during the eighteen months of my fieldwork in the village of Sawaieke on the island of Gau, Central Fiji, I listened to one or other of my hosts champion na i vakarau ni bula vakailavo se vakavavalagi, ' a way of life in the manner of money or in the European way'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ratu Tomasi, Lands Commission, Ratu Damudamu, Tui Voda, Raw Tomasi, Vanua Levu New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- Anthropology, by Comparison by Andre Gingrich in Front Matter, and page 203
- Connections: Mind, Brain and Culture in Social Anthropology by Stephen Reyna in Back Matter
- The Art of Clothing: A Pacific Experience by Susanne Küchler on page 46
- Andean Archaeology (Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology) by Helaine Silverman in Back Matter
- Mind, Materiality and History: Explorations in Fijian Historiography (Material Cultures) by C. Toren in Front Matter
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