• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Lau Fijians : OQ06
  • Contributor: Arno, Andrew [Other]; Hocart, Arthur Maurice [Other]; Bryan, Edwin H. Jr [Other]; Thompson, Laura [Other]; St. Johnston, T. R. [Other]
  • Corporation: Human Relations Area Files, Inc
  • imprint: New Haven, Conn: Human Relations Area Files, Inc, 1996
  • Published in: eHRAF World Cultures
  • Extent: Online-Ressource
  • Language: English
  • Reproductino series: eHRAF World Cultures
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: - The world of talk on a Fijian island: an ethnography of law and communication causation - Andrew Arno - 1993 -- - Personal names as narrative in Fiji: politics of the Lauan onomasticon - Andrew Arno - 1994
    Culture summary: Lau Fijians - Anonymous - 1996 -- - Lau Islands, Fiji - by A. M. Hocart - 1929 -- - Southern Lau, Fiji: an ethnography - by Laura Thompson - 1940 -- - Fijian frontier - by Laura Thompson - 1940 -- - The culture history of the Lau Islands, Fiji - by Laura Thompson - 1938 -- - The relations of men, animals, and plants in an island community (Fiji) - by Laura Thompson - 1949 -- - The problem of 'totemism' in southern Lau: a reply to A. Capell and R. H. Lester - by Laura Thompson - 1946-1947 -- - Adzes from the Lau Islands, Fiji - by Laura Thompson - 1937 -- - Pottery of the Lau Islands, Fiji - by Laura Thompson - 1937 -- - Preliminary report on the Lau group, Fiji - by Edwin H. Bryan, Jr. - [n.d.] -- - The Lau Islands (Fiji) and their fairy tales and folk-lore - by T. R. St. Johnston, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S. - 1918 --
  • Description: The Lau Fijians occupy the central and southern islands, forming the chiefdom of Lakemba, of the Lau island chain that is part of Fiji. This file on the Lau Fijians consists of 12 documents. Laura Thompson's work, fieldwork in 1933-1934, constitutes the bulk of the data