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Time for Others: Maintaining Social Customs in Fiji |
| Section: CULTURE / PEOPLES |
| Author: Barbara McClatchie Andrews |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 10/1/1994 |
| Size: 3,846 Words, 23,382 Characters |
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"Eat, sleep, bathe; eat sleep, stroll," replied the Cakobau when asked in 1854 by a British missionary to describe the pattern of his days in the Fiji Islands. Today, tourists to these islands can still find substantial remnants of the pattern of which he spoke. Time in Fiji, as anthropologist Henry Rutz once suggested, is full, a rich fabric woven at a leisurely pace and quite distinct from time as experienced by people of European descent. Despite the introduction of clock and calendar by Methodist missionaries more than one hundred tears ago, despite, industrial "progress" and economic growth--nurtured primarily by a once-indentured Indian population--certain concepts of time persist in the Fiji Islands. So does devotion to three elements, to which most Fijians dedicate their days: vanu...
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... seasons and weather; now they tend to adjust to the call of the school gong. Workers no longer go to the plantation at dawn but wait for the beginning of their children's school day; they come home at noon rather than at work's natural end, as they once did, because the children return at that time for the midday meal and must be fed before returning to afternoon classes.
--B.M.A.
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