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1 day ago · Cannibalism used to be widespread in parts of Fiji (once nicknamed the "Cannibal Isles"), among some of the Māori people of New Zealand, and in the Marquesas Islands. It was also practised in New Guinea and in parts of the Solomon Islands , and human flesh was sold at markets in some Melanesian islands. [209]
Apr 29, 2024 · The aim is to investigate and interrogate how imprisonment, discipline, and punishment operated within Western Fiji from 1985 to the present day, and to reflect upon how the narratives used by Dyer highlight redemptive suffering, consistent with the Christian/Methodist culture of the Indigenous Fijian peoples.
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May 13, 2024 · Today, 14 May, marks Girmit Remembrance Day in Fiji, a commemoration of the day the first Indian indentured labourers arrived in British-administered Fiji in 1879.
May 16, 2024 · The Rev. Baker’s death in 1867 was the last recorded incident of cannibalism in Fiji. The real power of Fiji at that time, however, was the chief of Bau (Cakobau), who controlled much of Fiji. Over time, Cakobau, concerned with the growing powers of the other chiefs, growing unrest, and after having been made responsible for over $40,000 in ...
3 days ago · This is a list of incidents of cannibalism, or anthropophagy, the consumption of human flesh or internal organs by other human beings. Accounts of human cannibalism date back as far as prehistoric times, and some anthropologists suggest that cannibalism was common in human societies as early as the Paleolithic.
6 days ago · Fiji, country and archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean. It surrounds the Koro Sea about 1,300 miles (2,100 km) north of Auckland, New Zealand. Fiji. The archipelago consists of some 300 islands and 540 islets scattered over about 1,000,000 square miles (3,000,000 square km). Of the 300 islands, about 100 are inhabited.
3 days ago · After the two-day National Talanoa Session on Responding to Illicit Drugs in Fiji, the government, Civil Society Organisations, NGOs, faith-based orga
