In:
Oceania, Wiley, Vol. 75, No. 4 ( 2005-09), p. 368-386
Abstract:
Spatial belonging and ethnic identity among the Banabans resettled on Rabi Island in Fiji are the product of historically and culturally specific articulations and transformations. Such reconfigurations of place and ethnicity, based mainly on enmeshments between the Banabans' new island home, Rabi, and their island of origin in the Central Pacific, Banaba, have let them position themselves as an autonomous community living out a diaspora existence. Central to this identity politics of positioning are ethnic performances in which neo‐traditional enactments are deployed to produce embodied knowledge of Banaban existence and to communicate such knowledge to a wider world. We argue that the Banabans of Fiji, caught in a post‐colonial environment of ethnic‐nationalist discourses and practices, make strategic use of such ethnic performances to affirm and advance, both internally and externally, their own politics of spatial and ethnic positioning on Rabi.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0029-8077
,
1834-4461
DOI:
10.1002/ocea.2005.75.issue-4
DOI:
10.1002/j.1834-4461.2005.tb02897.x
Language:
English
Publisher:
Wiley
Publication Date:
2005
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2066847-8
SSG:
6,32
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