Eräsaari, We are the Originals - A Study of Value in Fiji

This dichotomy has occupied a central place in the anthropology of Fiji for more than 100 years, during which the dual classification into land people and sea people has been applied in reference to commoners and chiefs, indigenes and strangers, Melanesians and Polynesians, land owners and landless aristocracy, hosts and guests, equality and hierarchy, even humanity and divinity. This thesis adopts the viewpoint of Naloto village in the chiefdom of Verata, a polity that in most present-day...