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Suva, Fiji: South Pacific Social Sciences Association. 1978. Unaisi Nabobo-baba, Knowing & Learning - an indigenous Fijian approach, IPS Publications, University of the South Pacific, 2006. ISBN 978-982-02-0379-2. General reference to Traditional Fijian culture, terms and meanings and history with a study on the people of Vugalei on Viti Levu ...
Fijian mythology refers to the set of beliefs practiced by the indigenous people of the island of Fiji.. Their indigenous religion, like many others around the world, is based on cyclic existence where their ancestors and the environment exist in a dynamic cycle through experience, history and one with nature.
Suva Central Business District in the 1950s Suva, Fiji, c. 1920. In 1868, when Suva was still a small village, the Bauan chieftain, Seru Epenisa Cakobau, granted 5,000 km 2 (1,900 sq mi) of land to the Australian-based Polynesia Company, in exchange for the company's promise to pay off debts owed to the United States.
The culture of Fiji is a tapestry of native Fijian, Indian, European, Chinese and other nationalities. Culture polity traditions, language, food costume, belief system, architecture, arts, craft, music, dance, and sports will be discussed in this article to give you an indication of Fiji's indigenous community but also the various communities which make up Fiji as a modern culture and living.
The Fiji Museum holds the most important collection of Fijian artifacts in the world. [10] The centrepiece of the museum's collection is the 13 metre-long double-hulled canoe, Ratu Finau . [ 11 ] Other important objects include the rudder from HMS Bounty , objects relating to cannibalism, as well as objects that record the impact of colonial ...
The most recent holder of this title was Ratu Josefa Iloilo, who was the President of Fiji from 2000 to 2009, apart from a 29-day hiatus (5 December 2006 to 4 January 2007) after he was deposed in a military coup. The military returned the presidency to Iloilo. Former Prime Minister Ratu Tevita Momoedonu is also a Burebasaga chief.
The capital of the division is Suva, which is also the capital of Fiji. The division includes the eastern part of the largest island in Fiji, Viti Levu, with a few outlying islands, including Beqa. It has a land border with the Western Division on Viti Levu, and sea borders with the Northern Division and Eastern Division.
Rewa is a province of Fiji.With a land area of 272 square kilometers (the smallest of Fiji's provinces), it includes the capital city of Suva (but not most of Suva's suburbs) and is in two parts — one including part of Suva's hinterland to the west and a noncontiguous area to the east, separated from the rest of Rewa by Naitasiri Province.