Dancing Spirit, Love, and War: Performing the Translocal Realities of Contemporary Fiji

Contents

• List of Illustrations vi
• Acknowledgments viii
• Note on Orthography xii
• Introduction: Fijian by Decree
• 1 Meke in a Changing Imperial World
• 2 Governing Meke: Choreographing Pasts, Expressing Futures
• 3 Meke in Multicultural Canada
• 4 Spiriting Meke: Generating Stability, Tension, and Transformation
• 5 Generating Efficacy: Countervailing Rhythms of a Contemporary Meke
• 6 Performing Indeterminacy: Performance of Mekhe ni Loloma
• Glossary 185
• Notes 187
• Bibliography 219
• Index