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Whaling, Tabua and Cokanauto

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dc.contributor.authorLuker, Vicki
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-20T20:59:17Z
dc.date.available2020-12-20T20:59:17Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.date.updated2020-12-20T07:37:09Z
dc.description.abstractVicki Luker details the important role played by tabua-or whales' teeth-in Fijian history. Though Fiji was not a bustling whaling outpost compared to other sites in the Pacific, tabua, introduced by Tongans in the eighteenth century, came to occupy an important role as both currency between Europeans and Fijians and as a valuable item in political negotiations. In addition, Luker discusses how the infamous high chief of the Fijian polity of Rewa, Cokanauto, became a "whaler" in order to secure large quantities of tabua.
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn2190-5088
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/218896
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherRachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society
dc.sourceRCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society
dc.titleWhaling, Tabua and Cokanauto
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage47
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage39
local.contributor.affiliationLuker, Vicki, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.contributor.authoruidLuker, Vicki, u4012845
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor169905 - Studies of Pacific Peoples' Societies
local.identifier.absfor160606 - Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
local.identifier.absseo960808 - Marine Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity
local.identifier.ariespublicationu5412248xPUB221
local.identifier.citationvolume5
local.type.statusPublished Version

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