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The background to this book is as follows. The author's Australian grandfather, Frank White, served as government mining engineer and Inspector of Mines in Fiji from 1937 to 1945. The author's mother, Hilary, was born during their stay in Fiji, and was looked after by a Fijian nanny by the name of Valeriana Qumia, Anna for short. Around 1968 the family moved to Canada, and paused in Fiji where they looked up Anna and had a photograph taken of her with the now adult Hilary. The author grew up in Canada surrounded by mementos of her grandparents' and mother's time in Fiji, including artefacts, newspaper clippings and a written account by her grandmother, and her mother would take her to see performances of Pacific dances and sing her to sleep with a Fijian song.This prompted the author, as a performance ethnographer, to reach out to the considerable Fiji community in Vancouver and environs and apply her interest in dance to meke, the traditional dance‐cum‐song of Fiji, applying the methods of the ethnographer Dwight Conquergood. As the author puts it: ‘as a dancer politically invested in the knowledge of the moving body and embodied legacies of colonialism, I took his
The Australian Journal of Anthropology – Wiley
Published: Apr 1, 2023
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