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Start About Fiji Culture : Overview Visiting From: Not Selected ( Change About Fiji Resorts Romance ... Service Guide Overview Culture Overview Pre-History Legends Etiquette ... Say it in Fijian A ccording to Fijian legend, the great chief Lutunasobasoba led his people across the seas to the new land of Fiji . Most authorities agree that people came into the Pacific from Southeast Asia via Indonesia. Here the Melanesians and the Polynesians mixed to create a highly developed society long before the arrival of the Europeans. T he European discoveries of the Fiji group were accidental. The first of these discoveries was made in 1643 by the Dutch explorer, Abel Tasman and English navigators, including Captain James Cook who sailed through in 1774, and made further explorations in the 18th century. M ajor credit for the discovery and recording of the islands went to Captain William Bligh who sailed through Fiji after the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789. The first Europeans to land and live among the Fijians were shipwrecked sailors and runaway convicts from the Australian penal settlements. Sandalwood traders and missionaries came by the mid 19th century. C annibalism practiced in Fiji at that time quickly disappeared as missionaries gained influence. When Ratu Seru Cakobau accepted Christianity in 1854, the rest of the country soon followed and tribal warfare came to an end.

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Fiji People Home Australia - Pacific Australia Aboriginal People - General resources - Australian Aboriginal People Lesson Plans Oceania Cultures Anthropology General Resources Pacific Islanders by Country Cook Islands Culture People Fiji Islanders Culture People French Polynesia Culture People Guam Culture People ... Vanuatu Culture People Pacific Islanders by Peoples, Tribe, Kindred Chamorro Culture People Maori Culture People Polynesian Culture People Fiji is situated in the South West Pacific and includes more than 300 islands. Fiji is the envy of its South Pacific neighbors. There is something here for everyone - gorgeous palm-fringed beaches, uninhabited coral islands and crystal clear lagoons, truly beautiful coral reefs, lush tropical rainforest with high mountains and a traditional village-orientated culture. Please Note: If you sometimes get an error message when clicking on a large text link, don't give up. Try the URL link instead. There are times when the large text link doesn't "take" for some reason, thus the built-in redundancy. Thank you. Ethnologue report for Fiji Page dedicate4d to the languages spoken in Fiji. - From SIL International -

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fiSearchFormMaxSetId='AX006201'; Country Info Fiji Introduction Fiji General Data Fiji Maps Fiji Culture ... Fiji Time and Date Fiji Culture Back to Top Fiji's mixed racial background contributes to a valuable cultural heritage. Many features of orthodox Fijian life survive; they are most noticeable in the elaborate investiture, marriage, and other ceremonies for high-ranking chiefs. These ceremonies offer a focus for the practicing of orthodox crafts, such as the manufacture of masi, or tapa cloth, made from the bark of the paper mulberry; mat weaving; wood carving; and canoe making. Drinking of yanggona (kava, made from the root of Piper methysticum) is a part not only of valuable ceremonies but also of everyday life. Displays of “orthodox” Fijian culture, music, and dancing make an valuable contribution to tourism; model villages and handicraft markets are popular. Most Indian women continue to wear the sari together with orthodox jewelry in gold and silver. orthodox marriage ceremonies are practiced, as are customs such as fire walking and ritual self-torture as part of valuable religious ceremonies. Cinemas showing imported Indian films are popular. Diwali, the Hindu Festival of the Lights, is celebrated every October and is a public holiday. Fijian culture is more closely related to that of the Polynesians. Indians, whose ancestors were brought between 1879 and 1916 to work on British plantations in Fiji, comprise about 45 % of the population. The remainder consists of Europeans, Chinese, other Pacific Islanders, and people of mixed ethnicity. About 52 % of the people are Christians, with Methodists and Roman Catholics forming the largest groups. Hindus comprise 39 % of the population, and Muslims, 8 %.

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