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Increased awareness of the vulnerability of coral reef ecosystems to the synergistic effects of natural and anthropogenic environmental changes has lead to subjective reporting of observed changes, but there has been a significant lack of objective monitoring of coral reef ecosy…

This is an ethnographic study about land and belonging in an Indo-Fijian rural cane farming settlement in Fiji, where Indo-Fijians have lived and worked for generations, while recognising that the land belongs to indigenous Fijians. Indo-Fijians are mainly the descendants of Ind…

Interethnic competition assumes a distinctive character in plural societies characterized by ethnic counterbalance. Counterbalance describes cases where one organized ethnic community demands priority in the political system while another ethnic community controls a significant …

This dissertation is an examination of the ways in which colonial ontologies continue to structure forms of self-understanding in the postcolonial world, with specific reference to contemporary Fijian military service in the British Army. Based on seventeen months of ethnographi…

The California-Nevada Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church exhibits a faster rate of decline than the already declining Protestant church in the United States. American consumerism and the professionalization of the church reveal a broken ecclesiology and missiology.…