Michael C. Howard
Forfatter af Contemporary cultural anthropology
Om forfatteren
Michael C. Howard is a professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. He is the editor of the series Studies in the Material Cultures of Southeast Asia and author or editor of more than 30 books.
Værker af Michael C. Howard
Transnationalism in Ancient and Medieval Societies: The Role of Cross-Border Trade and Travel (2012) 5 eksemplarer
Textiles of the Highland Peoples of Burma, Volume 2: The Northern Mon-Khmer, Rawang, Upland Burmish, Lolo, Karen, Tai,… (2005) 4 eksemplarer
Textiles of the Highland Peoples of Northern Vietnam : Mon-Khmer, Hmong-Mien, and Tibeto-Burman (2002) 3 eksemplarer
Traditional T'ai arts in contemporary perspective / editors, Michael C. Howard, Wattana Wattanapun, Alec Gordon (1998) 3 eksemplarer
Textiles of the Highland Peoples of Burma, Volume 1: The Naga, Chin, Jingpho, and other Baric Speaking Groups (2005) 3 eksemplarer
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- Howard, Michael Carlton
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- 1949
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- University of Western Australia (PhD)
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- Simon Fraser University
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Fijians are divided by class, between workers and capitalists; by race, between indigenous or native Fijians, Indo-Fijians (the descendants of slaves/indentured servants the British brought to Fiji from India), and Europeans; by region, especially between East and West, the Eastern chiefly elite historically having collaborated with British colonialism and having close relations with Tonga, and the Western chiefly elite having distinguished itself by its resistance to colonialism; and by rank, between commoners and the chiefly elite.
Reading this book, I couldn’t help but find parallels between the power struggles within Fiji since independence in 1970 and those in South Africa and Israel, which Fiji’s conservative leaders have cultivated close relations with. The apartheid aims of the ultra-nationalist Taukei movement, which conservative leaders such as former PM Mara cultivated for decades, and those in the Fijian military are identical to apartheid South Africa and Zionists in Israel. (It is interesting to note that former Fijian soldiers, like former apartheid-era South African soldiers, have frequently been recruited as mercenaries to serve in U.S.-led wars.)
The biggest weakness with the book is the author’s excessive dependence and focus on electoral politics and individuals. His analysis of Fijian politics would be far more interesting — and more complete — if the issue of class was raised more frequently in relation to Fiji’s repeated military coups, not just race.… (mere)