From Sugar Cane to 'Swords

Hope and the Extensibility of the Gift in Fiji

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2266548
AutoresHirokazu Miyazaki (0000-0002-2526-0103, Cornell University, autor correspondente)
Ano2005
Volume11
Fascículo2
Páginas277-295
Data de publicação2005-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1359-0987 • E-ISSN: 1467-9655
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9655.2005.00236.x
OpenAlexW2072550718
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas23
Referências citadas50

Hope has recently emerged as an important subject of inquiry in anthropology and social theory. This article examines the hope entailed in efforts to extend aspects of gift-giving to various other social and theoretical projects. I identify and contrast two different kinds of hope found in these efforts, which I will call 'hope in an end' and 'hope in the means'. The discussion focuses on two extensions of indigenous Fijian gift-giving: John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan's recent analysis of Indo-Fijian sugar cane farmers''gift' of cane to an indigenous Fijian high chief in 1944; and the Fiji government Ministry of Tourism's efforts in the mid-1990s to train indigenous Fijian souvenir traders in a properly 'Fijian' manner of engagement with tourists. With this contrast, I argue that 'hope in an end' occludes 'hope in the means

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