Colonialism, Maasina rule, and the origins of Malaitan kastom / David W. Akin.
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Honolulu :
Center for Pacific Islands Studies, School of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa : University of Hawaiʻi Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Pacific islands monograph series ;
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Half Century Before
- Labor Trade
- Life Abroad
- Christian Missions and the Labor Scene
- Return from the White Man's Land
- Imposition of Pax Britannica
- 2. Early Native Administration: Coping with Custom
- Idea of Indirect Rule
- Antecedents and Beginnings of Native Administration
- Moorhouse Report and Malaita Policy after Bell
- District Officers, Law, and Custom Knowledge
- Malaitans Consider Government Law
- Custom as a Basis for Colonial Law
- 3. Colonial Experiments and Mounting Resentments
- Limping through the Great Depression
- Fallowes Movement
- La'aka Speaks
- Project to Counter are Depopulation
- Further Experiments: Councils and Courts
- 4. Wartime Opening
- Malaitan War Experience
- We Must Be Willing to Die for the Red Cross
- War Years on Malaita: Government Control Slips Away
- Promotion and Refusal of Postwar Native Administration
- Government Social Services: Education and Medicine
- Councils and Courts Revisited
- 5. Rise of Maasina Rule
- Genesis and Spread
- Movement Structure and Unity
- New Leaders
- Christian Leadership and the Missions
- Better Homes and Gardens: Maasina Rule Social Engineering
- Towns and Farms
- Social Life of Kastom
- Kastom Loa and Kastom Kouti
- Making Kastom Fit
- Kastom in Maasina Rule
- 6. Maasina Rule and the Government
- Government Becomes Aware
- Early Altercations
- Provisional Cooperation
- Path to Conflict
- Rejecting Indentured Labor
- Alaha'ou'ou and the North-South Split
- Roy Davies Takes Charge
- 7. Suppression and Resistance
- Operation Delouse
- Colonial Justice: Rex v Bobongi and Others
- Peaceful Wars of Savages
- Fences, Operation Jericho, and Civil Resistance
- Census and the Tax, 1949
- Rumors, Hopes, and Fears
- 8. Attrition and Compromise
- Gregory-Smith and the Release of the Head Chiefs
- Federal Council
- Resolution
- 9. Gains and Losses.