Browsing Center for Pacific Islands Studies by Subject "national identity"

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Festival Mania, Tourism, and Nation-Building in Fiji: The Case of the Hibiscus Festival, 1956-1970

Bossen, Claus (University of Hawai'i Press / Center for Pacific Islands Studies, 2000)

Why did festivals proliferate in all urban centers in Fiji in the late 1950s and 1960s to the extent that one official talked about “festival mania”? Today the Hibiscus Festival in Suva, the Sugar Festival in Lautoka, the ...