TY - GEN AU - Close-Barry,Kirstie TI - A Mission Divided SN - OAPEN_603166 PY - 2016/// PB - ANU Press KW - Fiji KW - bicssc KW - Australasian & Pacific history KW - Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography KW - Nationalism KW - empire studies KW - methodist missions KW - pacific nationalism KW - fiji KW - Colonialism KW - Ethnic groups in Europe KW - Fijians KW - Indian people KW - Indo-Fijians KW - London Missionary Society N1 - Open Access N2 - This book provides insight into the long process of decolonisation within the Methodist Overseas Missions of Australasia, a colonial institution that operated in the British colony of Fiji. The mission was a site of work for Europeans, Fijians and Indo-Fijians, but each community operated separately, as the mission was divided along ethnic lines in 1901. This book outlines the colonial concepts of race and culture, as well as antagonism over land and labour, that were used to justify this separation. Recounting the stories told by the mission’s leadership, including missionaries and ministers, to its grassroots membership, this book draws on archival and ethnographic research to reveal the emergence of ethno-nationalisms in Fiji, the legacies of which are still being managed in the post-colonial state today. ‘Analysing in part the story of her own ancestors, Kirstie Barry develops a fascinating account of the relationship between Christian proselytization and Pacific nationalism, showing how missionaries reinforced racial divisions between Fijian and Indo-Fijian even as they deplored them. Negotiating the intersections between evangelisation, anthropology and colonial governance, this is a book with resonance well beyond its Fijian setting.’ – Professor Alan Lester, University of Sussex UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32849/1/603166.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32849/1/603166.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32849/1/603166.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30651 ER -