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Citation

Tomlinson MATT. Am. Ethnol. 2007; 34(4): 706-720.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1525/ae.2007.34.4.706

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In this article, I investigate death as a nexus around which public–private distinctions are made. An examination of Methodist missionary efforts at entextualizing “happy deaths” in 19th-century Fiji shows how the missionaries both attempted to create a Christian reading public “back home” but also unintentionally helped create a new private zone of the demonic. I analyze the private demonic zone through the constricted circulation of particular narratives heard after the death of a high chief in 2003.

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