TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Nation and Decolonization

On the Actual Origins of Nation-States

2. Time and the Global

Against the Homogeneous, Empty Communities in Contemporary Social Theory

3. Diaspora and World War, Blood and Nation in Fiji and Hawai'i

4. "They Cannot Represent Themselves"

Colonial Communities in Fiji, 1936 to 1947

5. "Blood on the Grass and Dogs Will Speak"

Ritual Politics and the Nation in Independent Fiji

6. Constituting Fiji

Communities, the Nation-State, and the Coup of 2000

Notes

Bibliography

Index