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Chiefly polygamy refers in this presentation to a chief with many, simultaneous wives. In the bigger polities of Fiji during the 1840s and 1850s, chiefly polygamy carried an added political and economic freight. Such a statement should come as no surprise ‒
and commentators at the time (mostly missionaries or their sympathisers) were aware of the political and economic dimensions of their subject matter. Yet in some respects, these dimensions were overshadowed by other preoccupations in the discussion of Fijian
marriage. This presentation aims to bring these political and economic dimensions into focus by considering polygamy in the marital arrangements of five chiefs in three chiefdoms, those of Bau, Viwa and Rewa. At the very minimum, I hope to demonstrate how
principal wives embodied the political and economic domains of their husbands. These reflections lead in turn to questions for further exploration elsewhere, among them, the role played by such chiefly wives in the adoption of the <em>lotu Weseli</em> or Wesleyan
faith, which strictly insisted on monogamy for church members.</div>
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