[ANU Pacific.Institute] Invitation to join new Oceania Discussion Group and discuss book by Matt Tomlinson on Fijian Christianity

[Alan Rumsey]

_As many of you will know, since 1996 there has been an informal 
interdiscipilinary discussion group at ANU called the 'Melanesia 
Symposium'. In keeping with the broad Pacific interests of the group we 
have decided to rename it the 'Oceania Discussion Group'. As before, the 
group will meet to discuss recent publications of interest and 
work-in-progress by members of the group. Anyone interested in the 
Pacific is welcome to join. If you wish to, please email me at 
alan.rumsey at anu.edu.au <mailto:alan.rumsey at anu.edu.au> and I will 
subscribe you to Alliance site for the group.

_The first meeting of the group in its new incarnation will be on 
Wednesday, 25 July at 2:00 in the larger of the two seminar rooms in the 
New CHL Hub in the Coombs Building. The publication we will discuss is 
Matt Tomlinson's (2009) book 'In God's Image: The Metaculture of Fijian 
Christianity'. Matt has just joined the CAP Anthropology Department and 
will be with us for the discussion. He has selected about 40 pages from 
the book that we will be focussing on as core readings. Those pages are 
available for download from the Alliance site.

_Those attending the meeting are encouraged to read the whole book. It 
is available on two-day loan from Chifley Library.

-- 
Alan Rumsey
Professor, Department of Anthropology
School of Culture, History and Language
College of Asia and the Pacific
Australian National University
Canberra, ACT 0200
Australia
ANU CRICOS # 00120C
tel (61)-(0)2-6125-2365
fax (61)-(0)2-6125-3023
http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/people/personal/rumsa_ant.php

President Emeritus, Australian Anthropological Society, 2012

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