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"Living in a reed hut on Taveuni--Fiji's "garden isle"-- the author studied the native language and carefully-observed traditions until he was accepted as a member of the village. Daily life was idyllic. Cannibalism has been abandoned, reluctantly, at the behest of the new Christian God. Factions and feuds were resolved by the stern but benevolent chief"

Fijian language. --- Cannibalism --- Ethnology --- Dixon, Robert M. W.,

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In the early 1960s, R.M.W. (Bob) Dixon was one of the first linguists to study the Aboriginal languages of northeast Queensland, Australia. He found that some languages of the coastal rainforest were still in daily use, but others were only half-remembered by a single elder. This autobiographical account of fourteen years of research, first published in 1984, paints a fascinating picture of the frontier society that existed in the region nearly fifty years ago. It reveals the difficulties and the excitement of linguistic fieldwork, but most of all it focuses on the people who agreed to work with Dixon and patiently helped him to understand their dauntingly complex languages. They allowed him to record their legends and songs and spent many hours answering his questions; this book is a poignant reminder of the fragility of their ancient culture.

Australian languages --- Linguistics --- Linguists --- Fieldwork --- Dixon, Robert M. W., --- Philologists --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Aboriginal Australians --- Languages --- Dixon, Robert M. W. --- Dixon, Bob, --- Dixon, R. M. W. --- Dixon, R.