TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Publicity, privacy, and “happy deaths” in Fiji
JO  - American ethnologist
A1  - Tomlinson, Matt
SP  - 706
EP  - 720
VL  - 34
IS  - 4
N2  - 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.<p /> 
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SN  - 0094-0496
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ae.2007.34.4.706
ID  - ref1
ER  -