{"id":167,"date":"2014-11-06T10:46:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/?p=167"},"modified":"2014-11-06T10:46:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:46:04","slug":"te-tumu-seminar-guardianship-in-early-colonial-fiji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/te-tumu-seminar-guardianship-in-early-colonial-fiji\/","title":{"rendered":"Te Tumu Seminar: Guardianship in Early Colonial Fiji"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_168\" style=\"width: 203px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2014\/11\/Orphan-Girls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168\" class=\"wp-image-168 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2014\/11\/Orphan-Girls-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"Orphan Girls\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2014\/11\/Orphan-Girls-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2014\/11\/Orphan-Girls-658x1024.jpg 658w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2014\/11\/Orphan-Girls.jpg 1363w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from: Burton, J.W. (1910). Fiji of To-Day. London: Charles H. Kelly<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Te Tumu PhD student<strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Erica Newman <\/span><\/strong>will be presenting\u00a0the\u00a0research presentation, <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><strong>Guardianship in Early Colonial Fiji<\/strong><\/span>, on 12 November. \u00a0Please note that the venue and time have changed to previously advertised. \u00a0It will now be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">3.30-4.30<\/span>\u00a0pm in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">R3S10<\/span> (3rd floor, Te Tumu building).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Abstract<\/span>: \u00a0<em>Fiji became a British Colony in 1874 and within five years the Indian Indentured Labour Scheme was introduced to provide workers for the European owned plantations.\u00a0\u00a0Care of any orphaned children from these plantations was the responsibility of Colonial Office bureaucrats who applied the western systems of guardianship and adoption that they used throughout the Empire.This seminar will examine five examples of Colonial Office correspondence negotiating the approval of guardianship of children, between the years of 1889 to 1900. A study of these files reveals the circumstances of the child, those who were approved guardianship, and why they sought to become a guardian. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Te Tumu PhD student\u00a0Erica Newman will be presenting\u00a0the\u00a0research presentation, Guardianship in Early Colonial Fiji, on 12 November. \u00a0Please note that the venue and time have changed to previously advertised. \u00a0It will now be 3.30-4.30\u00a0pm in R3S10 (3rd floor, Te Tumu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[354,314],"tags":[17459,35298,35264,35299,35301],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postgraduate","category-seminar","tag-colonialism","tag-erica-newman","tag-fiji","tag-guardianship","tag-indo-fijians"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}