Fiji Term Abroad
Interactive Web Project

This page is the home page for the Fiji interactive web project (pet name fiji.net) established by professors Brison, Condry, and Leavitt. The project is an experiment in classroom/field interactions. Students taking a term abroad in Fiji engage in back-and-forth exchanges with introductory anthropology students at Union College.



The term abroad is located near the village of Rakiraki (see map) on the central island of Viti Levu in Fiji. The term abroad web site has two aims. First, it provides a forum for regular communication between the students on the Union term abroad and prof. Condry's two sections of the Introduction to Anthropology class. The web site features pictures of the students' field sites, full text of final papers, letters back to the US, and individual home pages for each term abroad student. The hope is to give classroom students the opportunity to communicate directly with their peers in the field. They may offer questions, suggestions, and strategies.

The web site's second aim is to provide a record of the 1999 Term Abroad in Fiji for anyone with an interest in the project. Students' relatives can look at the project's results. The students themselves can, upon their return, use the site as a reference, to look at each other's work and to share the Fiji experience with their friends.