Meke

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Meke, in the

Friedrich Ratzel in his 1896 publication The History of Mankind,^[1] writes about the Fijian meke as both song and dance, which only a few are given to invent and which those who do, allege that they do so in the spirit world where divine beings teach them the song and the appropriate dance. He wrote that the ideal of the Fijian poet is poetry with every verse ending with the same vowel of regular measure, which in practice is often achieved with poetic license through the use of arbitrary abbreviations or lengthenings, and omission of articles.

In popular culture

• A meke was performed by contestants for a reward challenge in Survivor: Fiji.^[2]

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