Title: Transformations of Polynesian culture /
Authors: Hooper, Antony.; Huntsman, Judith.; Polynesian Society (N.Z.); Pacific Science Congress
Date: 1985
Publisher: The Polynesian Society,
Physical description: 226 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC class: G
Contents: Introduction / Antony Hooper -- Tū alone was brave : notes on Maori cosmogony / Gregory Schrempp -- History, myth and Polynesian chieftanship : the case of Rotuman kings / Alan Howard -- The conqueror becomes king : a political analysis of the Hawaiian legend of ʻUmi / Valerio Valeri -- Hawaiian art and society : traditions and transformations / Adrienne Kaeppler -- Structures of Tokelau history / Judith Huntsman and Antony Hooper -- Transformation of the meeting-house in Tuvalu / Michael Goldsmith / From oral to written : the putu tupuna of Rurutu / Alain Babadzan -- Hierarchy and humanity in Polynesia / Marshall Sahlins -- Concluding remarks / Edmund Leach.
Notes: "The essays in this volume originate from papers given at a symposium ... at the XV Pacific Science Congress in Dunedin in February of 1983."--Introd.