Cannibals and converts
Subtitle: radical change in the Cook Islands
By: by Maretu ; translated, annotated, and edited by Marjorie Tuainekore Crocombe
Contributors: Crocombe, Marjorie Tuainekore
Publisher: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, in association with the Ministry of Education, Rarotonga
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Suva, Fiji
Language: eng
Translated from: rar
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Converts; Biography; Missionaries; Church history; Social conditions; Cannibalism
Description: Story of the Cook Islands immediately before the coming of Europeans written by a Rarotongan missionary.
Notes: Translation of author's manuscript in Rarotongan.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 203-208.
Table of contents: title: Maretu's life, work and context; title: Cannibals and converts; title: Establishing the new order; title: Mangaia in turmoil, and forays to other islands; title: The cultural revolution on Manihiki and Rakahanga; title: Consolidation on Rarotonga.