Tokelau
Subtitle: A Historical Ethnography
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: March 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780824819125
Subjects: Anthropology; Cultural studies; Ethnic studies; Social Science; Cultural And Social Anthropology; Sociology; Folklore & Mythology; Villages; Anthropology - Cultural; Ethnology; Folklore; Tokelau
Description: Tokelau: A Historical Ethnography is the outcome of over two decades of intensive and wide-ranging research in and about the three tiny Polynesian atolls of Tokelau. It is both a comparative ethnographic study of the islands and a narrative record of their past. The ethnographic study is set in the years around 1970. The combined stories of the atolls' traditional, contact and colonial pasts are told through foreign documents which complement local narratives and records.

Throughout, the differences and interrelationships between the three places are highlighted.