Title Transformations of Polynesian culture / edited by Antony Hooper & Judith Huntsman

Published Auckland, N.Z. : Polynesian Society, 1985

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Description 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series Memoir / Polynesian Society, 0079-3779 ; no. 45 Memoirs of the Polynesian Society ; no. 45 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 Available from Anthropology Dept., University of Auckland Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Subject Civilization, Polynesian Ethnology -- Polynesia. Polynesians -- Social life and customs. SUBJECT Polynesia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104688 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851 Polynesia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92105545 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 Polynesia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92105545 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851 Author Hooper, Antony. Huntsman, Judith. Polynesian Society (N.Z.) Transformations of Polynesian Culture (1983 : Dunedin, N.Z.)

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