Cook Islands Culture
Cook Islands Culture

Author: R. G. Crocombe

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13:

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This accessible guide to Cook Islands' culture features contributions providing an insider's perspective on various aspects of culture. The evolution of Cook Islands' culture is also examined.

The New Arcadia
The New Arcadia

Author: Monique Layton

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1460268601

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SINCE BEING "DISCOVERED " IN 1767, Tahiti has faced a profound cultural upheaval. From the start, she has been branded with the irresistible dual myth of the Noble Savage's harmonious Arcadian life and of the vahine's amorous favours freely granted. People (navigators, missionaries, whalers, slavers) and events (deadly epidemics, atomic testing, and now tourism), all have contributed over time to creating the modern Tahitian quandary: trying to recover an idealized past and losing the benefits of modern life, or continuing as a cog in the French administrative system and losing her soul. Based on historical records, sailors' journals, Ma'ohi epic poetry, European paintings, folkloric events, the film industry, and novels by modern Tahitian writers, this book follows the passage from Otaheite's paradisal way of life, through the disastrous encounter with European civilization, ending with French Polynesia's modern prospects. Most remarkable of all is the enduring Ma'ohi culture's survival into the twenty-first century.

Towards a Pacific Island Sociology of Sport
Towards a Pacific Island Sociology of Sport

Author: Yoko Kanemasu

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2024-10-10

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1837530882

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Extending the horizon of regional sport scholarship beyond the Global North, this volume offers an exciting opportunity for sociology of sport scholars to widen the scope of their research in search of fuller understandings of the forms, meanings, dynamics and impacts of sport for Pacific peoples.

Vaka
Vaka

Author: Thomas R. A. H. Davis

Publisher: [email protected]

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9789820201538

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A novel about a great Polynesian voyaging canoe; "Takitumu"; and the people who sailed across Te Moana Nui a Kiva (the Pacific Ocean).

Historical Dictionary of Polynesia
Historical Dictionary of Polynesia

Author: Robert D. Craig

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 9780810842373

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Alphabetically arranged entries, ranging in length from a paragraph to several pages, describe the important people, food, native animals, politics, history, and culture of Polynesia, which is made up of more than a dozen countries, including American Samoa, French Polynesia, Hawaii, New Zealand, and Tonga. The book includes a four-page list of acronyms, an extensive chronology, and appendices with the names of Polynesian islands and lists of political rulers of the various states through history. Author Craig (emeritus, history, Alaska Pacific U.) has created several other dictionaries on Oceania, Polynesian mythology, and Hawaii. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.