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Annotated Bibliography: Tahiti: Huahine V. Darney
Crocombe, Ron and Marjorie, eds. The Works of Ta’Unga: Records
of a Polynesian Traveller in the South Seas, 1833-1896 Canberra:
Australian National University Press, 1968. reprinted by Institute of
Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, 1994. picture of central
and western Pacific at a time of great change, in the words of the locals.
Ta’unga was an advance stop for the missionaries moving west from
Tahiti.
Dodd, Edward. Polynesia’s Sacred Isle NY: Dodd, Mead, &Co.,
1976. vol III of a series on the culture of Polynesia, “The Ring
of Fire.” Raiatea history, geography, myths, flora.
Howath, David. Tahiti: a Paradise Lost. NY: Penguin Books, 1983.
history of Tahiti. Good popular account.
Howe, K.R. Nature, Culture, and History: the “Knowing” of
Oceania. Honolulu: University of Hawai’I Press, 2000. “This
book considers processes of “seeing” and “knowing”
by discussing concepts of nature, culture, and history with reference
to Oceania. A nice complement to deBotton’s The Art of Travel.
Lockwood, Victoria S. Tahitian Transformation: Gender and Capitalist
Development in a Rural Society Boulder & London: Lynne Rienner
Publishers, 1993. history of Tahitian conquest, transformation, “domestication”
of Tahitian women, and focus on Tubuai Potato Project.
Loti, Pierre. [pseudo of Julien Viaud] Tahiti: The Marriage of Loti.
NY: Frederick Stokes, nd. [1872] Fiction. His trip to Tahiti and the
women there. Often cited by later writers on Tahiti
Mitchell, Andrew. “Vanishing Edens” chapter 9 of A Fragile
Paradise: Nature and Man in the Pacific. London: Fontana/Collins,
1989. journey from Solomons to Easter Island, chronicling development
and degredation. Focus on Moorea.
Reverzy, The Crossing. NY; Pantheon, 1956. tr. Edward Hyams.
Original: Le Passage . fiction.
Wendt, Albert, ed. Nuanua: Pacific Writing in English since 1980
. Hololulu: University of Hawai’I Press, 1995. collected writings
from Anglophone Pacific islands.
Wragge, Clement L. The Romance of the South Seas London: Chatto
and Windus, 1906. chapters on Raiatea and Tahiti.
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