Ancestral voices from Mangaia :
a history of the ancient gods and chiefs /
Michael P.J. Reilly

Description

Main Author

Reilly, Michael (Michael Patrick Joseph)

Related Names

Polynesian Society (N.Z.)

Language(s)

English ; Rarotongan

Published

Auckland, N.Z. : Polynesian Society, 2009

Subjects

Religion.
Kinship.
Historiography.
Ethnology.
Civilization.
Chiefdoms.
Kinship > Kinship / Cook Islands > Kinship / Cook Islands / Mangaia
Chiefdoms > Chiefdoms / Cook Islands > Chiefdoms / Cook Islands / Mangaia
Ethnology > Ethnology / Cook Islands > Ethnology / Cook Islands / Mangaia
Cook Islands > Cook Islands / Mangaia.
Cook Islands.
Cook Islands > Cook Islands / History
Mangaia (Cook Islands) > Mangaia (Cook Islands) / Civilization
Mangaia (Cook Islands) > Mangaia (Cook Islands) / Religion
Mangaia (Cook Islands) > Mangaia (Cook Islands) / Historiography
Mangaia (Cook Islands) > Mangaia (Cook Islands) / History
History.

Summary

Transcribes and interprets a series of indigenous historical texts, including proverbs, songs and narratives, as told by generations of Mangaian scholars, notably the tribal historian, Mamae, and by outsider scholars, particularly the missionary William Wyatt Gill and Te Rangi Hiroa

Note

Includes translations from the texts of Mamae

Physical Description

330 p. : ill., geneal. tables, maps ; 23 cm

ISBN

9780908940080 (pbk.)
0908940084 (pbk.)

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