An Introduction to Polynesian Anthropology

Literature on the Society Islands

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Literature on the Society Islands

Early Voyagers
  • Beechey (1825-1828)
  • Belcher (1836-1842)
  • Bennett (1833-1836)
  • Bligh (1787-1789)
  • Bligh (1791-1793)
  • Boenechea (1772-1776)
  • Broughton (1795-1798)
  • Bougainville (1766-1769)
  • Cook (1768-1771)
  • Cook (1772-1775)
  • Cook (1776-1780)
  • Coulter (1832-1836)
  • Dumont d'Urville (1837-1840)
  • Duperrey (1822-1825)
  • Du Petit-Thouars (1836-1839)
  • Edwards (1790-1791)
  • Kotzebue (1823-1826)
  • Lesson (1822-1825)
  • Moerenhout (1828-1834)
  • Mortimer (1789)
  • Stewart (1829-1830)
  • Turnbull (1800-1804)
  • Vancouver (1791-1795)
  • Wallis (1766-1768)
  • Wilkes (1838-1842)
  • Wilson (1796-1798)
Other Writers

Adams, Henry, Memoirs of Arii Taimai, Paris, 1901.

Andrews, Edmund and Irene, A comparative dictionary of the Tahitian language, Chicago, 1944.

Bovis, E. de, État de la société Taitienne a l'arrivée des Européens, Papeete, Tahiti, 1909. (Reprinted from Revue Coloniale, Deuxiéme serie, vol. 14, pp. 368-408, 1855.)

Corney, Bolton G., The quest and occupation of Tahiti by emissaries of Spain during the years 1772-1776, vols. 1-3; Hakluyt Soc., ser. 2, vols. 32, 36, 43, London, 1913, 1914, 1918.

Cuzent, Gilbert, Iles de la Société; Tahiti …, Rochefort, 1860.

Davis, I., A Tahitian and English dictionary, Tahiti and London, 1851.

Ellis, William, Polynesian researches, vols. 1-2, London, 1829.

Huguenin, Paul, Raiatea la sacrée, Neuchatel, 1902.

Jaussen, Tepano, Grammaire et dictionnaire de la langue Maori, dialecte Tahitian, Paris, 1898.

Montgomery, James, Journal of voyages and travels by the Rev. Tyerman and George Bennet, …, vols. 1-2, London, 1831.

Nordhoff, Charles, Notes on the off-shore fishing of the Society Islands, Polynesian Soc, Jour., vol. 39, pp. 137-173, 221-262, 1930.

Perkins, Edward T., Na Motu: reef rovings in the South Seas, New York, 1854.

Roth, H. L., Tatu in the Society Islands: Royal Anthrop. Inst. Great Britain and Ireland, Jour., vol. 35, pp. 283-294, 1905.

Société des Etudes Oceaniennes, Bulletin, vol. 1, 1917—.

Te Rangi Hiroa (P. H. Buck), Canoe outrigger-attachments in Tahiti and New Zealand: Polynesian Soc., Jour., vol. 38, pp. 183-215, 1929.

Te Rangi Hiroa (P. H. Buck), The feather cloak of Tahiti: Polynesian Soc., Jour., vol. 52, pp. 12-15, 100, 1943.

The south sea islander; … state of society in the island of Otaheite …, New York, 1820.

Vincendon-Dumoulin, A. C., and Desgraz, C., Iles Tahiti, vols. 1-2, Paris, 1844.

Bishop Museum Publications

Bouge, L. J., Notes on Polynesian pounders, Occ. Papers, vol. 9, no. 2, 1930.

Emory, K. P., Stone remains of the Society Islands, Bull. 116, 1933.

Handy, E. S. C., History and culture in the Society Islands, Bull. 79, 1931.

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Handy, E. S. C., Houses, boats, and fishing in the Society Islands, Bull. 90, 1932.

Handy, W. C, Handcrafts of the Society Islands, Bull. 42, 1927.

Henry, Teuira, Ancient Tahiti, Bull. 48, 1928.

Shapiro, H. L., Physical characters of the Society Islanders, Mem., vol. 11, no. 4, 1930.

Silverthorne, Henry, Society Islands pounders, Occ. Papers, vol. 11, no. 17, 1936.

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Title: An Introduction to Polynesian Anthropology

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