Some books & a bibliography about Polynesia & The Marquesas Islands

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Books available on the Net

Les Nuées d'Anaa
This is a french book telling the story of a french "Toate" (doctor) in the Tuamotu archipelagos.

Charles Darwin
A complete chapter extracted from the Darwin book. The Voyage of the Beagle found on a classical literature oriented web site. This chapter tells the story of the voyage of Darwin to Tahiti and New Zealand.

Autumn Down Under
Herky and Shikha Gottfried travelled in our country during summer 1994. Interesting pictures and relevant text.

The Genkan
An American journalist living in the town of Sendai, Japan, went on a trip to Tahiti in 1994. This is his vacation diary.

"In the South Seas "
A book from Robert Louis Stevenson


Bibliography about the Marquesas Isles


• Dening, Greg, 1980. Islands and Beaches. Melbourne University Press.
• Handy, Willowdean. 1922. Tattooing in the Marquesas Honolulu, Hawaii: The Bernice P. Bishop Museum.
• Handy, Willowdean. 1965. Forever the Land of Men: an Account of a Visit to the Marquesas Islands. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
• Langsdorff, George H. von. 1813. Voyages and Travels in Various Parts of the World. London.
• Melville, Herman. 1846. TypeeLondon: John Murray.
• Steinen, Karl von den. 1928. Die Marquesaner und ihre Kunst. 3 Vols. Berlin: D. Reimer.

The following information have been taken from "F/28 Oceanie française, par Jacqueline Lebeuf", 1971 with the authorisation of the author:

Bibliographies:
• O'Reilly et Reitman, Bibliographie de Tahiti et de la Polynesie française, Paris, Musée de l'homme 1967, 4048p, p. Publi. Soc. Océaniste, n°14.
• Buck, An introduction to Polynesian anthropology, B.M., n°187, 1945, 133p
• Davies, The history of the Tahitian mission, Cambridge, 1961, p.365-376

General books:
• Beechey,Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and beering's straem, London, 1831, 2vol.
• Bligh, A voyage to the south seas..., London, Nicol, 1792, 264 p.
• Morrisson, The journal of James Morrisson..., ed. by O.Rutter, London, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1935.

Social, Religious & Political organisation :
• Williamson, The social and political systems of central Polynesia..., Cambridge, at the Universemy press, 1924, 3vol., xxxx-439, xxxx-439, ii-488p.
• Hogbin, Law and order in Polynesia, London, Christophers, 1934.
• Lehman, Die Polynesischen Tabusemten , Veröf. Staat. sach. Forschunginstemuts f. Völkerkunde, Leipzig, I. Reihe, t.10, 1930,144p

Economical organisation:
• Firth, Primemive polynesian economy, 2nd ed., London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Hamden (Conn.), Archon books, 1965, 387 p.
• Hogbin, Polynesian ceremonial gift exchange, Oceania, t.3, 1932, p.13-39

Current social structure:
• Poirier, L'évolution récente des sociétés polynesiennes, J.S.O., t6, 1958, 306p
• Panoff, Mariage et résidence dans trois districts de polynesie française, B.S.E.O., t2, 1962

Traditional law and colonial law:
• Cochin, L'application du droit civil et du droit pénal francais aux autochtones des E.F.O., thèse droit, Paris, 1947, 167p, Dactylographié

Missionary law and tradition law (droits coutumiers aux îles Marquises):
Réglementation spéciales aux îles Marquises, dans B.O. des E.F.O., 1863, n°6, p.43

Traditional law in the marquesas islands:
• Sheahan, Marquesan source materials , Quincy (Mass.), apud autorem, 1952, 207 p.
• Sheahan, A Marquesan bibliography, Quincy (Mass.), 1955, 58 p.
• Dordillon, Grammaire et dictionnaire de la langue des îles marquises., Paris, 1931-1932, 446+598 p. Travaux et mémoires de l'Instemut d'Ethnologie de Paris, t. 17-18
• Eyriaud des Vergnes, L'archipel des îles Marquises, Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1877, 98p
• Rollin, Un siècle d'histoire contemporaine: les îles Marquises, 1838-1938, Encyclopédie mensuelle d'outre-mer, Paris, n°26, 1952, p.312-316
• Jouan, Archipel des Marquises, Rev. coloniale, 2e série, t.18, 1957, 9.449-470;t.19, 1958
• Delmas, Essai d'histoire de la Mission des îles Marquises depuis les origines jusqu'en 1881, Paris, 1929
• Gracia, Lettres sur les îles Marquises, Paris, chez Gaume Frères, 1843, 310p.
• Handy, The native culture of the MarquesasBM, n°9, 1923
• Rollin, Les îles marquises, Paris, Soc. D'ed. Géogra. maremimes et coloniales, 1929, 334p
• Radiguet, Les derniers sauvages... La vie et les moeurs aux îles Marquises, Paris, 1842-1859, Ed. Anthropos, 1966, 328p.
• Maranda, Marquesan social structure: a ethnohistorical contribution, Ethnohistory, t.11, 1964, p.301-379
• Ishikawa, Population and settlement pattern in Fatuhiva..., Jap. Journal of ethnology, t.29, 1964, p.32-57
• Burnel, les îles Marquises, 1866, n°9, p37, n°10, p. 40-41, n°12, p. 48-49 et n°14, p. 56-57
• Delmas, La religion ou le paganisme, Paris, G.Beauchesne, 1927, 207p
• Otterbein, Marquesan Polyandry, in, Minneapolis, t.25, 1963, p155-159
• Ishikawa ,Fosterage in Fatuhiva... , Jap. Journal of ethnology, Tokyo, t.29, 1965, p.321-334


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