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Lali: Looking Back

December 31, 2017 ~ Kelly Dunagan ~ 2 Comments

Lali: A Pacific Anthology, ed. Albert Wendt, 1980

  • Cook Islands, #5; Tonga, #2; Samoa, #2; Niue, #1; Fiji, #1; Vanuatu, #1; Solomon Islands, #1; Papua New Guinea, #7; Kiribati, #2
  • £13.84 from Amazon.co.uk
  • Read: September 2015-December 2016
  • Rating: 3/5
  • Recommended for: Moana groupies

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Tales of the Tikongs: What’s the point of all this, anyway?

July 28, 2016December 31, 2017 ~ Kelly Dunagan ~ 3 Comments

Tales of the Tikongs, Epeli Hau’ofa, 1988

  • Tonga, #4
  • Borrowed from SF library
  • Read November 2015
  • Rating: 3/5
  • Recommended for: Mack and the boys

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An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands: Wikipedia FTW

July 13, 2016January 4, 2017 ~ Kelly Dunagan ~ 3 Comments

An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean, vol. 1, John Martin and William Mariner, 1827

  • Tonga, #1
  • Free from Google Books
  • Read November-December 2015
  • Rating: 2/5
  • Recommended for: sticklers for detail

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Monday Miscellany: Polynesian poetry

May 30, 2016December 31, 2017 ~ Kelly Dunagan ~ 1 Comment

While researching my post on Dreams of a Rainbow I read a fair amount of poetry from around Polynesia (both to try to situate Kauraka’s poetry more firmly in the Polynesian tradition and figure out whether it was objectively mediocre or whether I was just missing something). This is a bit of a long one, so links after the jump.

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