Author: Feinberg, Richard
Title: Oral Traditions of Anuta : A Polynesian Outlier in the Solomon islands
Description: New York / Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998. orig.boards. 24x16cm, ix, 294 pp, Series: Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 13.. Minor rubbing. Side page-edges heavily bumped. Good. ¶ Contents: Motikitiki the Trickster & the Creation of Anuta; Peopling the Island; Early Invasions are Repulsed; Pu Raatu Goes to War in Tionga; The Chiefly Brethren's First Battle; Extermination of Anuta's Population & the Origin of the Four 'Clans'; War with Tikopia; Beginnings of the House of Pangatau; Adventures of Pu Rotomua; Love & War: Relations with Rotuma; Creation of a Second Chief & an Invasion from Tuvalu; The Warrior Friends: Pu Nevaneva & Pu Tokerau; Contacts of the Early European Period; The Dawn of a New Era.

Keywords: Polynesian Oral Literature, Anuta Island, Solomon islands, Polynesia, Anthropological, Anthropology, Ethnography, Linguistics, Folklore Myth