Culture and history in the Pacific /

Based on the papers given in the symposium Culture and history in the Pacific organized by the Academy of Finland, January 1987.

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INTRODUCTION 5
Jukka Siikala

HISTORY AND THE REPRESENTATION
OF POLYNESIAN SOCIETIES 9
Antony Hooper and Judith Huntsman

ARTEFACTS OF HISTORY
EVENTS AND THE INTERPRETATION OF IMAGES 25
Marilyn Strathern

DIARCHY AND HISTORY IN HAWAII AND TONGA 45
Valerio Valeri

UNDER THE TOA TREE
THE GENEALOGY OF THE TONGAN CHIEFS 80
Aletta Biersack

CHIEFS, GENDER AND HIERARCHY IN NGĀPŪTORU 107
Jukka Siikala

CLASS AND SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION IN OCEANIA 125
V. A. Shnirelman

NEW LESSONS FROM OLD SHELLS
CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ON THE KULA 139
Roger M. Keesing

GIFT EXCHANGE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY 164
John Liep

'CANOE TRAFFIC' OF THE TORRES STRAIT AND FLY
ESTUARY 184
David Lawrence

CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC
AND THE BARK CLOTH MAKING IN CENTRAL SULAWESI 202
Eija-Maija Kotilainen

THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF MUSIC PERFORMANCE
ON MANIHIKI 217
Helen Reeves Lawrence

THE 'GOLDEN SECTION' ON KITAWA ISLAND 233
Giancarlo M.G. Scoditti

DECIPHERMENT OF THE EASTER ISLAND SCRIPT 267
N. A. Butinov