Rotuma: hanua pumue Precious Land - Softcover
Off the main island of Rotuma is Hofliua, or Split Island. Legend has it that a hermit crab challenged a swordfish to a race from Tonga to Rotuma. By spacing his hermit crab friends along the way, right up to the beach at Rotuma, the crab tricked the swordfish into believing he had won. Twice they raced, and twice the crab deceived his friend. On the third occasion, the angered swordfish put all his effort into victory. As he approached Rotuma, he was travelling so fast that he sliced through the small offshore island of Hofliua, cutting it forever in two.
Today, perhaps, the swordfish is Modernization. It has split the Rotuman people between yesterday and tomorrow, the old and the new. It has split them, too, across hundreds of miles of ocean so that, now, over sixty percent live in Fiji.
This book describes aspects of Rotuma's unique culture and the tensions faced today as the twentieth century invades its isolation.
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- PublisherInstitute of Pacific Studies
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 9820200350
- ISBN 13 9789820200357
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages267
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Rotuma: Hanua Pumue, Precious Land
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Institute of Pacific Studies of the University of the South Pacific
(1991)
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Revised Enlarged Edition. Binding firm, interior clean and unmarked. 16 papers by Rotuman authors on the island's unique culture and modern strains on it. 267pp. Bibliography. B/w illus. Revised Edition. Seller Inventory # CORV-BBP-10988
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Book Description Revised enlarged edition of the 1977 original. XVI, 267 PP with diagrams, tables, 2 maps and 13 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 20.8 x 14.7. Hanua Pumue: Precious land. History, superstition and religion by Ieli Irava. Mission influence on seculiar life by John Tanu. Seller Inventory # 33467
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Rotuma: Hanua Pumue = Rotuma, precious land
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. xiv, 267 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm. Summary:". The aim of the publication has been to present various facets of Rotuma's culture and the changes faced by the Rotuman people today. With three exceptions, the authors are all Rotuman, telling their own tales of Rotuma's uniqueness in depth for the first time. They relate aspects of Rotuma's geography and history as well as the influence of the missions and colonial attempts to govern land tenure. The marriage and mamasa ceremonies are described in detail, and the different dance forms and certain chants. A major section focuses on the network of kinship links which forms the basis of Rotuma's social and political system. Almost all of the authors are concerned indirectly with the process of change affecting Rotuman society, and three chapters describe the physical manifestation of this: the emigration of Rotumans to Fiji, the need for childen to leave the island for higher education, and the communities established away from home ." -- Foreword p. ix. Seller Inventory # 2rxb12
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