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Anthropology -- Polynesia

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• Ethnology -- Polynesia

• Memoirs of the Polynesian Society (partial serial archives)

• Developments in Polynesian Ethnology (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, c1989), ed. by Alan Howard and Robert Borofsky (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)
• Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin (partial serial archives)
• An Introduction to Polynesian Anthropology (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #187; Honolulu: The Museum, 1945), by Peter Henry Buck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Out of Time: History and Evolution in Anthropological Discourse (second edition, with new afterword; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1996), by Nicholas Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Introduction to Polynesian Anthropology (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #187; Honolulu: The Museum, 1945), by Peter Henry Buck (page images at HathiTrust)

• Samoan House Building, Cooking, and Tattooing (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #15; Honolulu: The Museum, 1924), by E. S. Craighill Handy and Willowdean C. Handy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Samoan Material Culture (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #75; Honolulu: The Museum, 1930), by Peter Henry Buck (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Samoa (in German; Berlin: W. Süsserott, ca. 1902), by Franz Reinecke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• American Samoa (Department of Marine Biology v20, Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #341; 1924), by William Albert Setchell (page images at HathiTrust)

• "First Contacts" in Polynesia: The Samoan Case (1722-1848); Western Misunderstandings about Sexuality and Divinity (2008), by Serge Tcherkézoff (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• "First Contacts" in Polynesia: The Samoan Case (1722-1848); Western Misunderstandings about Sexuality and Divinity (2008), by Serge Tcherkézoff (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Samoan Material Culture (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #75; Honolulu: The Museum, 1930), by Peter Henry Buck (multiple formats at archive.org)

• "First Contacts" in Polynesia: The Samoan Case (1722-1848); Western Misunderstandings about Sexuality and Divinity (2008), by Serge Tcherkézoff (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• O le Tafatolu o au Measina: Samoa (in Samoan; Wellington, NZ: Dept. of Communication of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand, 1995), by Fepulea'i Seuao F. Taeao Salua (page images at HathiTrust)

• "First Contacts" in Polynesia: The Samoan Case (1722-1848); Western Misunderstandings about Sexuality and Divinity (2008), by Serge Tcherkézoff (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Memoirs of the Polynesian Society (partial serial archives)

• The Maori and His Religion in Its Non-Ritualistic Aspects (new edition; HAU Classics series #1; c2012), by J. Prytz-Johansen, contrib. by Marshall Sahlins (HTML and PDF files at haujournal.org)
• Maori Religion and Mythology, Illustrated by Translations of Traditions, Karakia, &c., to Which Are Added Notes on Maori Tenure of Land (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1882), by Edward Shortland (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• The Hawaiian Planter, Volume I: His Plants, Methods and Areas of Cultivation (only volume published; Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #161; Honolulu: The Museum, 1940), by E. S. Craighill Handy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii (Honolulu: Kamehameha Schools Press, c1961), by Samuel Manaiakalani Kamakau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii (Honolulu: Kamehameha Schools Press, c1961), by Samuel Manaiakalani Kamakau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement and Political Manipulation at America's Largest Charitable Trust (originally published 2006; open access edition Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2017), by Samuel P. King and Randall W. Roth
  • multiple formats with commentary at Hawaii
  • HTML at Project MUSE

• Archaeology of Kahoolawe (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #115; Honolulu: The Museum, 1933), by J. Gilbert McAllister (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Archaeology of Kauai (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #80; Honolulu: The Museum, 1931), by Wendell Clark Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Archaeology of Nihoa and Necker Islands (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #53; Honolulu: The Museum, 1928), by Kenneth P. Emory (page images at HathiTrust)

• Archaeology of Nihoa and Necker Islands (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #53; Honolulu: The Museum, 1928), by Kenneth P. Emory (page images at HathiTrust)

• Archaeology of Oahu (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #104; Honolulu: The Museum, 1931), by J. Gilbert McAllister (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Maoris and Their Arts (American Museum of Natural History Guide Leaflet #71; 1928), by Margaret Mead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of Maoriland (London: W. Clowes and Sons, ca. 1910), by Ellen Ida Massy
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Who Are the Maoris? (Christchurch et al.: Whitcombe and Tombs, n.d.), by Alfred K. Newman (page images in New Zealand)
• Tragedies in New Zealand in 1868 and 1881: Discussed in England in 1886 and 1887 (selected proceedings from the Bryce v. Rusden libel case; London and Bungay: Printed privately by R. Clay and Sons, 1888), ed. by George William Rusden, contrib. by Great Britain High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division (1880-1901)
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Trip to Maoriland (Lake Placid, NY: Office of The Lake Placid news, c1907), by Pākehā-Māori
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• History of and Guide to the Wanganui River (Wanganui: Wanganui Herald Newspaper Co., 1921), by T. W. Downes, contrib. by J. H. Burnet
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Tarawera Eruption, 1886 (London: Proprietor of the "Empire Review", ca. 1903), by Ellen Ida Massy (illustrated HTML in New Zealand)

• A Bibliography of Printed Maori to 1900 (Dominion Museum monograph #7; 1924), by Herbert W. Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Legends of the Maori (2 volumes; originally published 1930-1934), by Maui Pomare and James Cowan
  • Volume I: multiple formats with commentary in New Zealand
  • Volume II: multiple formats with commentary in New Zealand

• Why Reject the Treaty? A Maori-Pakeha Viewpoint (2008), by Emily Bailey (PDF with commentary at Rebel Press)
• The Maori Messenger (Ko te Karere Maori) (partial serial archives)
• Te Manuhiri Tuarangi Maori Intelligencer (1861) (full serial archives)

• The Stirring Times of Te Rauparaha (Chief of the Ngatitoa); The Sacking of Kaiaphoia (Christchurch, NZ et al.: Whitcombe and Tombs, ca. 1906), by W. T. Locke Travers and James West Stack
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Maori and Settler: A Story of the New Zealand War (London et al.: Blackie and Son, n.d.), by G. A. Henty, illust. by Alfred Pearse
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The History of the Church Missionary Society in New Zealand (revised edition; Wellington: New Zealand Church Missionary Society, 1935), by Eugene Stock (multiple formats in New Zealand)

• The Anglo Maori Warder (1848) (full serial archives)
• The Maori Messenger (Ko te Karere Maori) (partial serial archives)
• The Maori Record: A Journal Devoted to the Advancement of the Maori People (1905-1907) (full serial archives)
• Te Manuhiri Tuarangi Maori Intelligencer (1861) (full serial archives)

• Ethnology of Easter Island (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #160; Honolulu: The Museum, 1940), by Alfred Métraux (page images at HathiTrust)

• Arts and Crafts of the Cook Islands (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #179; Honolulu: The Museum, 1944), by Peter Henry Buck (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tongan Society (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 61; Honolulu: The Museum, 1929), by Edward Winslow Gifford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Archaeology of Tonga (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #60; Honolulu: The Museum, 1929), by W. C. McKern (page images at HathiTrust)

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