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Bibliography of the Cook Islands

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Last updated: 07 Feb 2005

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Bibliography of the Cook Islands

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Abraham, M.
1947 Report on Food Conditions in Rarotonga, Cook Islands. Noumea: South Pacific
Commission.

Ahlburg, Dennis A.
1991 Remittances and Their Impact: A Study of Tonga and Western Samoa. Pacific Policy
Monograph No. 7. Canberra: Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National
University.

1996 Demographic and Social Change in the Island Nations of the Pacific.
Asia-Pacific Population Research Reports 7:1-26.

Ahlburg, Dennis and Michael Levin
1990 The Northeast Passage: A Study of Pacific Islander Migration to American Samoa and the
United States. Pacific Research Monograph No. 23. Canberra: National Centre for Development
Studies, Australian National University.

Allen, Bryant J.
1968 Cook Islands Agricultural Development: The Mangaian Example. Comment: A New
Zealand Quarterly Review 10(1):31-4.

1969 The Development of Commercial Agriculture on Mangaia; Social and Economic Change in
a Polynesian Community. Unpublished thesis, Massey University, Palmerston North.

1971 Shorter Communications: Wet-Field Taro Terraces on Mangaia, Cook Islands. Journal of
the Polynesian Society 80(3):371-8.

Alpers, Anthony
1970 The World of the Polynesians. Auckland, New Zealand: Oxford University Press.

Altrocchi, John and Laurel Altrocchi
1995 Polyfaceted Psychological Acculturation in Cook Islands. Journal of Cross Cultural
Psychology 26:426-40.

Arbeit, Wendy 
1990 Baskets in Polynesia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Arnell, David and Lisette Wolk, eds.
1993 Visions of the Pacific. Rarotonga: Cook Islands Ministry of Cultural Development.

Asian Development Bank
1990 National Accounts of the Cook Islands: Technical Assistance Report. Manila: Statistics
Office, Office of the Prime Minister; Cook Islands: Economics and Development Resource
Center, Asian Development Bank.

1995 Cook Islands: Economic Performance, Issues and Strategies. Manila: Office of Pacific
Operations, Asian Development Bank.

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Baddeley, Josephine
1985 Traditional Healing Practices of Rarotonga, Cook Islands. In Claire D. Parsons, ed.,
Healing Practices in the South Pacific. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Barlow, Cleve
1991 Tikango Whakaaro: Key Concepts in Maori Culture. Auckland: Oxford University Press.

Barrow, Terence
1967 Women of Polynesia. Wellington: Seven Seas.

1979 The Art of Tahiti and the Neighboring Society, Austral and Cook Islands. London: Thames
and Hudson.

Bassett, I.G. and K.W. Thomson
1968 Land Use and Agrarian Change on Aitutaki, Cook Islands. South Pacific Bulletin
18(1):25-30.

Beaglehole Ernest and Pearl Beaglehole
1936a Myths, Stories, and Chants from Pukapuka. Honolulu: Reports of Bernice P. Bishop
Museum Pukapuka Expedition, 1934-1935 ; No. 2, Pt. 1.

1936b Pukapukan Place Names. Honolulu: Reports of Bernice P. Bishop Museum Pukapuka
Expedition, 1934-1935 ; No. 2, Pt. 3.

1936c Pukapukan Dictionary. Honolulu: Reports of Bernice P. Bishop Museum Pukapuka
Expedition, 1934-1935 ; No. 2, Pt. 4.

1936d Ethnology of Pukapuka: Field Notes, Miscellaneous. Honolulu: Reports of Bernice P.
Bishop Museum Pukapuka Expedition, 1934-1935 ; No. 2, Pt. 5.

1938 Ethnology of Pukapuka. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin No. 150.

1939 Brief Pukapukan Case History, Journal of the Polynesian Society 48:144-55.

1941 Personality Development in Pukapukan Children. In Leslie Spier, et. al., eds., Language,
Culture, and Personality: Essays in Memory of Edward Sapir. Menasha, Wisconsin: Sapir
Memorial Publication Fund.

Beaglehole, Ernest
1937 Emotional Release in a Polynesian Community. Journal of Abnormal and Social
Psychology 32:319-28.

1944 Islands of Danger. Wellington: Progressive Publishing Society.

1947 Trusteeship and New Zealand tm)s Pacific Dependencies. Journal of the Polynesian Society
56:128-157.

1948 Social and Political Changes in the Cook Islands. Camden, NJ: Institute of Pacific
Relations.

1957 Social Change in the South Pacific: Rarotonga and Aitutaki. London: Allen and Unwin.

1991 Pukapukan Dictionary Manuscript. Auckland: Pukapuka Dictionary Project, Department of
Anthropology, University of Auckland.

Beaglehole, Robert, Ian A.M. Prior, Mary A. Foulkes, and Elaine F. Eyles
1980 Death in the South Pacific. The New Zealand Medical Journal 91(660):375-8.

Beckett, Jeremy
1964 Social Change in Pukapuka. Journal of the Polynesian Society 73:411-30.

Bellam, Michael
1981 The Citrus Colony: New Zealand-Cook Islands Economic Relations. Wellington: New
Zealand Coalition for Trade and Development.

Bellwood, Peter
1969 Archaeology in Rarotonga and Aitutaki, Cook Islands. Journal of the Polynesian Society
78:517-30.

1971 Varieties of Ecological Adaptation in the Southern Cook Islands. Archaeology and
Physical Anthropology in Oceania 6:145-69.

1974 Prehistoric Contacts in the Cook Islands. Mankind 9:278-80.

1978 The Polynesians: Prehistory of an Island People. London: Thames and Hudson.

Boardman, D.W.
1973 Polynesian Immigrants: Migrating Process and Distribution in New Zealand. In S. Webb
and J. Collette, eds., New Zealand Society: Contemporary Perspectives, pp. 318-24. Sydney:
Wiley.

Bond, James
1953 A Bibliography of Publications in Cook Islands Maori. Sydney: South Pacific Commission.

Borofsky, Robert
1987 Making History: Pukapukan and Anthropological Constructions of Knowledge. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.

Browne, A. H.
1897 An Account of Some Early Ancestors of Rarotonga. Journal of the Polynesian Society
6:1-10.

Buck, Sir Peter H. [Te Rangi Hiroa]
1911 Aitutaki Moko: Some Tattoo Patterns. Dominion Museum Bulletin 3:98.

1927 The Material Culture of the Cook Islands (Aitutaki). New Plymouth, New Zealand:
Thomas Avery and Sons, Ltd.

1928 Fish Poisoning in Rarotonga. Journal of the Polynesian Society 37:57-66.

1932a Ethnology of Tongareva. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin No. 92.

1932b Ethnology of Manihiki and Rakahanga. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin No.
99.

1934 Mangaian Society. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin No. 122.

1938 Ethnology of Mangareva. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin No. 157.

1944 Arts and Crafts of the Cook Islands. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin No.
179.

1945 Introduction to Polynesian Anthropology. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin
No. 187.

1949 The Coming of the Maori. Wellington: Whitcombe and Tombs.

1953 Explorers of the Pacific: European and American Discoveries in Polynesia. Honolulu:
Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication No. 43.

Buse, Jasper
1963 Collection of Articles on Rarotonga Language. London: University of London, School of
Oriental and African Studies.

1995 Cook Islands Maori Dictionary. Rarotonga: Ministry of Education, Government of the
Cook Islands.

Buxton, P.A.
1928 Researches in Polynesia and Melanesia, 2 vols. London: London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine.

Buzacott, Aaron and J.P. Sunderland, eds.
1866 Mission Life in the Islands of the Pacific. London: John Snow.

Buzacott, Aaron
1857 Progress of the Gospel at Manihiki. Missionary Magazine and Chronicle 2 March: 58-60.

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Campbell, Ian C.
1989 A History of the Pacific Islands. Christchurch, New Zealand: University of Canterbury
Press.

Campbell, J.D.
1932 The "Paru Matau" of Rarotonga. Mankind 1:112-14.

Carpentier, Tepuaotera Turepu and Clive Beaumont
1995 Kai Korero: A Cook Islands Maori Language Coursebook. Auckland: Pasifika Press.

Challis, R. L.
1953 Social Problems of Non-Maori Polynesians in New Zealand. Sydney: South Pacific
Commission Technical Paper No. 41.

Chungue, E., J.-P. Boutin, L. Le Marchand, G. Philippon, A. Le Guellec, S. Chanteau, J.-L.
Cartel, C. Gras, P.M.V. Martin, and J.F. Roux
1993 Seroepidemiological Survey of HTLV-I Infection in French Polynesia, Cook Islands and
Fiji. European Journal of Epidemiology 9(3):347-53.

Church of Latter-Day Saints
1982 Rarotongan Maori for Missionaries. Salt Lake City, UT: Church of Latter-Day Saints.

Cockcroft, John
1968 Polynesian Isles of the South Pacific. Sydney: Angus and Robertson.

Collins, Lynn E.
1985 Intercultural Interpretation of Experience: A Phenomenological Approach. Doctoral
Dissertation, Columbia University.

Cook Islands Government
1992 Cook Islands Tourist Authority Statistical Bulletin. Avarua, Rarotonga: Government of the
Cook Islands.

Cook Islands
1984 Development Plan. Rarotonga, Cook Islands: The Islands.

Coppell, W.G.
1971 A Bibliography of the Cook Islands. np.

1972 The Moss Papers. Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes 28: 285-304.

1973 About the Cook Islands: Their Nomenclature and a Systematic Statement of Early
European Contacts. Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes 29:23-56.

Craig, Pippa L., Boyd A. Swinburn, Taiora Matenga-Smith, Havila Matengi, and Graham
Vaughn
1996 Do Polynesians Still Believe that Big is Beautiful? Comparison of Body Size Perceptions
and Preferences of Cook Islands Maori and Australians. New Zealand Medical Journal
109(1023):200-3.

Crocombe, Marjorie Tuainekore
1972 Ruatoka: A Polynesian in New Guinea History. Pacific Islands Monthly, Nov/Dec.

Crocombe, Marjorie Tuainekore, trans., ed.
1983 Cannibals and Converts: Radical Change in the Cook Islands, by Maretu, 1802-1880. Suva,
Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific.

Crocombe, Ronald G.
1983 Religious Cooperation in the Pacific Islands. Suva: University of the South Pacific.

1961 A Modern Polynesian Cargo Cult. Man 28:40-1.

1962 Development and Regression in New Zealand tm)s Island Territories. Pacific Viewpoint
3(2):17-32.

1964 Land Tenure in the Cook Islands. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

1967 From Ascendancy to Dependency: The Politics of Atiu. The Journal of Pacific History
2:97-111.

1979 Cook Islands Politics: The Inside Story. Auckland: Polynesian Press. ed.

1987a Land Tenure in the Atolls: Cook Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Tokelau, Tuvalu.
Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies of the University of the South Pacific.

1987b Land Tenure in the Pacific. Suva: University of the South Pacific.

1989 The South Pacific: An Introduction. Suva: University of the South Pacific.

1992 Pacific Neighbors. Canterbury, New Zealand: Centre for Pacific Studies.

1994 (Review) ’Äòakatokamanava tm): Myth, History and Society in the Southern Cook Islands.
American Ethnologist 21(1):211.

Crocombe, Ronald G. and Marjorie T. Crocombe
1961 Early Polynesian Authors: The Example of Ta tm)unga. Historical Studies, Australia and
New Zealand 10(37):92-3.

1968 The Works of Ta tm)unga. Pacific History Series, No. 2. Canberra: Australian National
University.

Crocombe, Ronald G. and Vaine Rere
1959 Naming in Atiu. Journal of the Polynesian Society 68:180-7.

Curson, Peter H.
1970 Polynesians and Residential Concentration in Auckland. Journal of the Polynesian Society
79:421-32.

1972 Population Change in the Cook Islands. The 1966 Population Census. New Zealand
Geographer 28:51-65.

1973 Birth, Death, and Migration: Elements of Population Change in Rarotonga 1890-1926.
New Zealand Geographer 29:51-65

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Davis, T. and L. Davis
1954 Doctor to the Islands. London: Michael Joseph.

1960 Makutu. London: Michael Joseph.

Davis, T.R.A.
1947 Rarotonga Today. Journal of the Polynesian Society 56:197-218.

1992 Island Boy. Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific.

Dixon, R. and T. Parima
1993 Mangaia and the Mission. Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South
Pacific.

Douglas, Norman and Ngaire Douglas
1990 Cook Islands: A Guide. Alstonville, NSW, Australia: Pacific Profiles.

Duerner, Frederick C.
1994 Television and Transition: The Cook Islands Experience, 1986-1993. Doctoral
Dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Dumbrell, Susan, Richard Taylor, George Koteka, and Koekoe Mokoputu
1984 Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Disease: Present Activities in the Cook
Islands: Report No. 2. Noumea: South Pacific Commission.

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Eastman, George H.
1974 A Rarotongan-English Dictionary. Rarotonga: Cook Islands Administration.

Ellis, William
1859 Polynesian Researches. London: Henry G. Bohn.

Emory, K.P.
1939 Manihiki Inlaid Bowls. Ethnologia Cranmorensis 4:20-6.

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Faine, S. and C. Hercus
1951 Nutritional Status of Cook Islanders. British Journal of Nutrition 5:327-42.

Finney, Ben
1973 Polynesian Peasants and Proletarians. Cambridge, MA: Schenkman.

1994 Voyage of Discovery: A Cultural Oddessy Through Polynesia. Berkeley: University of
California Press.

Fitzgerald, T.K.
1989 Coconuts and Kiwis: Identity and Change among Second-generation Cook Islanders in New
Zealand. Ethnic Groups 7:259-81.

Frazer, Roger M.
1974 Cook Islands Population Changes Since 1966. New Zealand Geographer 30(1):78-83.

Freeman, J.D. and W.R. Geddes
1959 Anthropology in the South Seas. New Plymouth: Avery Press.

Frisbie, R.
1930 The Book of Pukapuka. London: John Murray.

Fry, P.C.
1957a Dietary Survey on Rarotonga, Cook Islands I, General Description, Methods and Food
Habits. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 5:42-50.

1957b Dietary Survey on Rarotonga, Cook Islands II, Food Consumption in Two Villages.
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 5:260-73.

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Gill, William Wyatt
1856 Gems From the Coral Islands. London: Ward.

1876a Life in the Southern Isles. London: The Religious Tract Society.

1876b Myths and Songs from the South Pacific. London: Henry King and Co.

1880a Selections from the Autobiography of Reverend William Gill. London: Yates and
Alexander.

1880b Historical Sketches of Savage Life in Polynesia. Wellington: Government Printer.

1885 Jottings From the Pacific. London: Religious Tract Society.

1890 The Genealogy of the Kings of Rarotonga and Mangaia. Report of the Australian
Association for the Advancement of Science 2:323-53.

1892 The South Pacific and New Guinea: Past and Present. Sydney: Government Printer.

1894a From Darkness to Light in Polynesia. London: The Religious Tract Society.

1894b Mangaia (Hervey Islands). Australian Association of the Advancement of Science Reports
2:323-53.

1912 A Word About the Original Inhabitants of Pukapuka Island. Journal of the Polynesian
Society 21:120-4.

1915 The Origin of the Island of Manihiki. Journal of the Polynesian Society 24:144-51.

1916 Rarotongan Records, Being Extracts from the Papers of the Late Rev. W. Wyatt Gill. New
Plymouth, New Zealand: Polynesian Society.

1979 (1893) Cook Islands Custom. Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South
Pacific.

Gilson, Richard
1952 Administration of the Cook Islands. Unpublished thesis, University of London.

1955 The Background of New Zealand tm)s Early Land Policy in Rarotonga. Journal of the
Polynesian Society 64:267.

1980 (R. Crocombe, ed.) The Cook Islands 1820-1950. Wellington: Victoria University Press
and the Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific.

Gold, E.
1945 The Birth Ropes of Mangaia and Some Superstitions. Journal of the Polynesian Society 54.

Goldman, Irving
1955 Status, Rivalry and Cultural Evolution in Polynesia. American Anthropologist 57:680-97.

1957 Variations in Polynesian Social Organization. Journal of the Polynesian Society 66:374-90.

1970 Ancient Polynesian Society: Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Gosset, R.W.G.
1940 Notes on the Discovery of Rarotonga. Australian Geographer 3(8):4-15.

Graves, Nancy B. and Theodore D. Graves
1975 The Impact of Modernization on the Personality of a Polynesian People, or, How to Make
an Up-tight, Rivalrous Westerner out of an Easygoing, Generous Pacific Islander. South Pacific
Research Institute Inc., Research Report No. 7.

Graves, Nancy B.
1974 Inclusive Versus Exclusive Interaction Styles in Polynesian and European Classrooms: In
Search of an Alternative to the Cultural Deficit Model of Learning. South Pacific Research
Institute Inc., Research Report No. 5.

Graves, Theodore D. and Nancy B. Graves
1976 Demographic Changes in the Cook Islands: Perceptions and Reality: Or, Where Have All
The Mapu Gone? Journal of the Polynesian Society 85(4):447-61.

Grimshaw, Beatrice
1971 In The Strange South Seas. New York: Books For Libraries Press.

Gruning, E.L.
1937 Notes on Burial Caves in the Cook Group, South Pacific. Ethnologia Cranmorensis 1:21-5.

Gudgeon, W.E.
1904 Phallic Emblems from Atiu Islands. Journal of the Polynesian Society 13:210-12.

1907 The Origin of the Ta-tatau or Heraldic Marks at Aitutaki Island. Journal of the Polynesian
Society 14:217-18.

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Haas, Anthony, ed.
1977 New Zealand and the South Pacific: A Guide to Economic Development in the Cook
Islands, Fiji, Niue, Tonga, and Western Samoa. Wellington: Asia Pacific Research Unit.

Hancock, Kathleen
1979 Sir Albert Henry. Auckland: Methuen Publications.

Harding, Thomas G. and Ben J. Wallace, eds.
1970 Cultures of the Pacific: Selected Readings. New York: The Free Press.

Hecht, Julia
1976 Double Descent and Cultural Symbolism in Pukapuka, Northern Cook Islands. Ph.D.
Dissertation, University of Chicago.

1977 The Culture of Gender in Pukapuka: Male, Female and the Mayakitanga ’ÄòSacred Maid. tm)
Journal of the Polynesian Society 86:183-206.

1985 Physical and Social Boundaries in Pukapukan Theories of Disease. In Claire D. Parsons,
ed., Healing Practices in the South Pacific. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Hickling, H.H.
1945 Notes on the Adoption and Naming of Children in Mangaia. Journal of the Polynesian
Society 54:83-6.

Hillas, Julian
1937 Captain Goodenough Visits Rarotonga. Pacific Islands Monthly (23 March):49-50.

Hixson, Robert
1979 How to Learn Maori Rarotongan Style. Provo, UT: Missionary Training Center.

Hooper, Anthony
1958 Social Relations among Cook Islanders. Unpublished thesis, University of London.

1961a The Migration of Cook Islanders to New Zealand. Journal of the Polynesian Society
70(1):11-17.

1961b Cook Islanders in Auckland. Journal of the Polynesian Society 70:147-93.

Howard, Alan and Robert Borofsky, eds.
1989 Developments in Polynesian Ethnology. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Hughes, Helen, Dennis A. Ahlburg, and Sun-Hee Lee
1986 Human Resources Development in the Pacific Islands Developing Countries. In Human
Resources Development in Asia and the Pacific: Its Social Dimension, pp. 82-118. Bangkok:
UNESCO.

Hutchin, J.J.K.
1904 Traditions and Some Words of the Language of Danger or Pukapuka Island. Journal of the
Polynesian Society 13:173-176.

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Idiens, Dale
1990 Cook Islands Art. Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, UK: Shire Publications.

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James, H. Bond
1953 A Bibliography of Publications in Cook Islands Maori. Sydney: South Pacific Commission.

Johnston, Kenneth M.
1967 Village Agriculture in Aitutaki, Cook Islands. Wellington: Department of Geography,
Victoria University of Wellington, Pacific Viewpoint Monograph No. 1.

Jonassen, Jon
1981 Cook Islands Legends. Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific.

1992 The Ghost at Tokatarava and Other Stories. Auckland: Institute of Pacific Studies,
University of the South Pacific and Polynesian Press.

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Katayama, Kazumichi and Akira Tagaya, eds.
1988 People of the Cook Islands, Past and Present: A Report of the Physical Anthropological
and Linguistic Research in the Cook Islands in 1985-1987. Rarotonga: Cook Islands Library and
Museum Society.

Kauraka, Kauraka
1983 Legends from the Atolls. Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies.

1988 Manihikian Traditional Narratives: In English and Manihikian: Stories of the Cook Islands
[Na fakahiti o Manihiki]. Papatoetoe, New Zealand: Te Ropu Kahurangi.

Kautai, Ngatupuna, Teatu Kura Malcolm, Paiere Mokorao, Tatuava Tanga, Terepai Tanga,
Vainerere Tangatapoto, Tekura Tatuava, and Tane Ra Touna
1989 Atiu: An Island Community. Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South
Pacific.

Keesing, Felix M.
1953 Social Anthropology in Polynesia. London: Oxford University Press.

Kernahan, Mel
1995 White Savages in the South Pacific. London; New York: Verso.

Kloosterman, Alphons M.J.
1976 Discoverers of the Cook Islands and the Names They Gave. Rarotonga, Cook Islands: Cook
Islands Library and Museum Society.

Kooijman, Simon 
1972 Tapa in Polynesia. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum PressBulletin
234.

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Lambert, S.M.
1926 Health Survey of the Cook Islands, With Special Reference to Hookworm Disease.
Appendices to the Journal of the House of Representatives A-3:39.

1928 Medical Conditions in the South Pacific. Medical Journal of Australia 2:363.

1933 Some Polynesian Medical Superstitions Encountered in the Cook Islands. Journal of
Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 36:189-192.

1941 A Yankee Doctor in Paradise. Boston: Little Brown.

1942 A Doctor in Paradise. London: J.M. Dent.

Lamont, E. H.
1867 Wild Life Among the Pacific Islanders. London: Hurst and Blackett.

Lange, Raeburn T.
1982 A History of Health and Ill-Health in the Cook Islands. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis,
University of Otago.

1984 Plagues and Pestilence in Polynesia: The Nineteenth Century Cook Islands Experience.
Bulletin of the History of Medicine 58:325-46.

1986 Changes in Rarotongan Attitudes Toward Health and Disease: Historical Factors in the
Development of a Mid-Twentieth Century Understanding. Pacific Studies 10(1):29-53.

1988 European Medicine in the Cook Islands. In Roy MacLoed and Milton Lewis, eds.,
Disease, Medicine, and Empire: Perspectives on Western Medicine and the Experience of
European Expansion, pp. 61-79. London: Routledge.

Large, J.T.
1913 Some Notes on Atiu Island. Journal of the Polynesian Society 22:67-76.

Larson, Heidi J., ed.
1995 The State of Pacific Children, 1995. Suva: United Nations Children tm)s Fund.

Lockwood, Victoria S., Thomas G. Harding, and Ben J. Wallace, eds.
1993 Contemporary Pacific Societies: Studies in Development and Change. Englewood Cliffs:
Prentice Hall.

Lovett, Richard
1899 History of the London Missionary Society 1795-1895. London: Oxford University Press.
1902 James Chalmers, His Autobiography and Letters. London: Religious Tract Society.

Low, D.
1943 Birth and Allied Customs in Aitutaki. Journal of the Polynesian Society 52:199-201.

Lucett, Edward
1851 Rovings in the Pacific from 1837-1849, With a Glance at California. London: Longman,
Brown, Green, and Longmans.

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MacCauley, John J.
1988 Te ata o Ikurangi (The Shadow of Ikurangi). Rarotonga: Cook Islands Library and
Museum Society.

MacGregor, G.
1935 Notes on the Ethnology of Pukapuka. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Occasional
Papers, 11(6).

MacKenzie, Margaret
1973a Why Hasn tm)t Maori Medicine Died Out Since International Medicine Came to
Rarotonga? Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

1973b Cultural and Social Aspects of Preschool Children tm)s Health in Rarotonga, Cook
Islands. Unpublished thesis, University of Chicago.

1974 Balance and Counterbalance: Alcohol but not Alcoholism in Rarotonga, Cook Islands,
Polynesia.

Makiuti, Tongia
1991 Learning Rarotongan Maori. Rarotonga: Ministry of Cultural Development.

Maretu
1911a Ko te Taeanga mai O te Pai O Kurunaki ki Rarotonga Nei, Mataiti 1820 (The Coming of
Goodenough tm)s Ship to Rarotonga). Journal of the Polynesian Society 20.

1911b E Tuatua No te Kai Tangata I Rarotonga (A Word About Cannibalism in Rarotonga).
Journal of the Polynesian Society 20:196-209.

Marshall, Patrick
1927 Geology of Mangaia. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Press.

1930 Geology of Rarotonga and Atiu. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin No. 72.

Matenga-Smith, Taiora
1990 Cook Islands Cook Book. Rarotonga: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South
Pacific.

Maude, H.E. and Marjorie T. Crocombe
1962 Rarotongan Sandalwood: An Ethno-historical Reconstruction. Journal of the Polynesian
Society 71:32-56

McArthur, Norma
1968 Island Populations of the Pacific. Canberra: Australian National University Press.

McCarthy, D.D.
1959 Filariasis in the Cook Islands. New Zealand Medical Journal 58:739.

McDermott, John W. and Bobbye McDermott
1979 How To Get Lost and Found in the Cook Islands. Honolulu: ORAFA Publishing Co.

McKenzie, A.
1925 Observations on Filariasis, Yaws, and Intestinal Helminthic Infections in the Cook Islands.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 19:144-5.

Milne, Simon
1987 The Economic Impact of Tourism in the Cook Islands. Auckland: Department of
Geography, University of Auckland.

Montgomery, J.
1831 Journal of Voyages and Travels by the Rev. Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet Esq. in
the South Sea Islands... 1821-9. London:

Morrell, W.P.
1960 Britain in the Pacific Islands. London: Oxford University Press.

Moss, Frederick J.
1894a Maori Policy. Wellington: New Zealand Parliamentary Papers A3.

1894b The Maori Polity on the Island of Rarotonga. Journal of the Polynesian Society 3:20-6.

Moyle, Richard M.
1985 Report on Survey of Traditional Music of Northern Cook Islands. Private Bag, Auckland:
Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland.

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Neale, T.
1966 An Island to Oneself. London: Collins.

New Zealand Department of Island Territories
19?? Reports of the Cook, Niue, and Tokelau Islands. Wellington: The Department, 1953-1965.

New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1973 South Pacific Trade 1972: A Study of Trade and Economic Development in the Five
Members of the South Pacific Forum: The Cook Islands, Fiji, Nauru, Tonga, Western Samoa.
Wellington: Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Nicholas, H.
1892 Genealogies and Historical Notes from Rarotonga, Part I. Journal of the Polynesian
Society 1:20-9.

1892 Genealogies and Historical Notes from Rarotonga, Part II. Journal of the Polynesian
Society 1:65-75.

1893 Genealogies and Historical Notes from Rarotonga, Part III. Journal of the Polynesian
Society 2:271-9.

Numa, John A.
1965 The Cook Islands Medical Practitioners tm) Service (1932-1965). Cook Islands Medical
Journal 1:4-7.

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Office of Public Programs, East-West Center
1993 Cook Islands in Brief. Honolulu: The Center.

Office of the Resident Representative, United Nations Development Programme
1987 Report on Development Co-operation Covering the Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa, and
Tokelau. Apia, Western Samoa: The Office.

1988 Development Co-operation Report for Western Samoa, Cook Islands, Niue, and Tokelau.
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