Cook Islands Culture: Akono'anga Maori

by Ron Crocombe (Editor)

Culture has many faces. People are most aware of the creative arts - dance, song, chant, drama, carving, painting, weaving, tattoo, oral tradition and written literature, sports and games, as well as other forms of expression such as the symbols of national identity. Other equally important and more basic aspects od culture are also touched on here, including language, religion, rites of passage, personality and cultural aspects of food. This book views key elements of Cook Islands culture from within as it is, as it was, and as it may become.

370 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003