Modern Anthropology/Culture Studies & Polynesia

Ruth Finnegan and Margaret Orbell, eds.:  South Pacific Oral Traditions (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995)

Margaret Mead:  Coming of Age in Somoa (1928; New York: Morrow Quill Paperbacks, 1961)

Marshall Sahlins:  How "Natives" Think, about Captain Cook, for Example (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995)

Marshall Sahlins:  Islands of History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985)

Greg Dening:  Mr Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theatre on the Bounty (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)

Rob Wilson: Reimagining the American Pacific: From "South Pacific" to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000)