Item 10 - Te Rangi Hiroa Essays 1972.

Includes the following essays: Sister M. Paula Christine smsm (Sweeney), “Themes of Conflict and Unity in Samoa from Pre-contact to the Steinberger Regime” ; John Weissel, “A critical examination of Douglas Oliver’s statement that, ‘Many villages and small islands being almost entirely stripped of their male population, with unfortunate effects on their economy and social life… and that so far from being civilised by their experience, as Towns and others claimed, those who have been most often and longest away are generally the worst and most dangerous characters”, 13pp ; Jim Tarr, “A Critical Discussion of D. Oliver’s allegation that ‘When the sandalwood became scarce and natives reluctant, persuasion was used – kidnapping, village destruction, and murder. White-introduced diseases were even more devastating than guns and alcohol, and many communities were literally wiped out”, 11pp ; Yukio M, Shmull (UPNG), “Modekngei: Palauan Religion”, 30 May 1972, 8pp ; Jeremiah Tetaga, “The Wartime Experience of Mr Danks Tomila, a Tolai from Baai Village”, 14pp ; A.H. Townsend (University of Auckland), “Exchange Patterns and Trading in Tonga at the Time of Early Contact”, 1972, 11pp.