Tahiti: A Selective Bibliography

Prepared by Karen Peacock, PhD
Pacific Curator, Hamilton Library
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
May 1997

(A selective bibliography prepared for a course, Pacific Islands Information Resources. The call numbers are for the Pacific Collection, Hamilton Library, University of Hawai'i at Manoa.)

Bibliography

O'Reilly, Patrick and Edouard Reitman.: Bibliographie de Tahiti et de la Polynésie Française. Paris: Musée de l'Homme, 1967. 1046p. *Pacc Z4501 .073

Encyclopedias and Handbooks

Encyclopedie de la Polynésie.: Tahiti: C. Glizal/Multipress, 1986-1988. 9v. Pacc DU870.2.K39 1988

Saquet, Jean-Louis.: The Tahiti Handbook: Te Fenua. Tahiti: Editions Avant et Apres, 1992. 144p. Pac Ready Ref DU 870.25 .S25 1992

Stanley, David.: Tahiti Handbook. 4th ed. Emeryville, CA: Moon Handbooks, 1999. 435p. Pac Ready Ref DU870 .S73 1999 Also CIS Ref. (For latest edition check website at http://www.southpacific.org/tahiti.html.)[revised on 1/29/03 - by courtesy of the author)

Wheeler, Tony.: Tahiti & French Polynesia: a travel survival kit. 4th ed. Hawthorn, Vic., Australia: Lonely Planet, 1997. 394p. Pacc Ready ref DU870.2 .K39 Also CIS Ref

General

Christian, Erwin and Raymond Bagnis.: Islands of Tahiti. Bora Bora, Fr. Polyn.: Kea Editions. 288p. Translation of Les Iles de Tahiti (1983).; Pacc DU870 .C48513 1988

Christian, Erwin and Emmanuel Vigneron.: Tahiti vu du ciel. Singapour: Editions du Pacifique, 1989. 128p. Pacc DU870.2 .C47 1989

France, Oceania and Australia, past and present.: Edited by Robert Aldrich. Sydney: Dept. of Economic History, Univ. of Sydney, 1991. 203p. Pacc DU50 .F726 1991 Also HL

Leimbach, Claire.: Tahiti: celebration of life/Glorie a la Vie/Heiva i Tahiti. Avalon, NSW: Pacific Bridge, 1995. 1 v. unpaged; chiefly color illus. Pacc f DU870 .L456 1995

Margueron, Daniel.: Tahiti dans toute sa litterature: essai sur Tahiti et ses îles dans la litterature française de la decouverte a nos jours. Paris: Editions l'Harmattan, 1989. 469p. Pacc PQ145.7 .T3 M37 1989

Poirine, Bernard.: Three essays from French Polynesia. Kensington, NSW: Centre for South Pacific Studies, Univ. of New South Wales, 1993. 73p. Pacc HC688 .P65 1993

Pollock, Nancy and Ron Crocombe, eds.: French Polynesia: A book of selected readings. Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies at the University of the South Pacific, 1988. 305p. Pacc DU8970 .F8 1988

Prince, Jan.: Tahiti and her islands. Papeete, Tahiti: Tahiti Tourist Promotion Board, 1990. 74p. Pacc DU870.2 .P75 1990

Vigneron, Emmanuel.: La Polynesie Francaise. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1995. 127p. Pacc DU870 .V645 1995

Biography

O'Reilly, Patrick and Raoul Teissier.: Tahitiens: repertoire biographique de la Polynésie Française. 2d ed. revue, corrigee, et augm. Paris: Musée de l'Homme, 1975. 670p. Pacc DU870 .O6 1975

Geography

Atlas de la Polynésie Francaise. Paris: Editions de l'ORSTOM, 1993. Pacc f G2970 .A75 1993 Also HL Ref.

Statistics

Institut Territorial de la Statistique (French Polynesia).: Te Aveia. Papeete, Tahiti, 1980- . Pacc HC681 .F7A93

Osman, Wali M.: French Polynesia economic report/Rapport economique sur la Polynesie Francaise. Honolulu: Bank of Hawaii, Economics Dept., 1996. 36p. In Eng. and French. Pacc HC688 .075 1996

La Polynesie en Bref/Polynesia at a glance.: Papeete, Tahiti: Institut Territorial de la Statistique, 1986- . Annual. Pacc HC688 .A1P65 (latest rec'd = 1996)

Current Affairs

La Depêche.: Papeete, Tahiti: Société Polynésienne de Presse, 1979- . "Le Journal de Tahiti." In French. Pacc Newspaper Stacks.

Journal Officiel de la Polynésie Française.: Te Vea a te Hau no Polynesia farani. Papeete, Tahiti: Impr. du Gouvernement, 1957- . In French. Pacc J8 F82

Les Nouvelles.: Papeete, Tahiti, 1958- . "Le Premier Quotidien de Tahiti." In French. Pacc Newspaper Stacks

Tahiti-Pacifique.: Moorea, French Polynesia: Tahiti-Pacifique Magazine, 1991- . Monthly. Pacc DU870 .A2T33

History -- General

Aldrich, Robert.: France and the South Pacific since 1940. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1993. 413p.; Pacc DU50 .A39 1993 Also HL.

__________.: The French presence in the South Pacific, 1842-1940. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990. 387p.; Pacc DU50 .A4 1990

Henningham, Stephen.: France and the South Pacific: a contemporary history. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1992. 292p. South Sea Books. Pacc DU50 .H46 1992 Also HL.

Moorehead, Alan.: The fatal impact: an account of the invasion of the South Pacific, 1767-1840. Honolulu: Tales of the Pacific, 1988 (c1966). 230p. Pacc G246 .C7M6 1988

History -- Tahiti

Babadzan, Alain.: Les depouilles des dieux: essai sur la réligion tahitienne a l`epoque de la découverte. Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1993. 340p. Pacc BL2620 .S63B33 1993

Bare, Jean-François.: Tahiti, Les Temps et les Pouvoirs: pour une anthropologie historique du Tahiti Post-Européen. Paris: Editions de l'ORSTOM, 1987. 543p. Pacc DU870 .B37 1987

Barratt, Glynn.: The Tuamotu Islands and Tahiti. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1992. 298p. Pacc DU113.5 .S65 B37 1988 v.4 Also HL.

Barre, Jean-Michel.: Lectures Polynésiennes. Papeete, Tahiti: Editions du Pacifique, 1984. Pacc DU520 .L43 1984

Gleizal, Christian and Bengt Danielsson.: Papeete, 1818-1990. Papeete: C.Gleizal/Cobalt-Mairie de Papeete, 1990. 207p. Pacc DU870.9 .P3 1990

Langdon, Robert.: Tahiti: island of love. 4th ed. Sydney: Pacific Publications, 1972. 284p. Pacc DU870 .L3 972

Mazellier, Philippe.: Tahiti, de l'atome a l'autonomie. Papeete: Hibiscus Editions, 1979. 576p. In French. Pacc DU870.75 .M38

__________. Bengt Danielsson; Marie Therese Danielsson.: Le Mémorial Polynésien. Tahiti: Hibiscus Editions, 1977-1980. 6v. In French. Pacc DU510 .M39

Oliver, Douglas L.: Ancient Tahitian society. Honolulu: Univ. Press of Hawaii, 1974. 3v. Pacc DU870.4 .O55

Pritchard, George.: The aggressions of the French at Tahiti and other islands in the Pacific. Edited by Paul de Deckker. Auckland: Auckland Univ. Press, 1983. 253p. Pacc DU870 .P75 1983

Toullelan, Pierre-Yves.: Le mariage franco-tahitien: histoire de Tahiti du XVIIIe siecle a nos jours. Editions Polymages-Scoop, 1992. 173p. Pacc DU870.5 .T68 1992

__________.: Missionnaires au quotidien a Tahiti: les Picpuciens en Polynesie au XIXe siecle. Leiden; NY: EJ Brill, 1995. 342p. PaccBV3680 .T2 T68 1995

Ethnology -- Tahiti

Bovis, Edmond de.: Tahitian society before the arrival of the Europeans. 2d ed. Laie, HI: Inst. for Polynesian Studies, BYU-HI Campus, 1980. 75p. Pacc DU870 .B63 1980 Also HL.

Cizeron, Marc.: Tahiti, the other side. Translated by Kushman Patel. English ed. Suva: Inst. of Pacific Studies, USP in assoc. with Editions Haere Po No Tahiti, 1985. 147p. Pacc DU870.4 .C5913 1985

Ferdon, Edwin N.: Early Tahiti as the explorers saw it, 1767-1797. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press, 1971. Pacc GN671 .S55F47

Finney, Ben R.: Polynesian peasants and proletarians. Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Pub. Co., 1973. 147p. Pacc HC687 .T3F55

Levy, Robert I. and Pierre Heyman.: Tahitians: Mind and experience in the Society Islands. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1973. 547p.; Pacc DU870.4 .L48

Oliver, Douglas.: Ancient Tahitian society (see above, under History).

__________.: Two Tahitian villages: a case study in comparisons. Laie, HI: Inst. for Polynesian Studies, 1981. 557p.; Pacc DU870.4 .O56 Also HL.

French Nuclear Testing

Barnes, Bruce E.: The French nuclear tests in the South Pacific: Case study of an international environmental dispute. Honolulu, HI: Program on Conflict Resolution, UH, 1987. 56p. Hawn HM136 .W677 no.1987-7.

Barrillot, Bruno.: Les essais nucleaires francais, 1960-1996: consequences sur l'environement et la sante. Lyon: Centre de Documentation et de Recherche sur la Paix et les Conflits, 1996. 383p. Pacc UF890 .E88 1996

Burrows, Andrew S.: French nuclear testing, 1960-1988. Washington, DC: Natural Defense Resources Council, 1989. 57p. Pacc UF890 .F73 1989

Chesneaux, Jean.: France in the Pacific: a tentative analysis. Canberra: Peace Research Center, Research School of Pacific Studies, ANU, 1987. 18p. Pacc JV1837 .C44 1987

Danielsson, Bengt and Marie Therese Danielsson.: Moruroa, mon amour: the French nuclear tests in the Pacific. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1977. 266p. Pacc DU870 .D345713

__________.: Moruroa, notre bombe coloniale: histoire de la colonisation nucleaire de la Polynesie francaise. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1993. 655p. Pacc DU870.75 .D36 1993

__________.: Poisoned reign: French nuclear colonialism in the Pacific. Rev. ed. NY: Penguin Books, 1986. 323p.; Pacc DU870 .D345713 1986

Finney, Ben R.: From sea to space. Palmerston North, NZ: Massey Univ., 1992. 128p. Pacc DU510 .F56 Also HL.

Firth, Stewart.: Nuclear playground. Honolulu: CPIS; Univ of Hawaii Press, 1987. South Sea Books. 176p. Pacc U264 .F57 1987

French nuclear testing, 1960-1988. Andrew S. Burrows et al.: Wash DC: Natural Defense Resources Council, 1989. 57p. Pacc UF890 .F73 1989

French security policy in a disarming world: domestic challenges and international constraints.: Ed. by Philippe Le Prestre. Boulder, Colo.: L. Rienner Pub., 1989. 152p. HL UA700 .F78 1989

Impact of nuclear testing at Mururoa and Fangataufa...: Canberra: Office of the Chief Scientist, Dept. of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, 1995. 35p. Pacc UF890 .I47 1995

Miles, Julie.: Chronology: the French presence in the South Pacific, 1838-1990. Auckland: Greenpeace New Zealand; Wash DC: Greenpeace USA, 1990. 92p. Pacc UF767 .M53 1990

Pardon, Daniel.: Fangataufa, Mururoa: etat des lieux des sites d'experimentations nucleaires francais. Grenoble: Glenat, 1995. 144p. Pacc DU870.2 .P27 1995

Poirine, Bernard.: Tahiti: strategie pour l'apres-nucleaire: de la rente atomique au dévelopement. Arue, Tahiti, French Polynesia: s.n., 1992. 307p. Pacc HC688 .Z7P37

Shaw, Elaine and Roger Wilson.: French Polynesia, the nuclear tests: a chronology, 1767-1981. Auckland, NZ: Greenpeace, 1981. 12p.; Pacc UF767 .S39

Tahiti apres la bombe: quel avenir pour la Polynesie? sous la direction de Jean Chesneaux.: Paris: Harmattan, 1995. 184p. Pacc DU870 .T1295 1995

Testimonies: witnesses of French nuclear testing in the South Pacific.: Auckland, NZ: Greenpeace Intl., 1990. 72p. Pacc TD195 .N3 T37 1990

University of the South Pacific. Pacific Information Centre.: Nuclear issues in the South Pacific: a bibliography. Suva, 1987. 351p. Pacc U264 .N84 1987

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