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Return to Culture: Oral Tradition and Society in the Southern Cook Islands.

Publication: Marvels & Tales
Publication Date: 01-OCT-07 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Return to Culture: Oral Tradition and Society in the Southern Cook Islands.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Return to Culture: Oral Tradition and Society in the Southern Cook Islands. By Anna-Leena Siikala and Jukka Siikala. FF Communications Vol. 136, No. 287. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2005. 327 pp.

What is the significance of oral tradition in Pacific Islands culture? How integrated is oral tradition into life in the Cook Islands? To what extent does a theoretical understanding of oral tradition practices enable an analytic understanding of social action, political structure, narrative practices, and the cultural milieu of the southern Cook Islanders? In this book the collaborative approach between a folklorist (Anna-Leena Siikala) and an anthropologist (Jukka Siikala) situates these questions in an empirical analysis of the processes of identity formation of the people of Ma'uke and Atiu through customary discursive practices.

Not satisfied to regard the past as past, but implicitly recognizing that "folklore" is a non-omnibus discipline suffering an epistemological crisis, the Siikalas adopt something equivalent to a European philological approach combining it with a multilocal, multivocal...

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