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The future of Tokelau : decolonising agendas, 1975-2006 / Judith Huntsman with Kelihiano Kalolo.

Title
The future of Tokelau : decolonising agendas, 1975-2006 / Judith Huntsman with Kelihiano Kalolo.
Author
Huntsman, Judith.
Publication
Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors
Kalolo, Kelihiano.
Description
viii, 296 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Summary
"The Future of Tokelau - the sequel to Tokelau: A Historical Ethnography (1997) by Judith Hunisman and Antony Hooper - follows the history of this small Pacific nation from the 1970s up to the 2006 referendum in which the Tokelauans voted to remain a dependency of New Zealand rather than become self-governing in free association with New Zealand. Over the course of this history, Huntsman, with assistance from Kelihiano Kalolo, documents the mismatch of cultural assumptions, expectations and values played out by officials, politicians and Tokelau elders on a stage ranging from the coral atolls of Tokelau, the bland offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the monumental UN building in New York. The Future of Tokelau is a superbly researched study of village social life and politics in a modernising world; an illuminating picture of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, its operations and relationships; and a brilliant critique of the United Nations and the way it conducts its affairs. But it is the lumanaki - or the future of Tokelau - as perceived by the Tokelau people that is at the centre of this books."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • History
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p.276-285) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Preamble -- 1960 to 1974 -- 2. The Ministry takes charge -- 3. Maopoopo compromised -- the Tokelau Public Service -- 4. Pule/'Authority' -- political roles and institutions -- 5. Te Lumanaki o Tokelau /'The future of Tokelau' -- Tokelau, New Zealand and the United Nations -- 6. A Tokelau national government -- the first design -- 7. A new house for Tokelau -- the second design -- 8. Aiming towards self-determination -- 2003-06.
ISBN
  • 9781869403980 (pbk.)
  • 1869403983 (pbk.)
OCLC
174084505
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library