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Book Review

Oceania and the Pacific Islands

Bain Attwood and Fiona Magowan, editors. Telling Stories: Indigenous History and Memory in Australia and New Zealand. Crows Nest, New South Wales: Allen and Unwin. 2001. Pp. xvii, 269. $29.95.
Bain Attwood and Fiona Magowan have put together a collection of ten essays by eleven authors, all of whom have interest and expertise in the field of oral history. All the contributors are present or past senior members of academic institutions in Australia and New Zealand. The collection would have been strengthened by the inclusion of more views from indigenous people themselves, but the lack of such scholars working in these areas has been noted.	1
The cultures of both the Aborigines of Australia and the Maori of New Zealand in their pre-European contact periods included no written script, but each society had strong traditions of story, song, and speech making through which histories of people, places, and land were passed on. The essays of this collection, however, deal largely with the post-European settlement periods of each country, from the late 1700s in Australia and the early 1800s in New Zealand.	2
There are marked differences between the two indigenous societies, based on population characteristics, time of settlement, the lands and their resources, and their histories of colonization. The contributing essays, six on Australia and four on New Zealand, are separate in their subjects and approaches and do not aim to present any overall view or argument. Some writers present objective explanations while others offer more subjective accounts of their experiences in obtaining and working with oral history. However, because they all add to the wide picture of indigenous history in the South Pacific, they make a reasonably cohesive volume.	. . .

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