Kula the nurse and Nua the teacher: Tokelau's professional pioneers
2014; Polynesian Society; Volume: 123; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.15286/jps.2014.123.2.185-207
ISSN2230-5955
Autores Tópico(s)Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
Resumothe atolls of tokelau, named atafu, fakaofo and nukunonu, are located north of samoa, east of tuvalu, west of the northern cooks and south of the phoenix islands (now part of Kiribati).they were never considered worthy of much attention by metropolitan powers, and were remote and difficult to get to.Being atolls they are tiny and resource poor.Being "true" atolls they have neither passes nor secure off-shore anchorages. in the mid-1800s the atolls were severely depopulated in the interests of conversion: 500 were removed to uvea by the Marist mission in 1852 (huntsman 2004) and the london Missionary society knowingly allowed virulent dysentery to enter fakaofo in their eagerness to install a samoan teacher there.on top of these depredations, over 250 were carried off to peru in 1863 (Maude 1981, huntsman and hooper 1996: 204-10).those that remained in nukunonu were Marist catholic, those in atafu lMs protestant, and those in fakaofo
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