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

Marvels & Tales;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......to Culture: Oral Tradition and Society in the Southern Cook Islands. By Anna-Leena...significance of oral tradition in Pacific Islands...integrated is oral tradition into life in the Cook Islands? To what extent...understanding of oral ...

PM of Cook Islands meets Chinese FM on strengthening cooperation

Xinhua News Agency;  August 2, 2006 ;     245 words ...PM of Cook Islands meets Chinese FM on strengthening...Xinhua) -- Prime Minister of the Cook Islands Jim Marurai on Tuesday met with visiting...here from Avarua, the capital of the Cook Islands. At the meeting, Li said the friendly...

Chinese, Cook Islands to promote bilateral ties

Xinhua News Agency;  April 28, 2004 ;     356 words ...Chinese, Cook Islands to promote bilateral ties BEIJING...importance to its relations with the Cook Islands and would like to further the bilateral...Prime Minister Robert Woonton of the Cook Islands. Premier Wen set forth a four-point...

Cook Islands' Leaders Pledge to Pursue "One China" Policy

Xinhua News Agency;  March 22, 2001 ;     315 words ...Leaders of the Cook Islands have pledged to develop relations with China...Mingming, who is also the new ambassador to the Cook Islands, returned to Wellington Thursday from a trip to the Cook Islands, where he presented his credentials to Frederick...

Queen's Representative of Cook Islands congratulates China's success of...

Xinhua News Agency;  October 9, 2008 ;     337 words ...Queen's Representative of Cook Islands congratulates China's success of space walk RAROTONGA, Cook Islands, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Frederick Goodwin...Elizabeth II's representative of the Cook Islands, on Wednesday congratulated China's...

Neoliberalism, Mobility and Cook Islands Men in Transit

The Australian Journal of Anthropology;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......promoted by aid agencies operating in the Cook Islands. The solution to the country's economic...address this imbalance by examining how Cook Islands men have been effected by, and how they...remark, which includes not only the Cook Islands but the Pacific region as a whole, can...

YACHT: Tiny Cook Islands to enter global yachting event

AAP Sports News (Australia);  February 15, 2000 ;     213 words ......News (Australia) 02-15-2000 YACHT: Tiny Cook Islands to enter global yachting event By Florence...Syme-Buchanan RAROTONGA, Jan 14 AFP - The tiny Cook Islands is to challenge for the Volvo Ocean...2002. The launch of the entry by Team Cook Islands culminates two years of planning by...

Soc: PNG thrash Cook Islands

AAP Sports News (Australia);  April 5, 2003 ;     134 words ...00-00-0000 Soc: PNG thrash Cook Islands CANBERRA, April 5 AAP - Papua New Guinea...and fast in posting a 5-1 win over the Cook Islands in the opening match of the Oceania...led 4-1 at halftime but an improved Cook Islands defence held them out in the second...

Dragging drag: The performance of gender and sexuality in the Cook Islands

The Australian Journal of Anthropology;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Development. Drag shows are prevalent in the Cook Islands and they are performed by both 'heterosexual...of gendered ideologies that structure Cook Islands social life-in particular the ways in...drag, it has different meanings in the Cook Islands. These meanings suggest drag ...

Akono'anga Maori: Cook Islands Culture.(Book Review)

The Contemporary Pacific;  March 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Akono'anga Maori: Cook Islands Culture, edited by Ron Crocombe and Marlorie...Pacific Studies in association with the Cook Islands Extension Centre, University of the South Pacific, the Cook Islands Cultural and Historic Places Trust, and...

NEW ZEALAND: COOK ISLANDS PARLIAMENTARY STUDY TOUR WELCOMED

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 2, 2008 ;     225 words ......from members of the Parliament of the Cook Islands provides an opportunity to acknowledge...relationship that New Zealand has with the Cook Islands, Pacific Island Affairs Minister Luamanuvao...today. "Our close connection with the Cook Islands is founded on historical ties, our ...

China to make efforts for friendship, cooperation with Cook Islands

Xinhua News Agency;  April 29, 2004 ;     228 words ......efforts for friendship, cooperation with Cook Islands BEIJING, April 29 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese...friendship and cooperation with the Cook Islands and continue to make efforts for the...Prime Minister Robert Woonton of the Cook Islands who is here as a guest of Chinese Premier...

"Reading" Homer through oral tradition.(Essays: Homer and the Oral...

College Literature;  March 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......manuscripts lurks a longstanding, textless oral tradition. In other words, before the Iliad or...story-performances. If the modern (re-)discovery of oral tradition was chiefly the accomplishment of the...recognize that Homer's epics circulated in oral tradition for a substantial ...

New Zealand, Cook Islands Sign Joint Declaration

Xinhua News Agency;  June 12, 2001 ;     282 words ......Prime Minister Helen Clark and Cook Islands Prime Minister Terepai Maoate...Tuesday in Avarua, capital of the Cook Islands, a Joint Centenary Declaration...Clark is there, attending the Cook Islands' celebration of 100 years association...

Cook Islands re-elected PM reaches out to business

Xinhua News Agency;  October 10, 2006 ;     176 words ...Cook Islands re-elected PM reaches out to business...WELLINGTON, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- Re-elected Cook Islands Prime Minister Jim Marurai has emphasized...setting up a Business Roundtable. The Cook Islands Times, a local news paper, said Tuesday...