Hughes, H G Alun (Dr), fl 1946-2003 : Papers

Date
[1940-2005]
By
Hughes, H G Alun, active 1949-2003
Reference
MS-Group-0595
Description

Comprises copies of Hughes's reviews for various periodicals, particularly `Reference reviews', but also `The Outrigger', Rongorongo studies and others, and newsletters, on a variety of material relating mostly to the Pacific area. Includes reviews on books on Cantonese, the Pacific Islands Library and the papers of H E and H C Maude, `Periodicals in print', a directory of British organisations with a China interest, a reference grammar of Tok Kisin, Hawaiian, `Rongorongo studies' edited by S R Fischer; bibliographies of Hughes's publications (1948-1949, 1951-1994); list of Hughes's papers in the Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide; bibliographies on education in Micronesia, Samoa, Tonga, Guam; information sheets on the Polynesian Literary Competition (1995) of which Hughes is a permanent moderator and for a conference, Environment and Development in the Pacific (1995)

Microfiche of notes on Gilbertese custom and tradition from Te Nutipepa, R P Gilson's Samoan papers in PMB 1003, bibliographies of education in Samoa, Guam and Micronesia and Hughes's Pacific correspondence (1976-1990)

Reviews of various publications on the Pacific region; essay on language change

Source of title - Supplied title

Quantity: 9 folder(s). 0.09 Linear Metres.

Physical Description: Typescripts (some carbon copies), printed matter and microfiche

Finding Aids: See Back file for listing of papers of Hughes held at the University of Adelaide Library; also available at http://www.library.adelaide.edu.au/ual/special/hughes.html.

Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Dr H G A Hughes, Wales, Apr 1997; (A97-169) May 1997, (A2000-234) Sep 2000; Jun 2003 (A2003-208); Nov 2003 (A2003-357); Jul 2006 (A2006-154); Sep 2006 (A2006-201)

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9 folder(s), 0.09 Linear Metres, Bibliographies, Book reviews, Research notes, Essays, Manuscripts, Microfiche, Typescripts (some carbon copies), printed matter and microfiche
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Manuscript

Microfiche re Pacific research

Date: [1940-1996]

From: Hughes, H G Alun (Dr), fl 1946-2003 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5999

Description: Comprises fiche for six topics (1) Index to R P Gilson's papers on Samoa from PMB 1003 (2 fiche); notes on Gilbertese custom and tradition from Te Nutipepa (2 fiche); bibliographies on education in Samoa, Guam and Micronesia (1996); and Hughes's correspondence re Pacific matters (1976-1990) Quantity: 5 (microfiche items) (13 fiche).

Manuscript

Book review - One and a Half Pacific Islands, Stories the Banaban People Tell of Themse...

Date: 2005

From: Hughes, H G Alun (Dr), fl 1946-2003 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8606

Description: Contains a book review by Hughes on `One and a Half Pacific Islands/Teuana ao Teiterana n aba n Te Betebeke: Stories the Banaban People Tell of Themselves/ I-Banaba aika a Karakin oin Rongorongoia' edited by Jennifer Shennan and Makin Corrie Tekenimatang. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres.

Manuscript

Book review - Pocket Hawaiian Grammar

Date: 2005

From: Hughes, H G Alun (Dr), fl 1946-2003 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8639

Description: Contains a book review by Dr Hughes of `Pocket Hawaiian Grammar - A Reference in Dictionary Form; including a Guide to Pronounciation' by Albert J Schutz, Gary N Kahaho'malu Kanada and Kenneth William Cook. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Manuscript

Bibliographies and research papers

Date: [1990-1996]

From: Hughes, H G Alun (Dr), fl 1946-2003 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5908-1

Description: Comprises copies of Hughes's reviews for various periodicals, particularly `Reference reviews', but also `The Outrigger', Rongorongo studies and others, and newsletters, on a variety of material relating mostly to the Pacific area. Includes reviews on books on Cantonese, the Pacific Islands Library and the papers of H E and H C Maude, `Periodicals in print', a directory of British organisations with a China interest, a reference grammar of Tok Pisin, Hawaiian, `Rongorongo studies' edited by S R Fischer; bibliographies on education in Micronesia, Samoa, Tonga, Guam; information sheets on the Polynesian Literary Competition (1995) of which Hughes is a permanent moderator and for a conference, Environment and Development in the Pacific (1995) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Manuscript

Bibliographies of papers of H G A Hughes

Date: [1945-1996]

From: Hughes, H G Alun (Dr), fl 1946-2003 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5908-2

Description: Comprises copies of bibliographies of Hughes's publications (1948-1949, 1951-1994), list of Hughes's papers in the Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, references to publications (1945-1992) and list of entries elsewhere Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Manuscript

Further reviews

Date: 1995-1999

From: Hughes, H G Alun (Dr), fl 1946-2003 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7785

Description: Five book reviews by Hughes (1) Adrian Walker and Richard P C Brown's `The uses and determinants of remittances; interpreting Tongan and Western Samoan sample survey data (Brisbane, University of Queensland, 1999); (2) Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop and others, `Tamaitai Samoa, their stories (Suva, University of the South Pacific, 1996); (3) Hermann J Hiery and John M MacKenzie (eds), `Euorpean impact and Pacific influence, British and German colonial policy in the Pacific Islands and the indigenous response (London and NY, Tauris Academic Studies, 19997); (4) `The Cambridge history of the Pacific Islanders' edited by Donald Denoon with Stewart Firth and others (CUP, 1997); (5) Judith Hunstman and Antony Hooper, `Tokelau, a historical ethnography (Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1997); and (6) a look at two articles by Nigel Sawyer, Samoa (Pacifica, n126, 129, Jan, Oct 1994) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Manuscript

Article and book reviews

Date: [ca 1990s]

From: Hughes, H G Alun (Dr), fl 1946-2003 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6906

Description: Article entitled `Banaban; a lost language'; review of `A Dictionary of New Zealand sign language'; review of `Valiant-for-truth' in "Childe and Australia; archaeology, politics and ideas" Quantity: 1 folder(s) (11 leaves).

Manuscript

Reviews of various publications on the Pacific region

Date: 1997

From: Hughes, H G Alun (Dr), fl 1946-2003 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6176

Description: Typescript reviews of anthropological texts Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Manuscript

Paper on lost languages

Date: [2003]

From: Hughes, H G Alun (Dr), fl 1946-2003 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7896

Description: Brief essay by Hughes on the inevitable changes of languages within cultures Quantity: 1 folder(s).