Our Small World

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Title

Our Small World

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Our Small World is a portrait of life on an atoll in Tokelau — on Fale, an island so small, the schoolhouse had to be built on the next island, and the pigs live on the reef. Narrated by Tokelau-born Ioane Puka on a return visit, the film examines old traditions meeting pressures from the outside world, an emphasis on self-sufficiency and togetherness, and worries over education and a declining, youth-heavy population. Key decisions are made by a group of male elders, although after initial d...

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Video

Date created

2000

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tokelau / tokelau islands / tradition / modernisation / fakaofo / fale / education / cash economy / economics / leadership / patriachy / police / pacific / cyclone / hurricane / fishing / sea wall / cyclones / hurricanes / tuna / te vaka / self-sufficiency / pacific islands / pasifika / diet / westernisation / westernization / coral atoll / paradise / yellowfin tuna / yellow fin tuna / yellow-fin tuna / tropical / galway o'brien

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