This book is a close look at the Maui myth (at least as it is told in the Cook Islands). Like most other New Zealanders I'm familiar with at least one version of Maui, and it was really interesting to get a closer look at some of the details, even if they weren't all familiar.

I have to admit I got a bit glazed over when it came to some of the analysis, though. Kauraka has a heavy emphasis on interpreting the myth through the Levi-Strauss model. Perhaps if that was more familiar to me it would have been easier to digest, but the focus on tables of features and how they related to each other kind of bogged me down a bit.