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Book Aho Mutunga Kore

    Book Details:
  • Author : Miriama Evans
  • Publisher : Huia Publishers
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781869691615
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Aho Mutunga Kore written by Miriama Evans and published by Huia Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a beautifully presented book featuring some stunning images and concise accounts of the concepts and values of traditional and contemporary Maori weaving. Featuring some of New Zealand's foremost Maori expert weavers, The Eternal Thread: The Art of Maori Weaving celebrates innovation and development of weaving and plaiting as art forms in modern times while acknowledging the technology developed by weavers through the past centuries.

Book Women Together

    Book Details:
  • Author : New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. Historical Branch
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 662 pages

Download or read book Women Together written by New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. Historical Branch and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "132 short histories of organisations, grouped in thirteen sections"--Introduction.

Book Maori Weaving

Download or read book Maori Weaving written by Erenora Puketapu-Hetet and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a much-loved text for students of Maori Weaving and those interested in the art of weaving. Written by renowned Maori weaver and artist, Erenora Puketapu-Hetet, the book gives a unique perspective into the art of Maori weaving from both a technical and cultural point of view.

Book Harakeke   The Rene Orchiston Collection

Download or read book Harakeke The Rene Orchiston Collection written by S. Scheele and published by Balogh Scientific Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Varieties of flax with location, description and uses.

Book New Zealand   Country Of Peace

Download or read book New Zealand Country Of Peace written by Margaret Bell Thomson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features places of peace in the communities of New Zealand, also known as Aotearoa. It shows how City and District Councils have worked to enhance their areas by encouraging people to help establish quiet places where they can enjoy artwork, walks, or merely sit in gardens and parks to enjoy peace. Many people have take part in establishing these peaceful places. Some installations have resulted from competitions to have sculptures in public places; other peace sites are memorials to history, like the Hiroshima flame in the Wellington Botanic Gardens. Rekohu, the Chatham Islands, is also included, for the islands, with its Moriori history, is known as a specials place of peace. Adults, children, volunteers and general workers have all taken part in seeing that our communities have areas of peace.

Book Museums  Anthropology and Imperial Exchange

Download or read book Museums Anthropology and Imperial Exchange written by Amiria Henare and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-17 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amiria Henare explores the role of material cultural research in anthropology and related disciplines from the late eighteenth century to the present.

Book A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru taha

Download or read book A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru taha written by Witi Ihimaera and published by Massey University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-11 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty-eight writers and eight artists gather at a hui in a magnificent cave-like dwelling or meeting house. In the middle is a table, the tepu korero, from which the rangatira speak; they converse with honoured guests, and their rangatira-korero embody the tahuhu, the over-arching horizontal ridge pole, of the shelter. In a series of rich conversations, those present discuss our world in the second decade of this century; they look at decolonisation, indigeneity, climate change . . . this is what they see.Edited by Witi Ihimaera and Michelle Elvy, this fresh, exciting anthology features poetry, short fiction and creative non-fiction, as well as korero or conversations between writers and work by local and international artists. The lineup from Aoteraoa includes, among others, Alison Wong, Paula Morris, Anne Salmond, Tina Makereti, Ben Brown, David Eggleton, Cilla McQueen, Hinemoana Baker, Erik Kennedy, Ian Wedde, Nina Mingya Powles, Gregory O' Brien, Vincent O' Sullivan, Patricia Grace, Selina Tusitala Marsh and Whiti Hereaka. Guest writers from overseas include Aparecida Vilaç a, Jose-Luis Novo and Ru Freeman.

Book M  ori Cloaks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Awhina Tamarapa
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9781877385568
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book M ori Cloaks written by Awhina Tamarapa and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving is more than just a product of manual skills. From the simple rourou (food basket) to the prestigious kahukiwi (kiwi feather cloak), weaving is endowed with the very essence of the spiritual values of M ori people. The first M ori settlers brought the knowledge of weaving with them. In Aotearoa they found new plant materials, including the versatile harakeke (New Zealand flax). They also incorporated feathers from birds and the skin and hair of their dogs. They wove practical items necessary for everyday life. But they also wove exceptional items such as fine mats and wall panels and, above all, kakahu (cloaks) of immense significance, which bestow mana (prestige) on both weaver and wearer. This major new publication opens the storeroom doors of the Te Papa Tongarewa M ori collections, illuminating the magnificent kakahu in those collections and the art and tradition of weaving itself. Five informative chapters, each written by an expert contributor, reveal the history and significance of weaving, every page sumptuously illustrated with detailed, all-new photographs by Te Papa photographer Norm Heke. In addition, forty rare and precious kakahu are featured specially within this book, with glossy colour detail illustrations of each, plus historical and contextual images and graphic diagrams of weaving techniques. These are accompanied by engaging descriptions bringing together information on every cloak its age, materials, and weaving technique with quotes from master weavers and other experts, stories of the cloaks, details of their often remarkable provenance. A full glossary, illustrated guide to cloak types, and index are included.

Book Treasures from the Land

Download or read book Treasures from the Land written by Susan Foster and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tuamaka

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joan Metge
  • Publisher : Auckland University Press
  • Release : 2013-11-01
  • ISBN : 1775582280
  • Pages : 109 pages

Download or read book Tuamaka written by Joan Metge and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the point of view of a renowned anthropologist, this invaluable volume narrates the history of a multicultural New Zealand in which both Maori and non-Maori individuals cohabitate. Arguing that the Treaty of Waitangi of 1840—signed by the indigenous Maori and the British—established a foundation from which New Zealanders could grow and prosper, this account demonstrates how two cultures met, disputed, and dealt with diversity. In addition, this unique record analyzes the country's languages and myths and explores how they have influenced New Zealand society. Moving and engaging, this record covers six decades of enlightening field work.

Book Ng   Kupu Wero

    Book Details:
  • Author : Witi Ihimaera
  • Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
  • Release : 2023-08-29
  • ISBN : 0143778625
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book Ng Kupu Wero written by Witi Ihimaera and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ngā Kupu Wero brings together a bounty of essays, articles, commentary and creative non-fiction on the political, cultural and social issues that challenge us today. From colonisation to identity, from creativity to mātauranga Māori, over 60 writers explore the power of the word. Accept the challenge of the wero. Join the kōrero. Ngā Kupu Wero is a companion volume to Te Awa o Kupu, which presents recent poetry and fiction. Together these two passionate and vibrant anthologies reveal that the irrepressible river of words flowing from Māori writers today shows us who and what we are.

Book Art  Space  Ecology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Grande John K. Grande
  • Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
  • Release : 2019-10-15
  • ISBN : 1551647001
  • Pages : 190 pages

Download or read book Art Space Ecology written by Grande John K. Grande and published by Black Rose Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Art, Space, Ecology, internationally renowned curator and critic John K. Grande interviews twenty major contemporary artists whose works engage with the natural environment. Whether their medium is sculpture, nature interventions, performance, body art, or installation, these discussions, complemented by eighty stunning photographs, reveal the artists' diverse backgrounds and methods, expressions and realizations.Ultimately, the natural world serves as a canvas to explore the intersections of art, space, and the environment, thereby raising questions about our relationship with landscape itself. The essence of the art form is a dynamic interactivity, and the dialogues between Grande and the artists mirror the encounter of object and environment, artist and audience, society and nature. This work is rounded out with an engaging introduction by writer and curator Edward Lucie-Smith, who sets the stage for some of the most insightful and compelling discussions on art to be found.

Book Cultural Studies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lawrence Grossberg
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2005-07-19
  • ISBN : 1134805322
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Cultural Studies written by Lawrence Grossberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-19 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Early Stories from Founding Members of the M  ori Women s Welfare League

Download or read book Early Stories from Founding Members of the M ori Women s Welfare League written by Mira Szaszy and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of early stories from Maori Women's Welfare League as told by founding members to Dame Mira Szaszy."--Publisher's description.

Book Tikanga M  ori

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sidney M. Mead
  • Publisher : Huia Publishers
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9781877283888
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book Tikanga M ori written by Sidney M. Mead and published by Huia Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Relationships between and among people need to be managed and guarded by some rules'. Professor Hirini Moko Mead's comprehensive survey of tikanga Maori (Maori custom) is the most substantial of its kind every published. Ranging over topics from the everyday to the esoteric, it provides a breadth of perspectives and authoritative commentary on the principles and practice of tikanga Maori past and present.

Book Possessions

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicholas Thomas
  • Publisher : Thames & Hudson
  • Release : 2022-09-01
  • ISBN : 0500778019
  • Pages : 471 pages

Download or read book Possessions written by Nicholas Thomas and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The arts of Africa, Oceania and native America famously inspired twentieth-century modernist artists such as Picasso, Matisse and Ernst. The politics of such stimulus, however, have long been highly contentious: was this a cross-cultural discovery to be celebrated, or just one more example of Western colonial appropriation? This revelatory book explores cross-cultural art through the lens of settler societies such as Australia and New Zealand, where Europeans made new nations, displacing and outnumbering but never eclipsing native peoples. In this dynamic of dispossession and resistance, visual art has loomed large. Settler artists and designers drew upon Indigenous motifs and styles in their search for distinctive identities. Yet powerful Indigenous art traditions have asserted the presence of First Nations peoples and their claims to place, history and sovereignty. Cultural exchange has been a two-way process, and an unpredictable one: contemporary Indigenous art draws on global contemporary practice, but moves beyond a bland affirmation of hybrid identities to insist on the enduring values and attachment to place of Indigenous peoples.

Book Encyclopedia of National Dress  2 volumes

Download or read book Encyclopedia of National Dress 2 volumes written by Jill Condra and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 1446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set presents information and images of the varied clothing and textiles of cultures around the world, allowing readers to better appreciate the richness and diversity of human culture and history. The contributors to Encyclopedia of National Dress: Traditional Clothing around the World examine clothing that is symbolic of the people who live in regions all over the world, providing a historical and geographic perspective that illustrates how people dress and explains the reasons behind the material, design, and style. The encyclopedia features a preface and introduction to its contents. Each entry in the encyclopedia includes a short historical and geographical background for the topic before discussing the clothing of people in that country or region of the world. This work will be of great interest to high school students researching fashion, fashion history, or history as well as to undergraduate students and general readers interested in anthropology, textiles, fashion, ethnology, history, or ethnic dress.