EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

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 The Social Life of Materials

Download or read book The Social Life of Materials written by Adam Drazin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Materials play a central role in society. Beyond the physical and chemical properties of materials, their cultural properties have often been overlooked in anthropological studies: finished products have been perceived as ‘social’ yet the materials which comprise them are considered ‘raw’ or natural’. The Social Life of Materials proposes a new perspective in this interdisciplinary field. Diverting attention from the consumption of objects, the book looks towards the properties of materials and how these exist through many transformations in a variety of cultural contexts.Human societies have always worked with materials. However, the customs and traditions surrounding this differ according to the place, the time and the material itself. Whether or not the material is man-made, materials are defined by social intervention. Today, these constitute one of the most exciting areas of global scientific research and innovation, harboring the potential to act as key vehicles of change in the world. But this ‘materials revolution’ has complex social implications. Smart materials are designed to anticipate our actions and needs, yet we are increasingly unable to apprehend the composite materials which comprise new products.Bringing together ethnographic studies of cultures from around the world, this collection explores the significance of materials by moving beyond questions of what may be created from them. Instead, the text argues that the materials themselves represent a shifting ground around which relationships, identities and powers are constantly formed and dissolved in the act of making and remaking.

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 Cooking Sections

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nico Alexandroff
  • Publisher : Hatje Cantz Verlag
  • Release : 2022-01-01
  • ISBN : 3775751998
  • Pages : 178 pages

Download or read book Cooking Sections written by Nico Alexandroff and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offsetted widmet sich der Frage nach der Wertschöpfung von Natur. Das Buch des Künstlerduos Cooking Sections enthüllt Formen der Enteignung, die sich durch den Schutz – und nicht nur ihre Zerstörung – der natürlichen Umwelt aktuell verstärkt ereignen. Durch eine Reihe von künstlerischen und architektonischen Interventionen knüpft Offsetted an die weltweiten Kämpfe für Klimagerechtigkeit an und stellt den Neoliberalismus als Retter seiner eigenen ökologischen Widersprüche in Frage. So beleuchtet das Projekt beispielsweise Naturschutzmodelle, die auf »natürlichem Kapital« basieren, und schlägt neue räumliche Strategien zur De-Finanzierung der Umwelt vor. Neben einer Fotodokumentation und künstlerischen Arbeiten von Cooking Sections versammelt das Buch zahlreiche Beiträge interdisziplinär tätiger Kunstschaffenden und Forschenden.

Book How Materials Matter

Download or read book How Materials Matter written by Graeme Were and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does design and innovation shape people’s lives in the Pacific? Focusing on plant materials from the region, How Materials Matter reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds. Recognizing the fragile and ephemeral nature of plant fibres, this work delves into how the biophysical properties of certain leaves and their aesthetic appearance are utilized to communicate information and manage different forms of relations. It breaks new ground by situating plant materials at the centre of innovation in a region.

Book Kete Whakairo

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margaret Rose Ngawaka
  • Publisher : Trafford Publishing
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 1466941545
  • Pages : 57 pages

Download or read book Kete Whakairo written by Margaret Rose Ngawaka and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Rose Ngawaka- Iwi (Tribe)-Ngati Porou, Kahungunu, and Rongomaiwahine I live on a 148-acre offshore island on the west side of Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand, where my husband and I have raised our seven children. Living here so remote has the challenge of not being able to attend courses of learning on the mainland (New Zealand). But I continue to strive for knowledge and understanding and seek out whatever opportunities come my way. I learned raranga in 1998, but it has been in my blood since birth. My journey with harakeke is entwined with my whakapapa (family history). When I learned to plait, I found an aunt I have never met who was an expert weaver of her time. When I learned piupiu (traditional Maori kilt), I was given a photo of my great-grandmother wearing her piupiu and learned she was a matriarch weaver of her time. This confirmed also that she was giving me permission to carry on with this treasured skill that she once excelled in. When I learned taniko, it was my mother's sister, Aunt Hiria Okeroa Waaka, who taught me. My aunt Hiria has fond memories as a young girl being chosen to go pick kiekie and harakeke with her grandmother (my great-grandmother). This reminds me of my duty and responsibility to teach raranga and inspire hope for future mokopuna-grandchildren/posterity. There are many women more experienced and skilled than I who could have written this step-by-step book. I feel so blessed to have seen this opportunity and ran with it. I always say, "If it's meant to be-it will be."

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 A Case Study of a School   s Application of Appreciative Inquiry  Soar  and Strengths Based Practices as Seen in a Range of Educational Projects

Download or read book A Case Study of a School s Application of Appreciative Inquiry Soar and Strengths Based Practices as Seen in a Range of Educational Projects written by Marie Bramley and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-10-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no doubt that we live in a world experiencing unprecedented changes. It is not surprising that our conversation can have a sense of hopelessness. Easy solutions appear to be few and far between. What is needed in schools is a new discourse that is hope-full, appreciative, strengths-based and relational. This book reports on an innovative ‘life-centric’ design for the professional development of senior leaders within a primary (elementary) school in New Zealand. The design involved an Appreciative Inquiry approach, a SOAR strategy, and strengths-based outcomes. The chapters are organised around leaders’ self-selected, innovative and appreciative inquiries which included an external mentor and writing retreats. Each chapter provides a teacher’s narrative on their inquiry, decision making, application of the life-centric design, and the development of emergent and enduring understandings. The AI SOAR strategy has been applied to school-wide matters such as the development of a new bicultural school vision statement; ‘Growing creative learners from within.’ The Mori translation is ‘Kia puwai te ngkau.’ This translation evokes an image of learners harnessing that which is within their innermost being and letting that flourish. This book strongly advocates for the greater application of Appreciative Inquiry, SOAR and strengths-based aspirations in schools.

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 Maori String Figures

Download or read book Maori String Figures written by Johannes Carl Andersen and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ethnographies in Pan Pacific Research

Download or read book Ethnographies in Pan Pacific Research written by Robert E. Rinehart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is about exciting ethnographic happenings in the vibrant and growing global interface which includes Australia, New Zealand, and some of the Asian geographical regions, as well as - more broadly - the global South. It explores ethnographic writing as culture(s) (re)produced, positionalities of authors, tensions between authors and others, multi-faceted groups, and as co-productions of these works. The contributors describe and discuss a variety of topical areas of interest, from Facebook to memory work, from children's sexuality to urban racism, from meanings of Indigenous knowledge to how communities can come together to retain what is valuable to themselves. The authors also manage to locate themselves and others (positionings) in the research hierarchies (tensions). This is a valuable guide to the effects of 21st-century ethnography on the qualitative research project.

Book Design and Nature

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kate Fletcher
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2019-09-09
  • ISBN : 1351111493
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Design and Nature written by Kate Fletcher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organised as a dialogue between nature and design, this book explores design ideas, opportunities, visions and practices through relating and uncovering experience of the natural world. Presented as an edited collection of 25 wide-ranging short chapters, the book explores the possibility of new relations between design and nature, beyond human mastery and understandings of nature as resource and by calling into question the longstanding role for design as agent of capitalism. The book puts forward ways in which design can form partnerships with living species and examines designers’ capacities for direct experience, awe, integrated relationships and new ways of knowing. It covers: • New design ethics of care • Indigenous perspectives • Prototyping with nature • Methods for new design and nature relations • A history of design and nature • Animist beliefs • De-centering human-centered design • Understanding nature has power and agency Design and Nature: A Partnership is a rich resource for designers who wish to learn to engage with sustainability from the ground up.

Book Rejecting the Marginalized Status of Minority Languages

Download or read book Rejecting the Marginalized Status of Minority Languages written by Ari Sherris and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Indigenous, tribal and minority (ITM) language education in oral and/or written communication and in the use of new technologies and online resources for pedagogical purposes in diverse geopolitical contexts. It demonstrates that ITM language education transpires in both formal and informal spaces for children or adults and that sometimes these spaces are online, where they become de-territorialized discourses of teaching and learning.’ The volume brings together examples of ITM language education that are challenging the forces that flatten ‘languacultures’ into artefacts of history. It also examines the economic and material realities of the people who live in and through their ‘languacultures’, or who aspire to do as much. The book will be useful for educators and all those interested in Indigenous and minority language issues, as well as for a wide range of undergraduate, graduate and research contexts where topics of language education and minority rights are the focus.

Book Tricked

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pelaam
  • Publisher : JMS Books LLC
  • Release : 2021-10-27
  • ISBN : 1646569687
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Tricked written by Pelaam and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Tane is asked to a Halloween party by one of the men from the logging firm he works in, he’s anxious as well as thrilled. The man looks like the one of his dreams but, when the night comes around, he discovers he’s been cruelly tricked and ends up running for his life. He finds refuge in a house at the edge of the forest and is strangely drawn to the beast of a man who lives there with his elderly brother. But appearances are deceiving, as Tane’s already found out. Can he live long enough to have a fairy-tale ending?

Book Kete Whakairo

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margaret rose Ngawaka
  • Publisher : Trafford Publishing
  • Release : 2013-04-17
  • ISBN : 1466941537
  • Pages : 56 pages

Download or read book Kete Whakairo written by Margaret rose Ngawaka and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone can learn to plait a kete whakairo from the long blades of harakeke, commonly known as New Zealand flax. This book Kete Whakairo plaiting flax for beginners gives detailed, step by step instructions and illustrations for plaiting a beginner's version of this type of kete. Margaret Rose Ngawaka first became interested in her native craft of plaiting when a group of tutors were invited to teach women in a small northern community on Great Barrier Island, New Zealand in 1998. Margaret Rose has maintained this traditional art and skill. She continues this folk art of Raranga by teaching others who are interested.

Book Decolonizing Research

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jo-ann Archibald Q’um Q’um Xiiem
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2019-05-15
  • ISBN : 1786994631
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Decolonizing Research written by Jo-ann Archibald Q’um Q’um Xiiem and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Oceania to North America, indigenous peoples have created storytelling traditions of incredible depth and diversity. The term 'indigenous storywork' has come to encompass the sheer breadth of ways in which indigenous storytelling serves as a historical record, as a form of teaching and learning, and as an expression of indigenous culture and identity. But such traditions have too often been relegated to the realm of myth and legend, recorded as fragmented distortions, or erased altogether. Decolonizing Research brings together indigenous researchers and activists from Canada, Australia and New Zealand to assert the unique value of indigenous storywork as a focus of research, and to develop methodologies that rectify the colonial attitudes inherent in much past and current scholarship. By bringing together their own indigenous perspectives, and by treating indigenous storywork on its own terms, the contributors illuminate valuable new avenues for research, and show how such reworked scholarship can contribute to the movement for indigenous rights and self-determination.