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Book Bulletin

Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Shakespearean World

Download or read book The Shakespearean World written by Jill L Levenson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shakespearean World takes a global view of Shakespeare and his works, especially their afterlives. Constantly changing, the Shakespeare central to this volume has acquired an array of meanings over the past four centuries. "Shakespeare" signifies the historical person, as well as the plays and verse attributed to him. It also signifies the attitudes towards both author and works determined by their receptions. Throughout the book, specialists aim to situate Shakespeare’s world and what the world is because of him. In adopting a global perspective, the volume arranges thirty-six chapters in five parts: Shakespeare on stage internationally since the late seventeenth century; Shakespeare on film throughout the world; Shakespeare in the arts beyond drama and performance; Shakespeare in everyday life; Shakespeare and critical practice. Through its coverage, The Shakespearean World offers a comprehensive transhistorical and international view of the ways this Shakespeare has not only influenced but has also been influenced by diverse cultures during 400 years of performance, adaptation, criticism, and citation. While each chapter is a freshly conceived introduction to a significant topic, all of the chapters move beyond the level of survey, suggesting new directions in Shakespeare studies – such as ecology, tourism, and new media – and making substantial contributions to the field. This volume is an essential resource for all those studying Shakespeare, from beginners to advanced specialists.

Book Bulletin

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  • Author : Dominion Museum (N.Z.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1925
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 510 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by Dominion Museum (N.Z.) and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Counterworks

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  • Author : Richard Fardon
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2003-12-16
  • ISBN : 1134840810
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Counterworks written by Richard Fardon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization is often described as the spread of western culture to other parts of the world. How accurate is the depiction of 'cultural flow'? In Counterworks, ten anthropologists examine the ways in which global processes have affected particular localities where they have carried out research. They challenge the validity of anthropological concepts of culture in the light of the pervasive connections which exist between local and global factors everywhere. Rather than assuming that the world is culturally diverse, this book proposes that culture is itself a representation of the similarities and difference recognized between forms of social life. The authors address issues of globalization in terms of diverse histories and traditions of knowledge, which may include the construction of difference as cultural. In its attention to specific local situations, such as Bali, Cuba, Bolivia, Greece, Kenya, and the Maoris in New Zealand, Counterworks argues that the apparent oppositoin between strong westernizing, global forces and weak concept of culture, which supposes cultures to be integrated and possessed of essential properties, needs rethinking in a contemporary world where a marked sense of culture has become a wide-spread property of people's social knowledge. The book will have wide appeal to anthropologists, to students of comparative studies in history, religion and language, and to anyone interested in the phenomenon of postmodernism.

Book Games and Pastimes of the Maori

Download or read book Games and Pastimes of the Maori written by Elsdon Best and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Under the Overcoat

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  • Author : Sue Orr
  • Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
  • Release : 2011-02-18
  • ISBN : 1869795512
  • Pages : 317 pages

Download or read book From Under the Overcoat written by Sue Orr and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prize-winning collection of vivid, accessible stories. These fresh, contemporary stories can be read purely for the immense pleasure they offer. However, the stories can also be read for the way they explore elements from earlier works: from Maori myth and fairy tale to masterpieces by writers such as Katherine Mansfield, James Joyce and Anton Chekov. As the award-winning author says, those stories 'touched me deeply and I can recall their substance without hesitation'. Using them for inspiration, she also explores their concerns of dignity, honesty, bravery, weakness and passion. 'Sue Orr's stories have that riveting mesmerizing quality that makes the reader race on, hoping they will never end, yet desperate to find out what happens next. Their stylishness marks a new departure in contemporary short story writing, her weaving of new and vibrant stories on to concepts that began with the great masters of old is high-wire risk taking that succeeds magnificently. I admire these stories immensely: by turn tender, sly, comic, and always deeply informed about the ways of the human heart.' - Fiona Kidman

Book Transactions

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  • Author : Royal Society of New Zealand
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1902
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 770 pages

Download or read book Transactions written by Royal Society of New Zealand and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dictionary of the Maori Language

Download or read book A Dictionary of the Maori Language written by Bp. Herbert William Williams and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Blood Narrative

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  • Author : Chadwick Allen
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2002-08-06
  • ISBN : 0822383829
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Blood Narrative written by Chadwick Allen and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blood Narrative is a comparative literary and cultural study of post-World War II literary and activist texts by New Zealand Maori and American Indians—groups who share much in their responses to European settler colonialism. Chadwick Allen reveals the complex narrative tactics employed by writers and activists in these societies that enabled them to realize unprecedented practical power in making both their voices and their own sense of indigeneity heard. Allen shows how both Maori and Native Americans resisted the assimilationist tide rising out of World War II and how, in the 1960s and 1970s, they each experienced a renaissance of political and cultural activism and literary production that culminated in the formation of the first general assembly of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples. He focuses his comparison on two fronts: first, the blood/land/memory complex that refers to these groups' struggles to define indigeneity and to be freed from the definitions of authenticity imposed by dominant settler cultures. Allen's second focus is on the discourse of treaties between American Indians and the U.S. government and between Maori and Great Britain, which he contends offers strong legal and moral bases from which these indigenous minorities can argue land and resource rights as well as cultural and identity politics. With its implicit critique of multiculturalism and of postcolonial studies that have tended to neglect the colonized status of indigenous First World minorities, Blood Narrative will appeal to students and scholars of literature, American and European history, multiculturalism, postcolonialism, and comparative cultural studies.

Book Topophilia and Topophobia

Download or read book Topophilia and Topophobia written by Xing Ruan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the love and hate relations that humans establish with their habitat, which have been coined by discerning modern thinkers as topophilia and topophobia. Whilst such affiliations with the topos, our manmade as well as natural habitat, have been traced back to antiquity, a wide range of twentieth-century cases are studied here and reflected upon by dwelling on this framework. The book provides a timely reminder that the qualitative aspects of the topos, sensual as well as intellectual, should not be disregarded in the face of rapid technological development and the mass of building that has occurred since the turn of the millennium. Topophilia and Topophobia offers speculative and historical reflections on the human habitat of the century that has just passed, authored by some of the world’s leading scholars and architects, including Joseph Rykwert, Yi-Fu Tuan, Vittorio Gregotti and Jean-Louis Cohen. Human habitats, ranging broadly from the cities of the twentieth century, highbrow modern architecture both in Western countries and in Asia, to non-architect/planner designed vernacular settlements and landscapes are reviewed under the themes of topophilia and topophobia across the disciplines of architecture, landscape studies, philosophy, human geography and urban planning.

Book Te Ruanuku

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  • Author : Paulo Coelho
  • Publisher : Auckland University Press
  • Release : 2020-11-05
  • ISBN : 1776710673
  • Pages : 142 pages

Download or read book Te Ruanuku written by Paulo Coelho and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He purakau whakamiharo te pukapuka a Paulo Coelho mo Hanatiako, mo tetahi taitama hepara no Anaruhia e koingo ana ki te haereere ki te kimi i nga kura huna o te ao. I roto i tana haerenga, ka kite ia i etahi kura tino rereke nei i tana i pohewa ai e ea ai tana koingo. Ka whakaako mai Te Ruanuku i te pumanawa o te whakarongo ki o tatou ngakau, o te kite i nga huarahi, o te ako hoki ki te whakamaori i nga tohu ka puta mai i te wa o te ora me te akoranga nui katoa o te whai i o tatou moemoea.Nuku atu i te waru tekau ma rima miriona nga pukapuka kua hokona puta noa i te ao, a, he nui ake hoki te whakawhitihia o te pukapuka nei ki reo ke i to etahi atu pukapuka na tetahi kaituhi e ora tonu ana. Kua noho mai a Te Ruanuku hei pukapuka e kore nei e herea e te wa, penei i te reo Maori e newanewa nei tona rere i roto i tenei whakamaoritanga na Hemi Kelly.Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different &– and far more satisfying &– than he ever imagined. The Alchemist teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognising opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path. And, most importantly, to follow our dreams.With over eighty-five million copies sold around the world and translated into more languages than any other book by a living author, The Alchemist has established itself as a modern classic, now brilliantly translated into te reo Maori by Hemi Kelly.

Book Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology written by Theresa Bane and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairies have been revered and feared, sometimes simultaneously, throughout recorded history. This encyclopedia of concise entries, from the A-senee-ki-waku of northeastern North America to the Zips of Central America and Mexico, includes more than 2,500 individual beings and species of fairy and nature spirits from a wide range of mythologies and religions from all over the globe.

Book Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand

Download or read book Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand written by New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report     with Appendices

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  • Author : New Zealand. Joint Committee on Messrs. Brogden's Claims
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1882
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Report with Appendices written by New Zealand. Joint Committee on Messrs. Brogden's Claims and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nga Iwi O Tainui

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  • Author : Bruce Biggs
  • Publisher : Auckland University Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9781869401191
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book Nga Iwi O Tainui written by Bruce Biggs and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maori language biographies of Maori who appear in The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography Vol 1.

Book Dominion Museum Bulletin

Download or read book Dominion Museum Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Download or read book Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand written by Royal Society of New Zealand and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes proceedings of member institutes of the Society and of the Society's Science Congress through v. 84, 1956/57.