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Book French Akaroa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Tremewan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book French Akaroa written by Peter Tremewan and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the elaborate French government-backed plans to settle and annex 'Southern New Zealand' - and at what the French did when they found the British had got there first. The lives of the French (and German) men, women and children who ended up creating little settlements in Akaroa Harbour is a major focus of this fascinating book, which also explains some of the French heritage that attracts so many tourists to the Banks Peninsula town of Akaroa today.

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 The New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology

Download or read book The New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Polynesian Mythology

Download or read book Polynesian Mythology written by George Grey and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TOWARDS the close of the year 1845 I was suddenly and unexpectedly required by the British Government to administer the affairs of New Zealand, and shortly afterwards received the appointment of Governor-in-chief of those Islands. When I arrived in them, I found Her Majesty's native subjects engaged in hostilities with the Queen's troops, against whom they had up to that time contended with considerable success; so much discontent also prevailed generally amongst the native population, that where disturbances had not yet taken place, there was too much reason to apprehend they would soon break out, as they shortly afterwards did, in several parts of the Islands.

Book Indigenous Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Property Rights

Download or read book Indigenous Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Property Rights written by Jessica Christine Lai and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-01-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now more than ever, indigenous peoples’ interests in their cultural heritage are in the spotlight. Yet, there is very little literature that comprehensively discusses how existing laws can and cannot be used to address indigenous peoples’ interests. This book assesses how intangible aspects of indigenous cultural heritage (and the tangible objects that hold them) can be protected, within the realm of a broad range of existing legal orders, including intellectual property and related rights, consumer protection law, common law and equitable doctrines, and human rights. It does so by focusing on the New Zealand Māori. The book also looks to the future, analysing the long-awaited Wai 262 report, released in New Zealand by the Waitangi Tribunal in response to allegations that the government had failed in its duty to ensure that the Māori retain chieftainship over their tangible and intangible treasures, as required by the Treaty of Waitangi, signed between the Māori and the British Crown in 1840.

Book Spiritual and Mental Concepts of the Maori

Download or read book Spiritual and Mental Concepts of the Maori written by Elsdon Best and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiritual and Mental Concepts of the Maori by Elsdon Best, first published in 1922, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

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 The Maori

Download or read book The Maori written by Elsdon Best and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book After Tylor

    Book Details:
  • Author : George W. Stocking
  • Publisher : 秀和システム
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780299145842
  • Pages : 596 pages

Download or read book After Tylor written by George W. Stocking and published by 秀和システム. This book was released on 1995 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This impressively solid, judicious, and authoritative text will surely serve the profession for a long time to come."--Michael Young, Journal of theHistory of the Behavioral Sciences

Book Encircled Lands

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judith Binney
  • Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
  • Release : 2021-05-07
  • ISBN : 1927131081
  • Pages : 670 pages

Download or read book Encircled Lands written by Judith Binney and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Europeans during the nineteenth century, the Urewera was a remote wilderness; for those who lived there, it was a sheltering heartland. This history documents the first hundred years of the ‘Rohe Pōtae’ (the ‘encircled lands’ of the Urewera) following European contact. After large areas of land were lost, the Urewera became for a brief period an autonomous district, governed by its own leaders. But in 1921–22, the Urewera District Native Reserve was abolished in law. Its very existence became largely forgotten – except in local memory. Recovering this history from a wealth of contemporary documents, many written by Urewera leaders, Encircled Lands contextualises Tūhoe’s quest for a constitutional agreement that restores their authority in their lands.

Book South Island Maoris a sketch of their history and legendary lore

Download or read book South Island Maoris a sketch of their history and legendary lore written by J.W. Stack and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1898 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hui

Download or read book Hui written by Anne Salmond and published by Raupo. This book was released on 2009 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Maori people gather for a Hui, they have immediate access to an ancestral world which remains a living reality for as long as the hui lasts. Hui incorporate all Maori ceremonial gatherings: openings of new marae, tangihanga (funerals), hurahanga kohatu (unveilings), birthdays and anniversaries, and tribal policy making. This book introduces us to all aspects of the hui and its significance to Maori. It is a definitive study of ceremonial gatherings and the rituals that are the life blood of the marae.

Book Politics of M  ori Self determination

Download or read book Politics of M ori Self determination written by Mason Durie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book concerns contemporary development in Maori as well as this nation's aspirations for greater autonomy. Mason Durie offers a detailed account of Maori's legislative efforts at self-determination by highlighting the legal battles and conflicting attitudes between Maori and the Crown. Environmental management, issues related to the retention of language and culture, Maori representation in Parliament, and the Treaty of Waitangi are among the topics covered in this balanced and reasonable socio-political assessment.

Book The Return of the Gift

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harry Liebersohn
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2010-12-06
  • ISBN : 1139495496
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book The Return of the Gift written by Harry Liebersohn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history of European interpretations of the gift from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Reciprocal gift exchange, pervasive in traditional European society, disappeared from the discourse of nineteenth-century social theory only to return as a major theme in twentieth-century anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy and literary studies. Modern anthropologists encountered gift exchange in Oceania and the Pacific Northwest and returned the idea to European social thought; Marcel Mauss synthesized their insights with his own readings from remote times and places in his famous 1925 essay on the gift, the starting-point for subsequent discussion. The Return of the Gift demonstrates how European intellectual history can gain fresh significance from global contexts.

Book Best of Both Worlds

Download or read book Best of Both Worlds written by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1895 a meeting took place in the rugged Urewera ranges - Tuhoe country - that would have lasting effects on our views of traditional Maori society. Elsdon Best, a self-taught anthropologist and quartermaster on the road past Lake Waikaremoana, was sought out by a leading Tuhoe chief, Tutakangahau of Maungapohatu. The stories he gave to Best to be recorded for future generations are with us today. Best went on to become a noted Pakeha authority on a people he would style as the last of 'the oldtime Maori'. How much did the old man tell him? Was it freely given? Can Best's writings - so pervasive today in our understanding of Maori culture - be truly relied upon? In his unique examination of this historically significant relationship, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman poses such searching questions, further informing a vital national debate on the shared identity - and destiny - of Maori and Pakeha. 'This is our history at its best.' --Matthew Wright, Sunday Star-Times

Book The Invention of God in Indigenous Societies

Download or read book The Invention of God in Indigenous Societies written by James Cox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous societies around the world have been historically disparaged by European explorers, colonial officials and Christian missionaries. Nowhere was this more evident than in early descriptions of indigenous religions as savage, primitive, superstitious and fetishistic. Liberal intellectuals, both indigenous and colonial, reacted to this by claiming that, before indigenous peoples ever encountered Europeans, they all believed in a Supreme Being. The Invention of God in Indigenous Societies argues that, by alleging that God can be located at the core of pre-Christian cultures, this claim effectively invents a tradition which only makes sense theologically if God has never left himself without a witness. Examining a range of indigenous religions from North America, Africa and Australasia - the Shona of Zimbabwe, the "Rainbow Spirit Theology" in Australia, the Yupiit of Alaska, and the Māori of New Zealand – the book argues that the interests of indigenous societies are best served by carefully describing their religious beliefs and practices using historical and phenomenological methods – just as would be done in the study of any world religion.

Book Between Worlds

Download or read book Between Worlds written by Frances E. Karttunen and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the globe and the centuries, Frances Karttunen tells the stories of sixteen men and women who served as interpreters and guides to conquerors, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, and anthropologists. These interpreters acted as uncomfortable bridges between two worlds; their own marginality, the fact that they belonged to neither world, suggests the complexity and tension between cultures meeting for the first time. Some of the guides were literally dragged into their roles; others volunteered. The most famous ones were especially skilled at living in two worlds and surviving to recount their experiences. Among outsiders, the interpreters found protection. sustenance, recognition, intellectual companionship, and employment, yet most of the interpreters ultimately suffered tragic fates. Between Worlds addresses the broadest issues of cross-cultural encounters, imperialism, and capitalism and gives them a human face.