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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 Tangata Whenua

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  • Author : Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney, Aroha Harris
  • Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
  • Release : 2014-11-15
  • ISBN : 1927131413
  • Pages : 543 pages

Download or read book Tangata Whenua written by Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney, Aroha Harris and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History charts the sweep of Māori history from ancient origins through to the twenty-first century. Through narrative and images, it offers a striking overview of the past, grounded in specific localities and histories. The story begins with the migration of ancestral peoples out of South China, some 5,000 years ago. Moving through the Pacific, these early voyagers arrived in Aotearoa early in the second millennium AD, establishing themselves as tangata whenua in the place that would become New Zealand. By the nineteenth century, another wave of settlers brought new technology, ideas and trading opportunities – and a struggle for control of the land. Survival and resilience shape the history as it extends into the twentieth century, through two world wars, the growth of an urban culture, rising protest, and Treaty settlements. Today, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Māori are drawing on both international connections and their ancestral place in Aotearoa. Fifteen stunning chapters bring together scholarship in history, archaeology, traditional narratives and oral sources. A parallel commentary is offered through more than 500 images, ranging from the elegant shapes of ancient taonga and artefacts to impressions of Māori in the sketchbooks and paintings of early European observers, through the shifting focus of the photographer’s lens to the response of contemporary Māori artists to all that has gone before. The many threads of history are entwined in this compelling narrative of the people and the land, the story of a rich past that illuminates the present and will inform the future.

Book K  i Tahu

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  • Author : Arthur Hugh Carrington
  • Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 187724239X
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book K i Tahu written by Arthur Hugh Carrington and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable account presents oral tradition alongside archaeological evidence and narrative history. The editors both have extensive experience in researching the past of southern New Zealand, particularly Ngai Tahu. Te Maire Tau lectures in history at Canterbury University; Atholl Anderson is Professor of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.

Book Outcasts of the Gods

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  • Author : Hazel Petrie
  • Publisher : Auckland University Press
  • Release : 2015-09-25
  • ISBN : 177558786X
  • Pages : 443 pages

Download or read book Outcasts of the Gods written by Hazel Petrie and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Us Maoris used to practice slavery just like them poor Negroes had to endure in America . . .' says Beth Heke in Once Were Warriors. ‘Oh those evil colonials who destroyed Maori culture by ending slavery and cannibalism while increasing the life expectancy,' wrote one sarcastic blogger. So was Maori slavery ‘just like' the experience of Africans in the Americas and were British missionaries or colonial administrators responsible for ending the practice? What was the nature of freedom and unfreedom in Maori society and how did that intersect with the perceptions of British colonists and the anti-slavery movement? A meticulously researched book, Outcasts of the Gods? looks closely at a huge variety of evidence to answer these questions, analyzing bondage and freedom in traditional Maori society; the role of economics and mana in shaping captivity; and how the arrival of colonists and new trade opportunities transformed Maori society and the place of captives within it.

Book Traditional Lifeways of the Southern Maori

Download or read book Traditional Lifeways of the Southern Maori written by Herries Beattie and published by Otago University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beattie collected knowledge of Maori (especially Ngai Tahu) traditional culture presented in this book which has two major parts, Murihiku and Canterbury with shorter sections on Nelson and Westland.

Book The First Migration

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  • Author : Atholl Anderson
  • Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
  • Release : 2016-05-12
  • ISBN : 0947492801
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book The First Migration written by Atholl Anderson and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of years ago migrants from South China began the journey that took their descendants through the Pacific to the southernmost islands of Polynesia. Atholl Anderson’s ground-breaking synthesis of research and tradition charts this epic journey of New Zealand’s first human inhabitants. Taken from the multi-award-winning Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History this Text weaves together evidence from numerous sources: oral traditions, archaeology, genetics, linguistics, ethnography, historical observations, palaeoecology, climate change and more. The result is to people the ancient past: to offer readers a sense of the lives of Māori ancestors as they voyaged through centuries toward the South Pacific.

Book Two Worlds

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  • Author : Anne Salmond
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 1992-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780824817657
  • Pages : 488 pages

Download or read book Two Worlds written by Anne Salmond and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Worlds is a penetrating rethinking of that view. Drawing on local tribal knowledge as well as European accounts, Anne Salmond shows those first meetings in a new light. Both Maori and European protagonists were active, all fully human, following their own practical, political and mythological agendas, 'quite unlike those of their modern-day descendants in many ways'. The result is a work of trail-blazing significance in which many popular misconceptions and bigotries to do with common perceptions of traditional Maori society are revealed. It also opens up new possibilities in the international study of European exploration and 'discovery'.

Book Guns and Utu

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  • Author : Matthew Wright
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2011-08-01
  • ISBN : 1742287972
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Guns and Utu written by Matthew Wright and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'So they went forth, and they were given over to death by the guns.' -Rangipito, of Ngati Rahiri In the two decades before the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand was ripped asunder by island-spanning waves of warfare, extreme violence and cannibalism. Great war parties surged the length of the land to avenge historic grievances, killing and burning as they went. Whole peoples were uprooted and found new homes. Despite the name given them by history, one thing we can be certain about is that these dramatic conflicts were not simply 'musket' wars. This was an age of courage, of heroism, of great character and of astonishing deeds. And they are not dead history. Twenty-first-century New Zealand has been profoundly shaped by them, not least in the location of most of the major cities. In Guns and Utu, historian Matthew Wright disputes the many mythologies of these wars, examining some of the whys and wherefores of this generation-long culture collision. 'A spectacular book.' -Don Rood, Radio New Zealand National

Book Ancient Voyagers in Polynesia

Download or read book Ancient Voyagers in Polynesia written by Andrew Sharp and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute

Download or read book Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 694 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 1878 with total page 688 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.

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 and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transactions

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  • Author : Royal Society of New Zealand
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1878
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 690 pages

Download or read book Transactions written by Royal Society of New Zealand and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Art and Archaeology of Human Engagements with Birds of Prey

Download or read book The Art and Archaeology of Human Engagements with Birds of Prey written by Robert J. Wallis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all avian groups, birds of prey in particular have long been a prominent subject of fascination in many human societies. This book demonstrates that the art and materiality of human engagements with raptors has been significant through deep time and across the world, from earliest prehistory to Indigenous thinking in the present day. Drawing on a wide range of global case studies and a plurality of complementary perspectives, it explores the varied and fluid dynamics between humans and birds of prey as evidenced in this diverse art-historical and archaeological record. From their depictions as powerful beings in visual art and their important roles in Indigenous mythologies, to the significance of their body parts as active agents in religious rituals, the intentional deposition of their faunal remains and the display of their preserved bodies in museums, there is no doubt that birds of prey have been figures of great import for the shaping of human society and culture. However, several of the chapters in this volume are particularly concerned with looking beyond the culture–nature dichotomy and human-centred accounts to explore perspectival and other post-humanist thinking on human–raptor ontologies and epistemologies. The contributors recognize that human–raptor relationships are not driven exclusively by human intentionality, and that when these species meet they relate-to and become-with one another. This 'raptor-with-human'-focused approach allows for a productive re-framing of questions about human–raptor interstices, enables fresh thinking about established evidence and offers signposts for present and future intra-actions with birds of prey.

Book Bibliotheca Orientalis  Or  A Complete List of Books  Papers  Serials and Essays Published in     in England and the Colonies  Germany and France on the History  Languages  Religions  Antiquities  Literature and Geography of the East

Download or read book Bibliotheca Orientalis Or A Complete List of Books Papers Serials and Essays Published in in England and the Colonies Germany and France on the History Languages Religions Antiquities Literature and Geography of the East written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Traditional Maori Clothing

Download or read book Traditional Maori Clothing written by Sidney M. Mead and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: