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Book Tawhaki Nui a Hema

Download or read book Tawhaki Nui a Hema written by Sidney M. Mead and published by Raupo. This book was released on 1996 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Māori legend, the deeds and achievements of Tāwhaki are as awesome as those of the more famous Māui. Like Māui, Tāwhaki was a demigod whose accomplishments exceeded those of mere mortals. He came back to life, having apparently been killed by his brothers; he miraculously restored his grandmother's sight; and most famously of all he succeeded against the odds in ascending to the heavens in search of his wife Tangotango."--Back cover.

Book The Journal of the Polynesian Society

Download or read book The Journal of the Polynesian Society written by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.

Book Dancing with the King

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Belgrave
  • Publisher : Auckland University Press
  • Release : 2017-10-24
  • ISBN : 1775589390
  • Pages : 719 pages

Download or read book Dancing with the King written by Michael Belgrave and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the battle of Orakau in 1864 and the end of the war in the Waikato, Tawhiao, the second Maori King, and his supporters were forced into an armed isolation in the Rohe Potae, the King Country. For the next twenty years, the King Country operated as an independent state – a land governed by the Maori King where settlers and the Crown entered at risk of their lives. Dancing with the King is the story of the King Country when it was the King's country, and of the negotiations between the King and the Queen that finally opened the area to European settlement. For twenty years, the King and the Queen's representatives engaged in a dance of diplomacy involving gamesmanship, conspiracy, pageantry and hard headed politics, with the occasional act of violence or threat of it. While the Crown refused to acknowledge the King's legitimacy, the colonial government and the settlers were forced to treat Tawhiao as a King, to negotiate with him as the ruler and representative of a sovereign state, and to accord him the respect and formality that this involved. Colonial negotiators even made Tawhiao offers of settlement that came very close to recognising his sovereign authority. Dancing with the King is a riveting account of a key moment in New Zealand history as an extraordinary cast of characters – Tawhiao and Rewi Maniapoto, Donald McLean and George Grey – negotiated the role of the King and the Queen, of Maori and Pakeha, in New Zealand.

Book Indigenous Autoethnography

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kelli Te Maihāroa
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 981996718X
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Indigenous Autoethnography written by Kelli Te Maihāroa and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Maori Polynesian Comparative Dictionary

Download or read book The Maori Polynesian Comparative Dictionary written by Edward Tregear and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Māori dictionary with English definitions and Polynesian comparisons"--BIM.

Book Book   Print in New Zealand

Download or read book Book Print in New Zealand written by Douglas Ross Harvey and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to print culture in Aotearoa, the impact of the book and other forms of print on New Zealand. This collection of essays by many contributors looks at the effect of print on Maori and their oral traditions, printing, publishing, bookselling, libraries, buying and collecting, readers and reading, awards, and the print culture of many other language groups in New Zealand.

Book Hawaiki  the Whence of the Maori

Download or read book Hawaiki the Whence of the Maori written by Stephenson Percy Smith and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Twhaki

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hirini Moko Mead
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022-02
  • ISBN : 9781775506577
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Twhaki written by Hirini Moko Mead and published by . This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tawhaki: The Deeds of a Demigod recalls the miraculous life of Tawhaki. Similar to Maui, Tawhaki was a demigod who possessed mighty powers. Tawhaki almost died at the hands of his brothers-in-law but was found by his wife Hine-piripiri and revived. This near-death experience revealed Tawhaki's status as a demigod, and from this point Tawhaki continued to use his powers and gifts to help those around him in ways no human could. This book explores many of these stories, including those of Tawhaki restoring sight to his blind grandmother and climbing the heavens to find his wife and child.

Book A Book in the Hand

Download or read book A Book in the Hand written by Penelope Griffith and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we find ourselves in a technological revolution and the computer screen takes over the printed page, the history of the book has become a subject of study throughout the world. This collection of 15 essays looks at at a wide variety of topics from the history of the printed word in New Zealand.

Book Te Whatu T  niko

Download or read book Te Whatu T niko written by Sidney M. Mead and published by Raupo. This book was released on 1999 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people of Tuarā-rangaia and the surrounding area are shocked to discover that a taniwha has taken up residence in a cave near a busy track. When the son of an important chief is carried off, they decide it's time to rid themselves of this menace. Many plans are made but time after time the taniwha outwits them. Suggested level: intermediate, secondary.

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 Intellectual Property at the Edge

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2014-06-19
  • ISBN : 1139916416
  • Pages : 491 pages

Download or read book Intellectual Property at the Edge written by Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intellectual Property at the Edge addresses both newly formed intellectual property rights and those which have lurked on the fringes, unadmitted to the established IP canon. It provides a basis for studying and discussing the history of these emerging rights as well as their relationship to new technological opportunities and to the changing importance of innovation and creative production in the global economy. In addition to addressing the scope of new rights, it also focuses on new limitations to patent, copyright and trademark rights that spring from similar changes. All of these developments are examined comparatively: for each new development, scholars in two jurisdictions analyse the evolving legal norm. In several instances, the first of the paired authors writes from the perspective of the legal system in which the doctrine emerged, and the second addresses its reception in her jurisdiction.

Book Hawaiian Mythology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martha Warren Beckwith
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2021-05-25
  • ISBN : 0824840712
  • Pages : 609 pages

Download or read book Hawaiian Mythology written by Martha Warren Beckwith and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ku and Hina—man and woman—were the great ancestral gods of heaven and earth for the ancient Hawaiians. They were life's fruitfulness and all the generations of mankind, both those who are to come and those already born. The Hawaiian gods were like great chiefs from far lands who visited among the people, entering their daily lives sometimes as humans or animals, sometimes taking residence in a stone or wooden idol. As years passed, the families of gods grew and included the trickster Maui, who snared the sun, and fiery Pele of the volcano. Ancient Hawaiians lived by the animistic philosophy that assigned living souls to animals, trees, stones, stars, and clouds, as well as to humans. Religion and mythology were interwoven in Hawaiian culture; and local legends and genealogies were preserved in song, chant, and narrative. Martha Beckwith was the first scholar to chart a path through the hundreds of books, articles, and little-known manuscripts that recorded the oral narratives of the Hawaiian people. Her book has become a classic work of folklore and ethnology, and the definitive treatment of Hawaiian mythology. With an introduction by Katherine Luomala.

Book Recovering Our Ancestral Foodways

Download or read book Recovering Our Ancestral Foodways written by Mariaelena Huambachano and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Recovering Our Ancestral Foodways is the first relational ethnography of Quechua and Måaori peoples' philosophies of well-being, traditional ecological knowledge, and contributions to sustainable food systems. Based on over ten years of fieldwork in Peru and Aotearoa New Zealand, this book explores how Quechua and Måaori peoples describe, define, and enact well-being through the lens of foodways. By analyzing how two Indigenous communities operationalize knowledge to promote sustainable food systems, physical and spiritual well-being, and community health, Mariaelena Huambachano unearths a powerful philosophy of food sovereignty called the Chakana/Maahutonga. Huambachano argues that this Indigenous food sovereignty framework offers a foundation for understanding the practices and policies needed to transform the global food system to nourish the world and preserve the Earth. One of the key features of this book, written for Indigenous communities, students, and scholars, is the development of the author's original research methodology, called the Khipu Model, which will serve as a vital resource for future research on Indigenous ways of knowing"--

Book Ancient Tahiti

Download or read book Ancient Tahiti written by Teuira Henry and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book International Trade in Indigenous Cultural Heritage

Download or read book International Trade in Indigenous Cultural Heritage written by Christoph Beat Graber and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text sets the standard for researchers working on the difficult issues raised by trade and commerce in indigenous cultural heritage.

Book The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English

Download or read book The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English written by Terry Sturm and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most comprehensive history of New Zealand literature to have been published. It offers chapters on the novel, poetry, and on the short story, which have been the staple of earlier histories and surveys, as well as sections on drama, non-ficiton, children's literature, popular literature, and the history of publishing, patronage and literary magazines. In this major new edition, material is provided on the period from 1986-1996, and a new chapter has been included on literary scholarship, criticism, and theory.