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Book Carved Histories

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  • Author : Roger Neich
  • Publisher : Auckland University Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9781869402570
  • Pages : 462 pages

Download or read book Carved Histories written by Roger Neich and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide examines the personal histories, roles, and personalities that played into the traditional cultural art of carving. It also traces the influence of European patronage and the ensuing tourist trade upon this art form, as many Maori carvers began styling and catering their product to meet their clients’ aesthetic desires. Included is a discussion of the establishment of the government-sponsored Rotorua School of Maori Art in 1928, which appointed as the main tutor Eramiha Kapua, a Ngati Tarawhai carver, thus helping his own traditional tribal art to make the transition into a modern “national” art.

Book Archaeology and History of the Chinese in Southern New Zealand During the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book Archaeology and History of the Chinese in Southern New Zealand During the Nineteenth Century written by Neville A. Ritchie and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of Dr Neville A. Ritchie’s 1986 PhD dissertation explores the history and archaeology of the 19th century Chinese mining communities in the Clutha Valley, New Zealand. Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white line drawings of Chinese domestic and industrial sites, and of the artefacts excavated from them, this study offers unprecedented insight into the life and material culture of these male-only “sojourner” communities. Widely considered the most comprehensive archaeological study of overseas Chinese miners’ experience anywhere in the world, this volume contains the total summation and analysis of artefacts found in 23 Chinese sites excavated over nine years, which included two camps (with 40 individual huts and other features), a Chinese store and 20 rural sites, including miner’s huts and rock shelters. Considered by the Australian Society for Historical Archaeology to be a seminal work in the field of historical archaeology, this 2023 edition introduces Dr. Ritchie’s groundbreaking work to the next generation of archaeologists.

Book The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

Download or read book The Cyclopedia of New Zealand written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Blood Brothers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeff Hopkins-Weise
  • Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
  • Release : 2007-01-22
  • ISBN : 1742288626
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Blood Brothers written by Jeff Hopkins-Weise and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2007-01-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the middle of the nineteenth century, the very existence of European colonial settlement in New Zealand was under threat. With Queen Victoria's British forces stretched thinly across the globe, the New Zealand colony had to look to its sister colonial states in Australia for support. This ground-breaking work shows, for the first time in detail, how the military, social and economic brotherhood later embodied in the notion of the Anzac spirit began not on the sandy beaches of Gallipoli but 50 years earlier in the damp forests and fields of the North Island of New Zealand

Book Turning the Pages

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  • Author : Anna Rogers
  • Publisher : Raupo
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Turning the Pages written by Anna Rogers and published by Raupo. This book was released on 1993 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Zealand English

Download or read book New Zealand English written by Elizabeth Gordon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-20 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Zealand English - at just 150 years old - is one of the newest varieties of English, and is unique in that its full history and development are documented in extensive audio-recordings. The rich corpus of spoken language provided by New Zealand's 'mobile disk unit' has provided insight into how the earliest New Zealand-born settlers spoke, and consequently, how this new variety of English developed. On the basis of these recordings, this book examines and analyses the extensive linguistic changes New Zealand English has undergone since it was first spoken in the 1850s. The authors, all experts in phonetics and sociolinguistics, use the data to test previous explanations for new dialect formation, and to challenge current claims about the nature of language change. The first ever corpus-based study of the evolution of New Zealand English, this book will be welcomed by all those interested in phonetics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and dialectology.

Book New Zealand Lizards

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  • Author : David G. Chapple
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2016-10-05
  • ISBN : 331941674X
  • Pages : 381 pages

Download or read book New Zealand Lizards written by David G. Chapple and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume is a timely and comprehensive summary of the New Zealand lizard fauna. Nestled in the south-west Pacific, New Zealand is a large archipelago that displays the faunal signatures of both its Gondwanan origins, and more recent oceanic island influences. New Zealand was one of the last countries on Earth to be discovered, and likewise, the full extent of the faunal diversity present within the archipelago is only just starting to be appreciated. This is no better exemplified than in lizards, where just 30 species (20 skinks, 10 geckos) were recognized in the 1950s, but now 104 are formally or informally recognized (61 skinks, 43 geckos). Thus, New Zealand contains one of the most diverse lizard faunas of any cool, temperate region on Earth. This book brings together the world’s leading experts in the field to produce an authoritative overview of the history, taxonomy, biogeography, ecology, life-history, physiology and conservation of New Zealand lizards.

Book No Better Death

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  • Author : John Crawford
  • Publisher : Exisle Publishing
  • Release : 2014-09-01
  • ISBN : 177559128X
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book No Better Death written by John Crawford and published by Exisle Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Gallipoli has been told many times, but few first-hand accounts exist, and none shows such acute observation as this one by the commander who led the assault on Chunuk Bair: Lieutenant-Colonel W. G. Malone. His diary and letters reveal a man of honesty, wit, knowledge and courage — and tell a moving story we should never forget. Lieutenant-Colonel W. G. Malone, commanding officer of the Wellington Battalion of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli, is best known for his capture and heroic defence of Chunuk Bair on 8 August 1915. A gifted leader of men, he planned the action with his characteristic good sense and attention to detail. Chunuk Bair was held for two days before being lost in the last of a series of furious counter-attacks. By then William Malone was dead, and New Zealand had lost one of its finest officers. It emerged later that Malone had left behind a detailed diary and a large number of letters to family members and friends. Always shrewd and observant, Malone charts almost daily the events in the year leading up to Chunuk Bair: his preparation for war, the training camps, the voyage to Egypt, landing at Gallipoli, and life on the peninsula during the eventful few months from April to August 1915. Renowned for his imposition of tight discipline, Malone was nevertheless a caring and thoughtful leader of his men, always concerned for their welfare. He also loved his family, and in particular his second wife Ida. His letters to her are among the most moving in this book, and his tender concern for their young family back home shines through. The story of his older sons, three of whom also served in the Great War, forms part of the narrative too, a family story which continues right up to 2012, when Malone’s great-great-grandson was killed on active service in Afghanistan.

Book The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

Download or read book The Cyclopedia of New Zealand written by and published by . This book was released on 190? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tides of History

Download or read book Tides of History written by Kay Boese and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Leisure and Pleasure

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  • Author : Caroline Daley
  • Publisher : Auckland University Press
  • Release : 2013-10-01
  • ISBN : 177558108X
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Leisure and Pleasure written by Caroline Daley and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploration of an unexpected aspect of New Zealand social history examines the human body at leisure in the years 1900&–1960. This book studies bodybuilding, especially the famous strongman Eugen Sandow; growing ideas about fitness, health, and exercise; the rise of beauty contests; the culture of the beach and the pool; nudism; and children's play and the appearance of playgrounds. The central aim is to explore how bodies—men's, women's and children's—were shaped and displayed through various leisure pursuits in 20th-century New Zealand.

Book Archaeology in New Zealand

Download or read book Archaeology in New Zealand written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Insanity and Immigration Control in New Zealand and Australia  1860   1930

Download or read book Insanity and Immigration Control in New Zealand and Australia 1860 1930 written by Jennifer S. Kain and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the policy and practice of the insanity clauses within the immigration controls of New Zealand and the Commonwealth of Australia. It reveals those charged with operating the legislation to be non-psychiatric gatekeepers who struggled to match its intent. Regardless of the evolution in language and the location at which a migrant’s mental suitability was assessed, those with ‘inherent mental defects’ and ‘transient insanity’ gained access to these regions. This book accounts for the increased attempts to medicalise border control in response to the widening scope of terminology used for mental illnesses, disabilities and dysfunctions. Such attempts co-existed with the promotion of these regions as ‘invalids’ paradises’ by governments, shipping companies, and non-asylum doctors. Using a bureaucratic lens, this book exposes these paradoxes, and the failings within these nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australasian nation-state building exercises.

Book The German Connection

    Book Details:
  • Author : James N. Bade
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book The German Connection written by James N. Bade and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German connection with New Zealand during the nineteenth century is an important part of New Zealand's heritage, but for various reasons it has remained a neglected part of New Zealand history. James Bade and his team of contributors seek to redress the balance with this generously illustrated volume, which examines not only early German settlement, but also the contribution of German and Austrian scientists, artists, musicians, businessmen, and missionaries to the New Zealand way of life.

Book Rewena and Rabbit Stew

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katie Cooper
  • Publisher : Auckland University Press
  • Release : 2024-08-08
  • ISBN : 1776711335
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book Rewena and Rabbit Stew written by Katie Cooper and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-08 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cookhouses and wharekai, hangi pits and coal ranges, boil-ups and mutton &– this book tells the hearty story of sustenance and manaakitanga in rural New Zealand. The rhythms and routines of country life are at the heart of this compelling account of the rural kitchen in Aotearoa. Historian Katie Cooper explores how cooking and food practices shaped the daily lives, homes and communities of rural Pakeha and Maori throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Delving into cooking technologies, provisions, gender roles and hospitality, the story of New Zealand' s rural kitchen highlights more than just the practicalities of putting food on the table.Thoroughly researched and richly illustrated, Rewena and Rabbit Stew reveals the fascinating social and cultural milieu in which rural people produced, cooked and shared food in Aotearoa.

Book New Zealand National Bibliography

Download or read book New Zealand National Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Zealand Libraries

Download or read book New Zealand Libraries written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: