Author: James CowanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Advertising
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The Bible and Art, Perspectives from Oceania
Author: Caroline BlythPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567673308
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This volume takes readers on a fascinating journey through the visual arts of Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Islands, contemplating the multivocal dialogues that occur between these artistic media and the texts and traditions of the Bible. With their distinctively antipodean perspectives, contributors explore the innovative ways that both creators and beholders of Oceanic arts draw upon their contexts and cultures in order to open up creative engagements with the stories, themes and theologies of the biblical traditions. Various motifs weave their way throughout the volume, including antipodean landscapes and ecology, (post)colonialism, philosophy, Oceanic spiritualities and the often contested engagements between western and indigenous cultures. Within this weaving process, each essay invites readers to contemplate these various forms of visual culture through Oceanic eyes, and to appreciate the fresh insights that this process can bring to reading and interpreting the biblical traditions. The result is a rich and interdisciplinary array of conversations that will capture the attention of readers within the fields of biblical reception studies, cultural studies, theology and art history.
A Dictionary of the Maori Language
Author: Bp. Herbert William WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Māori language
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Transactions and Proceedings
Author: Royal Society of New ZealandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Abnormal Psychology in Context
Author: Nadine PellingPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107499771
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Abnormal Psychology in Context focuses on Australian and New Zealand perspectives, showcasing local research, statistics and resources.
The Maoris of New Zealand
Author: James CowanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Advertising
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Author: Royal Society of New ZealandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Includes proceedings of member institutes of the Society and of the Society's Science Congress through v. 84, 1956/57.
Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Author: Transactions
Author: Royal Society of New ZealandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Author: Royal Society of New ZealandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Includes proceedings of member institutes of the Society and of the Society's Science Congress through v. 84, 1956/57.
A Whakapapa of Tradition
Author: Ngarino EllisPublisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1775587436
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
From the emergence of the chapel and the wharenui in the nineteenth century to the rejuvenation of carving by Apirana Ngata in the 1920s, Maori carving went through a rapid evolution from 1830 to 1930. Focusing on thirty meeting houses, Ngarino Ellis tells the story of Ngati Porou carving and a profound transformation in Maori art. Beginning around 1830, three previously dominant art traditions – waka taua (war canoes), pataka (decorated storehouses) and whare rangatira (chief's houses) – declined and were replaced by whare karakia (churches), whare whakairo (decorated meeting houses) and wharekai (dining halls). Ellis examines how and why that fundamental transformation took place by exploring the Iwirakau School of carving, based in the Waiapu Valley on the East Coast of the North Island. An ancestor who lived around the year 1700, Iwirakau is credited for reinvigorating the art of carving in the Waiapu region. The six major carvers of his school went on to create more than thirty important meeting houses and other structures. During this transformational period, carvers and patrons re-negotiated key concepts such as tikanga (tradition), tapu (sacredness) and mana (power, authority) – embedding them within the new architectural forms whilst preserving rituals surrounding the creation and use of buildings. A Whakapapa of Tradition tells us much about the art forms themselves but also analyzes the environment that made carving and building possible: the patrons who were the enablers and transmitters of culture; the carvers who engaged with modern tools and ideas; and the communities as a whole who created the new forms of art and architecture. This book is both a major study of Ngati Porou carving and an attempt to make sense of Maori art history. What makes a tradition in Maori art? Ellis asks. How do traditions begin? Who decides this? Conversely, how and why do traditions cease? And what forces are at play which make some buildings acceptable and others not? Beautifully illustrated with new photography by Natalie Robertson, and drawing on the work of key scholars to make a new synthetic whole, this book will be a landmark volume in the history of writing about Maori art.