Author: Norman Barnett TindalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Rangatira, the High-born
Author: Norman Barnett TindalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Rangatira
Author: Paula MorrisPublisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1742532217
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Based on a true story Auckland, June 1886. Ngati Wai chief Paratene Te Manu spends long sessions, over three long days, having his portrait painted by the Bohemian painter Gottfried Lindauer. Hearing of Lindauer's planned trip to England reminds him of his own journey there, twenty years earlier, with a party of northern rangatira. As he sits for Lindauer, Paratene retreats deeper and deeper into the past, from the triumphs in London and their meetings with royalty to the disintegration of the visit into poverty, mistrust, and humiliation. 'Morris' research is both thorough and thoughtful . . . With its light, often wry tone, much of the story-telling is amusing, albeit desperately poignant.' —Margie Thomson, Canvas 'An extraordinary literary achievement and probably the best of recent New Zealand historical novels.' —Nicholas Reid, New Zealand Books '[An] adroitly told historical novel . . . Paratene – old, forgetful but wise and generous in his appraisals – is our lens, and he's a triumph of characterisation, his voice genial and flawlessly authentic.' —John McCrystal, New Zealand Listener Also available as an eBook
The Old-Time Maori
Author: Makereti PapakuraPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1446546624
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This vintage book contains a fascinating and insightful account of the 'old-time' Maori of New Zealand, written by Makereti, the sometime chieftainess of the Arawa Tribe of the Maori of New Zealand. This text will appeal to anyone with an interest in the Maori of New Zealand or in the life and mind of Maggie Papakura, and it would make for a great addition to any bookshelf. The chapters of this book include: Social Organization and Relationship Terms, Marriage, Children, Food, Fire, Houses, Weapons, Full Description of the Photographs, and Principal Genealogies. We are republishing this antiquarian book now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
Transactions and Proceedings
Author: Royal Society of New ZealandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Transactions
Author: Royal Society of New ZealandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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 New Zealand Institute
Author: New Zealand InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
The proceedings or notices of the member institutes of the society form part of the section "Proceedings" in each volume; lists of members are included in v. 1-41, 43-60, 64-
Tears of Rangi
Author: Anne SalmondPublisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1775589242
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 559
Book Description
Six centuries ago Polynesian explorers, who inhabited a cosmos in which islands sailed across the sea and stars across the sky, arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand where they rapidly adapted to new plants, animals, landscapes and climatic conditions. Four centuries later, European explorers arrived with maps and clocks, grids and fences, and they too adapted to a new island home. In this remote, beautiful archipelago, settlers from Polynesia and Europe (and elsewhere) have clashed and forged alliances, they have fiercely debated what is real and what is common sense, what is good and what is right. In this, her most ambitious book to date, Dame Anne Salmond looks at New Zealand as a site of cosmo-diversity, a place where multiple worlds engage and collide. Beginning with a fine-grained inquiry into the early period of encounters between Maori and Europeans in New Zealand (1769–1840), Salmond then investigates such clashes and exchanges in key areas of contemporary life – waterways, land, the sea and people. We live in a world of gridded maps, Outlook calendars and balance sheets – making it seem that this is the nature of reality itself. But in New Zealand, concepts of whakapapa and hau, complex networks and reciprocal exchange, may point to new ways of understanding interactions between peoples, and between people and the natural world. Like our ancestors, Anne Salmond suggests, we too may have a chance to experiment across worlds.
Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Author: Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Author: Royal Society of New ZealandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Includes proceedings of member institutes of the Society and of the Society's Science Congress through v. 84, 1956/57.