Games and Pastimes of the Maori

Games and Pastimes of the Maori PDF Author: Elsdon Best
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Elsdon Best (1856-1931) was New Zealand's foremost ethnographer of Maori social life and customs. Today, his work remains a unique and valuable record of Maori tradition. Eleven titles have been reprinted.

Games and Pastimes of the Maori

Games and Pastimes of the Maori PDF Author: Elsdon Best
Publisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Book Description
Elsdon Best (1856-1931) was New Zealand's foremost ethnographer of Maori social life and customs. Today, his work remains a unique and valuable record of Maori tradition. Eleven titles have been reprinted.

Maori Music

Maori Music PDF Author: Mervyn McLean
Publisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1775581187
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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This book is the best introduction available to Maori music &– the instruments played, the songs and dance styles and what they were used for, performance, composition, teaching, etc. Based on 30 years of fieldwork that yielded 1300 recorded songs and hundred of pages of interviews and eyewitness accounts, this is a classic book.

The Maori Division of Time

The Maori Division of Time PDF Author: Elsdon Best
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Category : Chronology, Māori
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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Excerpt from The Maori Division of Time In his interesting work entitled Neolithic Dew-ponds and Cattleways A.J. Hubbard wrote as follows: Early man naturally measured the year from the ripening of the crops of one year to the corresponding period in the succeeding year.

Transformations

Transformations PDF Author: Helen Schwartzman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461339383
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 395

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Writing a book about play leads to wondering. In writing this book, I wondered first if it would be taken seriously and then if it might be too serious. Eventually, I realized that these concerns were cast in terms of the major dichotomy that I wished to question, that is, the very perva sive and very inaccurate division that Western cultures make between play and seriousness (or play and work, fantasy and reality, and so forth). The study of play provides researchers with a special arena for re-thinking this opposition, and in this book an attempt is made to do this by reviewing and evaluating studies of children's transformations (their play) in relation to the history of anthropologists' transformations (their theories). While studying play, I have wondered in the company of many individuals. I would first like to thank my husband, John Schwartzman, for acting as both my strongest supporter and, as an anthropological colleague, my severest critic. His sense of nonsense is always novel as well as instructive. I am also very grateful to Linda Barbera-Stein for her Sherlock Holmes style help in locating obscure references, checking and cross-checking information, and patience and persistence in the face of what at times appeared to be bibliographic chaos. I also owe special thanks to my teachers of anthropology-Paul J. Bohannan, Johannes Fabian, Edward T. Hall, and Roy Wagner-whose various orientations have directly and indirectly influenced the approach presented in this book.

The Maori School of Learning

The Maori School of Learning PDF Author: Elsdon Best
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Category : Māori (New Zealand people)
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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The Journal of the Polynesian Society

The Journal of the Polynesian Society PDF Author: Polynesian Society (N.Z.)
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Category : Polynesia
Languages : en
Pages : 882

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Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.

Handy Games

Handy Games PDF Author:
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Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Spiritual and Mental Concepts of the Maori

Spiritual and Mental Concepts of the Maori PDF Author: Elsdon Best
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Spiritual and Mental Concepts of the Maori by Elsdon Best, first published in 1922, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Many Voices

Many Voices PDF Author: Henry Johnson
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443821829
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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This collection of fourteen essays provides a starting point to re-think music and national identity in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The papers offer various perspectives on the interconnections between music and identity, while providing case-studies on diverse topics including performance, composition, and musical styles. Based on a conference held at the University of Otago, the book covers three broad themes: Cultural Diversity; Popular Culture; and, Education and High-Art. Within any nation, individuals might have a cultural identity that is related to notions of being or becoming, or they may live transcultural lives. One consequence of the nation-state is that notions of national identity are often challenged and continually changing, often brought about by social and cultural flows such as those connected with music. The intention of this book is to open up critical discourse on the many musics of Aotearoa/New Zealand. The papers represent a few sounds of a diverse nation, and sounds that do much to represent place, very often Aotearoa/New Zealand and beyond. The papers cannot cover everything, but what they can offer will hopefully open up further research on the many voices of those who call Aotearoa/New Zealand home.

Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society

Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society PDF Author: Rodney P. Carlisle
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412966701
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 1033

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Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine, January 2010 The Encyclopedia of Play: A Social History explores the concept of play in history and modern society in the United States and internationally. Its scope encompasses leisure and recreation activities of children as well as adults throughout the ages, from dice games in the Roman empire to video games today. As an academic social history, it includes the perspectives of several curricular disciplines, from sociology to child psychology, from lifestyle history to social epidemiology. This two-volume set will serve as a general, non-technical resource for students in education and human development, health and sports psychology, leisure and recreation studies and kinesiology, history, and other social sciences to understand the importance of play as it has developed globally throughout history and to appreciate the affects of play on child and adult development, particularly on health, creativity, and imagination.