He korero pūrākau mo

He korero pūrākau mo PDF Author: New Zealand Geographic Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legends
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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Book Description
Sample collection of Maori oral maps, i.e. etiologies for various geographical points of New Zealand. Text in English and Maori.

He korero pūrākau mo

He korero pūrākau mo PDF Author: New Zealand Geographic Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legends
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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Book Description
Sample collection of Maori oral maps, i.e. etiologies for various geographical points of New Zealand. Text in English and Maori.

Tupaia, Captain Cook and the Voyage of the Endeavour

Tupaia, Captain Cook and the Voyage of the Endeavour PDF Author: Khadija Von Zinnenburg Carroll
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350157503
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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Book Description
Centring priest and navigator Tupaia and Pacific worldviews, this richly illustrated volume weaves a new set of cultural histories in the Pacific, between local islanders and the crew of the Endeavour on James Cook's first 'voyage of discovery' (1768-1771). Contributors consider material collections brought back from the voyage, paying particular attention to Tupaia's drawings, maps, cloth and clothes, and the attending narratives that framed Britain's engagement with Pacific peoples. Bringing together indigenous and Pacific-based artists, scholars, historians, theorists and tailors, this book presents a cross-cultural conversation around the concepts of acquired and curated artefacts that traversed oceans and entwined cultures. Each chapter draws attention to a particular material, object or process to reveal fresh insights on the voyage, the societies it brought together and the histories it transformed. Authors also explore animal iconography, instruments and ethnomusicology, and performances and rituals. This work challenges colonial museum collections and celebrations of Cook's voyages, using materials old and new to make connections between past and present, whilst reinforcing Tupaia's agency as both a historical figure and a contemporary muse. Tracing overlapping folds of symbolism, this book draws together a picture of the diverse materials and people at the centre of cultural exchange.

The Big Questions

The Big Questions PDF Author: Various Authors
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 0143772384
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Book Description
New Zealand is at a crossroads. People are increasingly concerned about where we are headed. Can we improve our appalling statistics on poverty and violence? What about work - will we all be replaced by robots? Will our children (let alone our grandchildren) be able to afford to buy a house? Can we clean up our rivers? This book looks at many aspects of our lives and our nation. Experts in their fields write about the challenges that face us and the opportunities we have to make changes for the better. A fascinating set of perspectives and ideas on our way of life and our future as a nation. Writers are: Dame Anne Salmond, Judge Andrew Becroft; Rod Oram; Jacinta Ruru; Felicity Goodyear-Smith; Tim Watkin; Derek Handley; Jarrod Gilbert; Stuart McNaughton; David Brougham and Jarrod Haar; Golriz Ghahraman; Theresa Gattung; Peter O'Connor; and Leonie Freeman.

Landscape in Language

Landscape in Language PDF Author: David M. Mark
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027202869
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 465

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Book Description
This volume focuses on how landscape is represented in language and thought and what this reveals about the relationships of people to place and to land. -- Back cover.

Maps and History

Maps and History PDF Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300086935
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Book Description
Explores the role, development, and nature of the atlas and discusses its impact on the presentation of the past.

Weeping Waters

Weeping Waters PDF Author: Malcolm Mulholland
Publisher: Huia Publishers
ISBN: 1775503380
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Book Description
Weeping Waters is a must read for anyone who wants to be informed about the current debate regarding the Treaty of Waitangi and a constitution for Aotearoa New Zealand. The book features essays from eighteen well-known and respected Maori figures including Professor Margaret Mutu, Bishop Muru Walters, Judge Caren Fox and lawyer Moana Jackson. This is the first book in recent years to offer a M?ori opinion on the subject of constitutional change. It shows how M?ori views have been ignored by successive governments and the courts and how M?ori have attempted to address constitutional issues in the past. The book also provides suggestions for a pathway forward if the Treaty of Waitangi is to be fully acknowledged as the foundation for a constitution for Aotearoa New Zealand.

The Venice Biennale and the Asia-Pacific in the Global Art World

The Venice Biennale and the Asia-Pacific in the Global Art World PDF Author: Stephen Naylor
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351062085
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 185

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Book Description
This monograph uses the national pavilions of the Venice Biennale as a vehicle to examine the development of international contemporary art trends within the Asia-Pacific region, including Australia, Japan and Korea and 16 additional national entities who have had less continuous participation in this global art event. Analysing both the spatial and visual representation of contemporary art presented at the Venice Biennale and incorporating the politics behind national selections, this monograph provides insights into a range of important elements of the global art industry. Areas analysed include national cultural trends and strategies, the inversion of the peripheral to the centre stage of the Biennale, geopolitics in gaining exhibition space at the Venice Biennale, curatorial practices for contemporary art presentation and artistic trends that seek to deal with major economic, cultural, religious and environmental issues emerging from non-European art centres. This monograph will be of interest to scholars in art history, museum studies and Asia-Pacific cultural history.

Tauira

Tauira PDF Author: Joan Metge
Publisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1869408225
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Book Description
In te reo Maori, tauira means both student and teacher, and this book by acclaimed educator and anthropologist Joan Metge shows that Maori educational practices had a particular form and philosophy. Maori focused on learning by doing, teaching in context, learning in a group, memorizing, and advancement when ready. Parents, grandparents, and community leaders imparted cultural knowledge as well as practical skills to the younger generation through daily life and storytelling, in whanau and community activities. In preserving this evidence and these voices from the past, this important book also offers much inspiration for the future.

Boundary Markers

Boundary Markers PDF Author: Giselle Byrnes
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
ISBN: 1927131103
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Book Description
In a country where land disputes were the chief cause of conflict between the coloniser and the colonised, surveying could never be a neutral, depoliticised pastime. In a groundbreaking piece of scholarship, Giselle Byrnes examines the way surveyors became figuratively and literally ‘the cutting edge of colonisation’. Clearing New Zealand’s vast forests, laying out town plans and deciding on place names, they were at every moment asserting British power. Boundary Markers also shows how the surveyors’ ‘commercial gaze’, a view of the countryside coloured by the desire for profit, put them at odds with the Māori view of land.

Quantification

Quantification PDF Author: Lisa Matthewson
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 0080453503
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 499

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Book Description
This volume presents articles by formal linguists on quantification in (relatively) understudied languages. The ten contributions provide analysis of quantificational phenomena in languages from nine different families: Eskimo-Aleut, Algonquian, Na-Dene, Austronesian, Basque, Quechua, Otomanguean, Bantu, and Chadic. Approximately half of the papers present systematic overviews of quantificational phenomena in the respective languages; the remainder of the papers present theoretical analyses of specific quantificational constructions. The cross-linguistic focus of this volume enables standard theories of quantification to be challenged by languages other than those for which they were originally designed. The volume as a whole also uncovers a number of cross-linguistically common properties in the realm of quantification. The research presented here forms part of a growing trend towards formal study of understudied languages. This is a process which will ultimately lead us to a greatly enriched understanding of the universal human language faculty. The authors are all experts on their respective languages, most with many years field experience. All the authors have theoretical expertise in the area of quantification. This book will be of interest to semanticists and syntacticians working on quantification, to specialists in the languages discussed, and to semantic and syntactic fieldworkers. * This volume presents articles on quantification in (relatively) understudied languages * The authors are all experts on their respective languages