Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
This category deals with the Maori as they have written about themselves, or as they have been written about by scholars and storytellers. The latter is more numerous.
The Maori by James Cowan
$95.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
Secondhand. Wrappers with coloured image of Maori girl in the volcanic region. A series of paragraphs on different aspects of Maori life from a Pakeha's perspective.
Maoriland Adventures. Part III, James Stack at East Cape by A. H. Reed (ed.)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
Secondhand. Raupo series of school readers No. 16.
Maoriland Adventures. Part I, James Stack's Earliest Years by A. H. Reed (ed.)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
Secondhand. Raupo series of school readers No. 14.
Selected readings in Maori by Bruce Biggs, P. Hohepa, S.M. Mead
$32.50 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
Secondhand. Numerous examples Maori lore and traditions in English have been translated to Maori in this book to advise on and simplify the "double vowle" usage common in the native language, as well as the correct punctuation. The object of the book, to use words from Bruce Biggs' introduction, is to ...Show more
Some Modern Maoris by Ernest Beaglehole, Pearl Beaglehole
$55.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
Secondhand. Educational Research Series No. 25. Looks at Maori people who live in separate, yet connected, villages to Europeans and how this affects their way of life. Foreword by Te Rangi Hiroa (Peter H. Buck).
Maori Folk-Tales of the Port Hills (1954 Edition) by James Cowan
$20.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
Secondhand. First published in 1923, this booklet details some of the Maori tales of the Port Hills principally narrated by Hone Taare Tikao. "This interesting little book... is now presented in a modern form with illustrations specially drawn by Mr Russell Clark. The author's text is virtually unchan ...Show more
The Maori History and Legends of The Waitakere Ranges by John T. Diamond and Bruce W. Hayward, with illustrations by Melville Diamond
$135.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
Secondhand. Discusses the traditional Maori history and legends of the Waitakere Ranges including the origins of the Kawerau tribe. Also describes archaeological sites, pa sites, middens, cultivation sites, caves and rock sites and meanings of Maori place names described in book.
Customs and Habits of the New Zealanders 1838-42 by Father C. Servant
$37.50 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
Secondhand. "The rarity of an unprejudiced account of the manners and customs of the Maoris in the period of initial European contact emphasises the importance of Father Servant's manuscript, presented for the first time in its entirety. An honest and accurate observer, and with remarkably little Europ ...Show more
The Story of the Maori People by G. L. Pearce
$21.50 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
Secondhand. Well-written and easy to follow, this summary history of New Zealand's Maori people addresses their cultural aspects and how they influenced the progress of these people inside a British colony and dominion.
Polynesian Voyagers: The Māori as a Deep-sea Navigator, Explorer, and Colonizer by Elsdon Best
$45.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
Secondhand. Dominion Museum Monograph No. 5. Work by the foremost New Zealand Maori scholar Elsdon Best.
Maori: A Photographic and Social History by Michael King
$40.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
Secondhand. Renowned historian Michael King (1945-2004) presents a comprehensive and searching documentary of Maori culture and society, and Maori-Pakeha contact, conflict and co-operation. It presents new evidence on the origins of the Polynesian people, on how and when the ancestors of the Maori cam ...Show more