Hui: A Study Of Maori Ceremonial Gatherings
A Study of Maori Ceremonial Gatherings
$39.99
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
3 June 2009
Summary
The most comprehensive study of Maori hui - ceremonial gatherings, incorporating marae protocol, tangihanga (funerals), hurahanga kohatu (unveilings), birthdays and anniversaries, and tribal policy-making.
When Maori people gather for a hui, they have immediate access to an ancestral world which remains a living reality for as long as the hui lasts. Hui incorporate all Maori ceremonial gatherings: openings of new marae, tangihanga (funerals), hurahanga kohatu (unveilings), birthdays a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143203025 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143203029 |
| Author: | Anne Salmond |
| Publisher: | Penguin Group (NZ) |
| Imprint: | Raupo Publishing (NZ) Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 3 June 2009 |
| Weight: | 385g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 154mm x 235mm |
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Anne Salmond
Distinguished Professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. One of New Zealand’s most prominent anthropologists and historians.
Books
- Hui: A Study of Maori Ceremonial Gatherings
- Amiria: The Life Story of a Maori Woman
- Eruera: The Teachings of a Maori Elder (co-authored with Eruera Stirling, winner of a Wattie Book Award in 1981)
- Two Worlds: First Meetings between Maori and Europeans, 1642-1772
- Between Worlds: Early Exchanges between Maori and Europeans, 1773-1815 (winner of the Ernest Scott Prize in 1998)
- The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas (winner of the Montana Medal for Non-fiction in 2004)
- Aphrodite’s Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti
- Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas (a finalist in the 2012 NZ Post Book Awards)
Awards and Honours
- CBE for services to literature and the Maori people (1988)
- Dame Commander of the British Empire for services to New Zealand history (1995)
- Foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) for excellence in scientific research (2009)
Lives in Devonport, Auckland.
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