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Amiria

The Life Story of a Maori Woman

Author: Anne Salmond  

Life old and new through the eyes of a Maori elder.

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Life old and new through the eyes of a Maori elder.

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Life old and new through the eyes of a Maori elder.This is the story of Amiria s life and marriage as told to Anne Salmond. Amiria was born on the East Coast at Tuparoa late last century and her story begins with her childhood spent both in her grandmother's raupo hut and the magnificent Williams homestead Kaharau. It takes the reader through her schooldays, her taumau (arranged) marriage to Eruera Stirling, farming on 'The Coast' and latter days in Auckland, where the Stirlings lived as prominent elders until their deaths in 1983.

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About the Author

Anne Salmond is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. One of New Zealand's most prominent anthropologists and historians, Professor Salmond is the author of Hui- A Study of Maori Ceremonial Gatherings; Amiria- The Life Story of a Maori Woman; and Eruera- The Teachings of a Maori Elder (winner of a Wattie Book Award in 1981) which she co-wrote with Eruera Stirling.Among her other acclaimed works are 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; and Bligh- William Bligh in the South Seas (a finalist in the 2012 NZ Post Book Awards).She received the CBE for services to literature and the Maori people in 1988 and was made Dame Commander of the British Empire for services to New Zealand history in 1995. In 2009, she was elected as a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) for her excellence in scientific research.She lives in Devonport, Auckland.

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Group (NZ) | Penguin Books
Published
8th March 2005
Pages
208
ISBN
9780143020127

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CUSTOMER REVIEWS

14 Aug, 2021
Very happy to get a new republished book. I'd read this years ago, and it's an easy read about early days in AotearoaNew Zealand's colonial history, from the memories in Amiria's mind. A splendid personalized look into this period of time, well recorded by Anne Salmond.
By Elizabeth
08 Feb, 2019
Love it. A story from home.
By Richard
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