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A book that examines key aspects of Maori language and culture authored by two of the country's pre-eminent kaumatua. The authors discuss key cultural concepts (including mana, tapu, wairua, whakapapa, ritual, farewell speeches and Maori humour) as well as language and cultural issues of the modern world.

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From 1840 to 1852, the Crown Colony period, the British attempted to impose their own law on New Zealand. In theory Maori, as subjects of the Queen, were to be ruled by British law. But in fact, outside the small, isolated, British settlements, most Maori and many settlers lived according to tikanga. How then were Maori to be brought under British law? Influenced by the idea of exceptional laws that was circulating in the Empire, the colonial ...

Introduces readers to the distinctive oral style and language of the traditional compositions, acknowledges the skills of the composers of old and explores the meaning of their striking imagery and figurative language. And it shows how ng? k?rero tuku iho - the inherited words - can be a deep well of knowledge about the way of life, wisdom and thinking of the M?ori ancestors.

An essential text for anyone studying Polynesian music and culture or Maori, Pacific Island, or New Zealand history, this final volume of the redesigned edition of the classic study of Maori music contains new translations of traditional Maori songs--the waiata. Study of the waiata is enhanced by the included recordings of the songs performed by traditional Maori singers.

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This introduction to New Zealand art features the work of 45 contemporary artists from the past 30 years. The past and future direction of New Zealand art is presented in a wide and fascinating survey of this nation's art.

This account of an ethnomusicologist's experience conducting fieldwork offers a glimpse into the life of New Zealand's Maori people through his documentation of traditional songs. The audio recordings included span 1958 through 1979, a time when many of the culture's traditions were fading. Sensitive writing and attention to the challenges of anthropological fieldwork shed light on postcolonialism in New Zealand and its effects on Maori and Po...

Bob Orr has published five solo collections of poems previously. His is a pure lyric impulse, somewhat like Sam Hunt's. The strength of the poems in this collection is their particularity, their feeling and their feel for form and the shape of a line.

The Devil's Henchmen throwing Molotov cocktails at the Epitaph Riders in Christchurch's first gang war. Prime Minister Rob Muldoon surrounded by Black Power members at the Royal Tiger Tavern in Wellington. The Magogs and the Mothers, PEP schemes and P dealers, patches and ridgies, colours and class: for five decades gangs have had a massive impact on New Zealand life. Based on ten years of research among gangs, Patched is the first major histo...

These powerful poems explore the effect of a life-threatening condition by way of the landscapes of the natural world, charting the hardest things in beautiful language. This impressive collection examines basic human truths with clarity and force and will open out painful, rewarding vistas for its readers.

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In 1984, New Zealand's Labour Government's anti-nuclear policy collided with a US foreign policy based on nuclear deterrence. After three years of ship visits denied, angry meetings, fraught diplomacy and press conferences, the stand-off led to the unravelling of the ANZUS military alliance. Based on previously classified government records in Britain, New Zealand, Australia and the US, interviews with key protagonists, and the author's own in...

Here the dual, duelling lifeguards of east and west, sunrise and sunset, glib Narcissus and one-eyed Polyphemus, watch over a collection that explores the contradictions between life's slick surfaces and deepest questions. Bringing together work from the past four years by one of New Zealand's outstanding contemporary poets, The Lifeguard shows Ian Wedde at his thoughtful, surprising best.