Māori Recent Picks

June / July 2009

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The double rainbow : James K. Baxter, Ngāti Hau and the Jerusalem commune , by John Newton. (2008)
In 1969, New Zealand’s best-known poet, James K. Baxter, moved to Jerusalem on the Whanganui River and established an intentional community under the mana of the local hapu, Ngati Hau. ...But what was life really like at Jerusalem, beyond the popular stereotypes? And what did it mean, for Ngati Hau, to be deluged with long-haired strangers and with the media attention which followed them?
Here, for the first time, events are reconstructed from the point of view of James K. Baxter’s followers and of the local people who accepted them. The story told in this book is unique: nowhere else has a Pakeha community submitted so comprehensively to the authority and generosity of a Maori one. (Drawn from Victoria University Press website)

Beneath the Maori moon : an illustrated history of Maori rugby, by Malcolm Mulholland. (2009)
In this book Malcolm Mulholland details the major matches of each decade, describes the developments in the game and profiles prominent players and administrators. This is the complete story of the New Zealand Māori rugby team, including analysis of the politics behind the side. A comprehensive array of unique photographs, memorabilia, cartoons and game and player statistics complement the text. The book culminates with a panel of well-known rugby personalities selecting the best Māori XV of all time. This is a must-have for all rugby fans.
(Drawn from Huia)

Wars without end, by Danny Keenan. (2009)
(Land wars in nineteenth century New Zealand)

Maori place names explained. Murdoch Riley ; introduction by Johan Bonnevie. (2008)

Māori music : a complete collection of Māori favourites , Viking Seven Seas NZ Ltd. (2008)

Māori children in early childhood : pilot study by the Education Review Office. (2008)

Ratana : the prophet, by Keith Newman. (2008)

Māwai Hakona of Upper Hutt, by Patricia Rainey ; in cooperation with the Mawai Hakona Committee . (2007)
Includes CD-ROM of the waiata of Jock McEwen, Dovey Katene-Horvath, Tamatai Kaiwai and Tua Delamere

Te Tatau o te po : history, 1933-2008 : 75th jubilee, by Joan Warren & Muri Parata. (2008)

Catalogue of McLean Collection recordings of traditional music of Aitutaki and Mangaia, Cook Islands, Sept.-Nov. 1967, edited by Mervyn McLean. (2008)

Whakapapa : an introduction to researching Māori and Pākehaā-Māori familes, their history, heritage, and culture, writers, Brenda Joyce, Bruce Mathers, and Owen Ormsby. (revised edition, 2008)

Chapters inside Books

Nurse to the imagination : 50 years of the Robert Burns Fellowship, edited by Lawrence Jones. (2008)
Contents include:
Hone Tuwhare [1969, 1974], Witi Ihimaera [1975], Keri Hulme [1977], Rawiri Paratene [1983], Renée [1989]

Contemporary New Zealand cinema : from new wave to blockbuster, edited by Ian Conrich and Stuart Murray. (2008)
Chap. 12. A waka on the wild side : nationalism and its discontents in some recent New Zealand films, by Mark Williams. pp 181-196.
Chap. 3. ‘He iwi kotahi tatou’? : nationalism and cultural identity in Māori film, by Michelle Keown. Pp. 197-210.

Wool to Weta : transforming New Zealand's culture and economy, by Paul Callaghan. (2009)
Chap. 5. Māori perspectives, by Craig Rofe, Ocean Mercier and Wayne Mulligan. P. 93-118

Journal Articles

New Zealand journal of educational studies : vol. 43, no. 1 (2008)
pp. 33-50. The gender-ethnic divide : mathematics and English progress of Päkehä, Māori and Pasifika students, by Therese Boustead and Rob Strathdee.

New Zealand geographer ; vol. 65, no. 1 (April 2009)
p. 48. Re-inscribing the urban project : Ngai Tahu and the gothic revival, by Howard McNaughton.

New Zealand law review ; pt 4, 2008
p. 639. Indigenous peoples and the Māori : the right to self-determination in international law – from woe to go, by Nin Tomas.

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