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December / January 2010
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Decolonising conservation : caring for Maori meeting houses outside New Zealand, Dean Sully, editor. (2007)This book argues for an important shift in cultural heritage conservation, away from a focus on maintaining the physical fabric of material culture toward the impact that conservation work has on people’s lives. ... To do so, the authors examine conservation activities at Maori marae located in the US, Germany, and England and contrasts them with changes in marae conservation in New Zealand. A key case study is the Hinemihi meeting house, transported to England in the 1890s where it was treated as a curiosity by visitors to Clandon Park for over a century, and more recently as a focal point of cultural activity for UK Maori communities.
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Maori fortifications, by Ian Knight ; illustrated by Adam Hook. (2009)
The Maori people of New Zealand were experienced field engineers and it was common practice to protect villages with surrounding entrenchments and wooden palisades, known as pās. However, it was not until 1845, with the first fighting between the Maori and the British, that it became clear just how strong and sophisticated the Maori fortifications were. For the best part of 20 years, the Maori held off the dominant and technologically superior British forces, by adapting and developing their defences in response to new British assaults..." (Drawn from back cover)
The prophet and the policeman : the story of Rua Kenana and John Cullen, by Mark Derby. (2009)
Trust : a true story of women & gangs by Pip Desmond. (2009)
Te Ropu Manawanui : tackling diabetes and other health concerns, by Te Ropu Manawanui & Frances Hancock. (2009)
Chapters in books
Looking flash : clothing in Aotearoa New Zealand, edited by Bronwyn Labrum, Fiona McKergow and Stephanie Gibson. (2007)
p. 12. He whatu Ariki, he kura, he waero : chiefly threads, red and white, by Patricia Te Arapo Wallace.
p. 94. Weaving a journey : the story of a unique cloak, by Awhina Tamarapa.
Journal Articles
Alternative : an international journal of indigenous peoples ; vol. 4, no. 2 (2008)
p. 20. Māori and educational leadership : Tū rangatira, by Dr Margie Kahukura Hohepa & Professor Viviane Robson.
p. 179. Ngā nekehanga o te whakahua I te reo Māori I roto I te rautau kua hipa nei, by Dr Peter Keegan, Dr Jeanette King, Dr Ray Harlow, Dr Margaret maclagan & Dr Catherine Wilson.
New Zealand annual review of education ; no. 18 (2008)
p. 5. Place-based education : catering for curriculum, culture and community, by Wally Penetito.
p. 159. Achieving equity for Māori children in reading by 2020, by Tom Nicholson.
Theses
Battista, Jon Lois. Me he korokoro komako “with the throat of a bellbird”] : a Mäori aesthetic in Mäori writing in English. Thesis - PhD (English) (AU), 2004.
Jenkins, Kuni E. H. Te ihi, te mana, te wehi o tea o tuhi : Mäori print literacy from 1814-1855 : literacy, power and colonisation. Thesis - MA (AU), 1991.
Keegan, Te Taka. Indegenous language usage in a digital library : he hautoa kia ora tonu ai. Thesis - PhD (HU), 2007.
McNaughton, Talia Oreti Pert McNaughton. Re-viewing identities : constructions of Mäori in New Zealand’s picture books. Thesis - MA (AU), 2004.
Paterson, Lachlan. Ngā reo o ngā niupepa : Māori language newspapers 1855-1863. Thesis - PhD (DU), 2004.
Pistacchi, Ann Katherine. Revealing what is within : Patricia Grace and the art of critical fiction in Baby No-Eyes. Thesis - MA (AU), 2003
Ponga, Maria. “I nga ra o mua” : (re)construction of symbolic layers in Te Poho-o-Hinemihi Marae. Thesis - MA (Geography) (AU), 1997.
Rollo, Te Manaaroha Pirihira. Kapa haka whakataetae : kua tīni haere te kanohi o te mahi kapa haka I tea o hurihuri nei. Thesis - MA (HU), 2007.
Ropiha, Joan. Traditional ecological knowledge of the maramataka – Māori lunar calendar. Thesis--MEnvironmental Studies, (VUW), 2000.
Taylor, Thomas Adam. Identity : four indigenous writers. Thesis—MA (English) (AU), 2001.
Te Wiata, Joy E. A local Aotearoa New Zealand investigation of the contribution of Māori cultural knowledges to pakeha identity and couonselling practices. Thesis - (MCounselling) (HU), 2006.
Van Waardenberg, Gerald Enno. Songs of Tai Tokerau : an analysis of 135 Northland songs. Thesis - MMusic (AU), 1983.
Williams, Ka Tataraina Kathleen. Kei hopu tou ringa ki te aka taepa, engari, kia mau ki te aka matua. Thesis - MEd (AU), 1999.
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