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Walking in more than one world, Paula Morris

Posted on December 7, 2016 by NZ Books

Being Chinese Helene Wong Bridget Williams Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780947492380 Going Places: Migration, Economics and the Future of New Zealand Julie Fry and Hayden Glass BWB Texts, $15.00, ISBN 9780947492694 The First Migration: Maori Origins 3000 BC – AD 1450…

Tagged with: Atholl Anderson, Bridget Williams Books, BWB Texts, Hayden Glass, Helene Wong, Huia, Issue 116, Julie Fry, Linitā Manu’atu, Marilyn McPherson, Mere Kēpa, Paula Morris, Summer 2016
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology

Tangata ora, Matariki Williams

Posted on August 31, 2015 by NZ Books

Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney and Aroha Harris Bridget Williams Books, $100.00, ISBN 9781927131411 The final chapter of the weighty Tangata Whenua is titled “Tangata Whenua, Tangata Ora”, and the book could just as easily have…

Tagged with: Aroha Harris, Atholl Anderson, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 111, Judith Binney, Spring 2015
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review

Refusing to come quietly, Nepia Mahuika

Posted on June 1, 2009 by NZ Books

Ngai Tahu: A Migration History – The Carrington Text Rawiri Te Maire Tau and Atholl Anderson (eds) Bridget Williams Books with Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu, $69.99, ISBN 9781877242397 The Beating Heart: A Political and Socio-economic History of Te Arawa …

Tagged with: Atholl Anderson, Bridget Williams Books, David Armstrong, Huia, Issue 86, Nepia Mahuika, Rawiri Te Maire Tau, Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu, Vincent O’Malley, Winter 2009
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review

The thrill of discovery, Christine Tremewan

Posted on August 27, 1994 by NZ Books

Traditional Lifeways of the Southern Maori, by James Herries Beattie Atholl Anderson (ed) University of Otago Press in association with Otago Museum, $59.95 The South Island has not been as fortunate as the North with tribal histories. The slim…

Tagged with: Atholl Anderson, Christine Tremewan, Issue 14, James Herries Beattie, Otago Museum, University of Otago Press, Winter 1994
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review