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Invaluable taonga, Paul Wolffram
Nga Moteatea: The Songs, Part 4: Collected by Apirana Ngata, translated by Hirini Moko Mead Jenifer Curnow and Jane McRae (eds) Auckland University Press, $22.50, ISBN 9781869403867 This is the final instalment in the series of Nga Moteatea: The Songs,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2008, Hirini Moko Mead, Issue 81, Jane McRae, Jenifer Curnow, Paul Wolffram
Posted in Māori, Music, Non-fiction
Posted in Māori, Music, Non-fiction
Winged words, Jane McRae
Nga Pepeha a nga Tipuna: The Sayings of the Ancestors ed Hirini Moko Mead and Neil Grove Victoria University Press, $59.95, ISBN 0864733992 Maori sayings are “ready bits of loftiness and sonority”, to use George Steiner’s apt characterisation of formulaic…
Tagged with: Hirini Moko Mead, Issue 52, Neil Grove, Summer 2002, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Language, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Language, Māori, Non-fiction, Review