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Author : F. Allan Hanson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780710095466
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (954 download)
Download or read book Counterpoint in Maori Culture written by F. Allan Hanson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laird Scranton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620557061
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Decoding Maori Cosmology written by Laird Scranton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of New Zealand’s Maori cosmology and how it relates to classic ancient symbolic traditions around the world • Shows how Maori myths, symbols, cosmological concepts, and words reflect symbolic elements found at Göbekli Tepe in Turkey • Demonstrates parallels between the Maori cosmological tradition and those of ancient Egypt, China, India, Scotland, and the Dogon of Mali in Africa • Explores the pygmy tradition associated with Maori cosmology, which shares elements of the Little People mythology of Ireland, including matching mound structures and common folk traditions It is generally accepted that the Maori people arrived in New Zealand quite recently, sometime after 1200 AD. However, new evidence suggests that their culture is most likely centuries older with roots that can be traced back to the archaic Göbekli Tepe site in Turkey, built around 10,000 BC. Extending his global cosmology comparisons to New Zealand, Laird Scranton shows how the same cosmological concepts and linguistic roots that began at Göbekli Tepe are also evident in Maori culture and language. These are the same elements that underlie Dogon, ancient Egyptian, and ancient Chinese cosmologies as well as the Sakti Cult of India (a precursor to Vedic, Buddhist, and Hindu traditions) and the Neolithic culture of Orkney Island in northern Scotland. While the cultural and linguistic roots of the Maori are distinctly Polynesian, the author shows how the cosmology in New Zealand was sheltered from outside influences and likely reflects ancient sources better than other Polynesian cultures. In addition to shared creation concepts, he details a multitude of strikingly similar word pronunciations and meanings, shared by Maori language and the Dogon and Egyptian languages, as well as likely connections to various Biblical terms and traditions. He discusses the Maori use of standing stones to denote spiritual spaces and sanctuaries and how their esoteric mystery schools are housed in structures architecturally similar to those commonly found in Ireland. He discusses the symbolism of the Seven Mythic Canoes of the Maori and uncovers symbolic aspects of the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha in Maori cosmology. The author also explores the outwardly similar pygmy traditions of Ireland and New Zealand, characterized by matching fairy mound constructions and mythic references in both regions. He reveals how the trail of a group of Little People who vanished from Orkney Island in ancient times might be traced first to Scotland, Ireland, and England and then on to New Zealand, accompanied by signature elements of the global cosmology first seen at Gobekli Tepe.
Author : Georgina Stewart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350101680
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Maori Philosophy written by Georgina Stewart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the symbolic systems and worldviews of the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa, New Zealand, this book is a concise introduction to Maori philosophy. It addresses core philosophical issues including Maori notions of the self, the world, epistemology, the form in which Maori philosophy is conveyed, and whether or not Maori philosophy has a teleological agenda. Introducing students to key texts, thinkers and themes, the book includes: - A Maori-to-English glossary and an index - Accessible interpretations of primary source material - Teaching notes, and reflections on how the studied material engages with contemporary debates - End-of-chapter discussion questions that can be used in teaching - Comprehensive bibliographies and guided suggestions for further reading. Maori Philosophy is an ideal text for students studying World Philosophies, or anyone who wishes to use Indigenous philosophies or methodologies in their own research and scholarship.
Author : Gregory Paschalidis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443879355
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Semiotics and Hermeneutics of the Everyday written by Gregory Paschalidis and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The linchpin of the momentous paradigm shift that produced the new hermeneutics of everyday life was a focus on people as active agents in various cultural contexts, uses and practices, the merging of the conventional distinctions between the private and the public, the local and the global, the material and the symbolic, and the bridging of the agency/structure divide marking grand historical and cultural narratives. In their place, a wealth of new kinds of narratives were produced out what ...
Author : Valerie Alia
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748626301
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Media and Ethnic Minorities written by Valerie Alia and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses cross-cultural representations of ethnic minority peoples by dominant society 'outsiders' and indigenous self-representation in the context of the 'New Media Nation'. In doing so, it explores the role of language, culture, identity and media in liberation struggles and the emergence of new political entities, and opens up issues of colonial oppression to public debate. It is intended to help inform policy in a variety of settings. Grounded in current perspectives on diaspora and homeland and drawing on Alia's work on minorities, media and identity as well as Bull's work on Maori socio-cultural issues and criminalisation of minorities, this volume offers a comparative, international perspective on the experiences of a broad range of ethnic minority peoples. These include Inuit and First Nations people in Canada; Native Americans and African Americans in the United States; Sami in northern Europe; Maori in New Zealand; Aboriginal people in Australia and Roma in Ireland and Britain.
Author : Garry Trompf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108605540
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Violence in Pacific Islander Traditional Religions written by Garry Trompf and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Element on the role of violence in the traditional religions of the Pacific Ilands (Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia) and on violent activity in islander religious life after the opening of Oceania to the modern world. This work covers such issues as tribal warfare, sorcery and witchcraft, traditional punishment and gender imbalance. and moves on to consider reprisals against foreign intruders in the Pacific and the continuation of old types of violence in spite of massive socio-religious change.
Author : Deryck Scarr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136837892
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book A History of the Pacific Islands written by Deryck Scarr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about the past and present Pacific Islands, wide-ranging in time and space spanning the centuries from the first settlement of the islands until the present day.
Author : Tony Ballantyne
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822375885
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Entanglements of Empire written by Tony Ballantyne and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-14 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Protestant mission was established in New Zealand in 1814, initiating complex political, cultural, and economic entanglements with Māori. Tony Ballantyne shows how interest in missionary Christianity among influential Māori chiefs had far-reaching consequences for both groups. Deftly reconstructing cross-cultural translations and struggles over such concepts and practices as civilization, work, time and space, and gender, he identifies the physical body as the most contentious site of cultural engagement, with Māori and missionaries struggling over hygiene, tattooing, clothing, and sexual morality. Entanglements of Empire is particularly concerned with how, as a result of their encounters in the classroom, chapel, kitchen, and farmyard, Māori and the English mutually influenced each other’s worldviews. Concluding in 1840 with New Zealand’s formal colonization, this book offers an important contribution to debates over religion and empire.
Author : Barton Hacker
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047402103
Total Pages : 847 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book World Military History Bibliography written by Barton Hacker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 847 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preclassical and indigenous nonwestern military institutions and methods of warfare are the chief subjects of this annotated bibliography of work published 1967–1997. Classical antiquity, post-Roman Europe, and the westernized armed forces of the 20th century, although covered, receive less systematic attention. Emphasis is on historical studies of military organization and the relationships between military and other social institutions, rather than wars and battles. Especially rich in references to the periodical literature, the bibliography is divided into eight parts: (1) general and comparative topics; (2) the ancient world; (3) Eurasia since antiquity; (4) sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania; (5) pre-Columbian America; (6) postcontact America; (7) the contemporary nonwestern world; and (8) philosophical, social scientific, natural scientific, and other works not primarily historical.
Author : Steven Webster
Publisher : Otago University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Patrons of Maori Culture written by Steven Webster and published by Otago University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These essays form an anthropological study of contemporary Māori culture. The title invokes the wider arena of power, inequality and patronage in which every culture can be understood. ... The Māori Renaissance of the past two decades is considered. The author examines a key paradox underlying the Renaissance- the flowering of Māori culture and influence in the wider society has been matched by social deterioation by most Māori. With reference to the university in society, [the auhtor] asks whether the increasing enrolment, employment and cultural prominence of Māori might be as much a part of the nationalist capitalist 'restructuring' of the market economy as it is a renaissance of Māori culture. This is a challenging set of essays which questions many of the assumptions upon which our present understanding of New Zealand society rest."--Back cover.
Author : Paul Moon
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1742287050
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (422 download)
Download or read book This Horrid Practice written by Paul Moon and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Though stronger evidence of this horrid practice prevailing among the inhabitants of this coast will scarcely be required, we have still stronger to give.' - Captain James Cook This Horrid Practice uncovers an unexplored taboo of New Zealand history - the widespread practice of cannibalism in pre-European Maori society. Until now, many historians have tried to avoid it and many Maori have considered it a subject best kept quiet about in public. Paul Moon brings together an impressive array of sources from a variety of disciplines to produce this frequently contentious but always stimulating exploration of how and why Maori ate other human beings, and why the practice shuddered to a halt just a few decades after the arrival of Europeans in New Zealand. The book includes a comprehensive survey of cannibalism practices among traditional Maori, carefully assessing the evidence and concluding it was widespread. Other chapters look at how explorers and missionaries saw the practice; the role of missionaries and Christianity in its end; and, in the final chapter, why there has been so much denial on the subject and why some academics still deny that it ever happened. This Horrid Practice promises to be one of the leading works of New Zealand history published in 2008. It is a highly original work that every New Zealand history enthusiast will want to own and read.
Author : Julie Y. Chu
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822348063
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Cosmologies of Credit written by Julie Y. Chu and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnographic account of the logics and regimes of value propelling desires for transnational mobility—largely via human smuggling networks—throughout Fuzhou, China.
Author : Jean E. Rosenfeld
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271041595
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Island Broken in Two Halves written by Jean E. Rosenfeld and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan de Vries
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780570392
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Life Without Arthritis written by Jan de Vries and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Life Without Arthritis, Jan de Vries shows how the dietry management of the Maori people is the major source of their continued good health - and that it is a diet now widely available in Western society. He shares the treasures of the Maoris and explains how, by following their example, there can be life without arthritis or rheumatism.
Author : Richard Fardon
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 144626601X
Total Pages : 1186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)
Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology written by Richard Fardon and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In two volumes, the SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology provides the definitive overview of contemporary research in the discipline. It explains the what, where, and how of current and anticipated work in Social Anthropology. With 80 authors, contributing more than 60 chapters, this is the most comprehensive and up-to-date statement of research in Social Anthropology available and the essential point of departure for future projects. The Handbook is divided into four sections: -Part I: Interfaces examines Social Anthropology′s disciplinary connections, from Art and Literature to Politics and Economics, from Linguistics to Biomedicine, from History to Media Studies. -Part II: Places examines place, region, culture, and history, from regional, area studies to a globalized world -Part III: Methods examines issues of method; from archives to war zones, from development projects to art objects, and from ethics to comparison -Part IV: Futures anticipates anthropologies to come: in the Brain Sciences; in post-Development; in the Body and Health; and in new Technologies and Materialities Edited by the leading figures in social anthropology, the Handbook includes a substantive introduction by Richard Fardon, a think piece by Jean and John Comaroff, and a concluding last word on futures by Marilyn Strathern. The authors - each at the leading edge of the discipline - contribute in-depth chapters on both the foundational ideas and the latest research. Comprehensive and detailed, this magisterial Handbook overviews the last 25 years of the social anthropological imagination. It will speak to scholars in Social Anthropology and its many related disciplines.
Author : Robert Borofsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521396486
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (964 download)
Download or read book Making History written by Robert Borofsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making History begins with a puzzle. In 1976 the inhabitants of Pukapuka, a Polynesian island in the South Pacific, revived a traditional form of social organization that several authoritative Pukapukan informants claimed to have experienced previously in their youth. Yet five professional anthropologists, who conducted research on the island prior to 1976, do not mention it in any of their writings. Had the Pukapukans 'invented' a new tradition? Or had the anthropologists collectively erred in not recording an old one? In unraveling this puzzle, Robert Borofsky compares two different ways of 'making history', two different ways of constructing knowledge about the past. He examines the dynamic nature of Pukapukan knowledge focusing on how Pukapukans, in the process of learning and validating their traditions, continually change them. He also shows how anthropologists, in the process of writing about such traditions for Western audiences, often overstructure them, emphasizing uniformity at the expense of diversity, stasis at the expense of change. As well as being of interest for what it reveals about Pukapukan (and more generally Polynesian) culture, Making History helps clarify important strengths and limitations of the anthropological approach. It provides valuable insights into both the anthropological construction of knowledge and the nature of anthropological understanding.
Author : David McCan
Publisher : Huia Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781877266089
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Whatiwhatihoe written by David McCan and published by Huia Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whatiwhatihoe investigates a complex bundle of issues often referred to simply as a tribal "resource claim" but that really concern factors spanning the total social, political, and economic spectrum. Whatiwhatihoe tracks the origins and history of the Waikato raupatu claim, focusing particularly on the ways the claim has been handled.
