Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
This category deals with the Maori as they have written about themselves, or as they have been written about by scholars and storytellers. The latter is more numerous.
Maori Peoples of New Zealand by Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
$42.50 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture | Reading Level: very good
The first publication to come out of the online Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand project tells the story of the Tangata Whenua of Aotearoa, from their journeys across the vast Pacific Ocean to the histories of all the major iwi, including the contemporary issues they face today. No other book brings t ...Show more
Hawaiki a new approach to Maori tradition (Signed) by Margaret Orbell
$55.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
Secondhand. An accessible work relating anthropological research on the Polynesian origins of Maori, how they voyaged to New Zealand, and the myths of their new home in Aotearoa. Includes myths of Hawaiki, whakapapa, Kupe etc.
When the Waves Rolled in Upon Us by Michael Reilly & Jane Thomson (Editors)
$32.50 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
Second hand. Essays in nineteenth-century Maori history. These essays by students of the University of Otago's History Department have the Maori history of the South Island - Te Wai Pounamu - as their focus. They provide accounts of prominent people and significant events within the larger context of M ...Show more
The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Maori Myth and Legend by Margaret Orbell
$85.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. The nineteenth-century writings of Maori authorities have left us a vast heritage of myths and legends. These speak of a thousand years' experience of Aotearoa, and also recall in their origins the first human explorations of the islands of Polynesia. Drawing upon this literature, Margaret ...Show more
The Maoris of New Zealand by Joan Metge
$37.50 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture | Reading Level: good
Second hand. An academic look at Maori society, 'factual enough for the serious student, but untechnical enough for the average reader'.
Outcasts of the Gods?: The Struggle Over Slavery in Maori New Zealand by Hazel Petrie
$95.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture | Reading Level: Very Good
Tracing ideas of freedom and unfreedom in Maori society, this book is the first history of Maori war captives. 'Us Maoris used to practise slavery just like them poor Negroes had to endure in America...' says Beth Heke in Once Were Warriors. 'Oh those evil colonials who destroyed Maori culture by ending ...Show more
Song of Waitaha: The Histories of a Nation by Barry Brailsford
$250.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
Te Arawa: A History of the Arawa People by D.M. Stafford
$150.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
Maori Dunedin by George Griffiths and Maarire Goodall
$35.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
Life and Times of Te Rauparaha by Tamihana Te Rauparaha; Peter Scott Butler
$35.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
Secondhand. "This is an account of the great Te Rauparaha from his infancy to his old age written by his son in case the facts be forgotten" [front cover]. -- Te Rauparaha was the greatest Maori leader. He was the major Maori fighting chief in the period from 1770 to 1849, the period when the pakeha f ...Show more
Te Kīngitanga: The People of the Māori King Movement by Angela Ballara (Introduction)
$39.99 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture | Series: Dictionary of NZ Biography Ser.
Since the mid-1800's Te Kingitanga has been a force in New Zealand society. The Maori King movement combines spiritual and political elements which conserve the "turangawaewae" (standpoints) of the past with practical leadership in the contemporary Maori world. This collection of 14 biographies of leade ...Show more
Dancing With the King - The rise and fall of the King Country 1864-1885 by Belgrave Michael
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ Land Wars | Reading Level: near fine
After the battle of Orakau in 1864 and the end of the war in the Waikato, Tawhiao, the second Maori King, and his supporters were forced into an armed isolation in the Rohe Potae, the King Country. For the next twenty years, the King Country operated as an independent state - a land governed by the Maor ...Show more