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Author: Andrzej Rozwadowski
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2021-06-17
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 1789698472
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a fresh perspective on rock art by considering how ancient images function in the present. It focuses on how ancient heritage is recognized and reified in the modern world, and how rock art stimulates contemporary processes of cultural identity-making.
Author: Courtney Sina Meredith
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780992264895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTail of the Taniwha is a collection of short stories by writer, poet and playwright Courtney Sina Meredith that builds on the themes and ideas of her signature publications, Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick and the award-winning play, Rushing Dolls. Tail of the Taniwha pushes at the boundaries of written storytelling through its use of typography as a narrative device. The end result is an idiosyncratic collection of stories that come alive in the way the reader interacts with the page. Tail of the Taniwha advances, with an underlying Pacific politique, an ongoing discussion of the contemporary urban experience and what it means to be culturally sensitive in contrast of the general understandings of mainstream society.
Author: Hilary Mitchell
Publisher: Huia Publishers
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9781869690878
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Volume One, Te Tangata me te Whenua - the people and the land, encompasses myths and legends of the region, the succession of tribes who have inhabited Te Tau Ihu o te Waka and their interactions, early encounters with Europeans, the arrival of the New Zealand Company, the Treaty of Waitangi, land transactions, and the administration of Maori Resserves." - p. 16.
Author: Owen Marshall
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Published: 2014-10-31
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1775531910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat happens when an ordinary man becomes a messiah? A witty, prescient and eloquent satire by one of New Zealand’s finest writers. Far into the twenty-first century, Albous Slaven's life is spectacularly and irrevocably altered after he hangs for an instant from a power line. While recuperating, he senses a new-found gift; the gift of oratory. Driven to hold rallies throughout New Zealand, Slaven astounds and alarms the ruling politicians. He too is astounded and often bemused by the response of the tens of thousands who flock to hear him. But what is his message? Is he a Messiah, a political saviour, or an idealist who conjures up forces he can neither understand nor control? Shortlisted for the Montana Book Award for Fiction and described by Vincent O'Sullivan as `Delightfully sardonic; philosophically mischievous', this novel deftly and disconcertingly explores its characters' lives in this lyrical picture of New Zealand.
Author: Polynesian Society (N.Z.)
Publisher:
Published: 1919
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKVols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.
Author: Veronica Strang
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2023-04-19
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1789147506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooking to the vast human history of water worship, a crucial study of our broken relationship with all things aquatic—and how we might mend it. Early human relationships with water were expressed through beliefs in serpentine aquatic deities: rainbow-colored, feathered or horned serpents, giant anacondas, and dragons. Representing the powers of water, these beings were bringers of life and sustenance, world creators, ancestors, guardian spirits, and lawmakers. Worshipped and appeased, they embodied people’s respect for water and its vital role in sustaining all living things. Yet today, though we still recognize that “water is life,” fresh- and saltwater ecosystems have been critically compromised by human activities. This major study of water beings and what has happened to them in different cultural and historical contexts demonstrates how and why some—but not all—societies have moved from worshipping water to wreaking havoc upon it and asks what we can do to turn the tide.
Author: Thomas William Downes
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 366
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Helminthological Society of Washington
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 816
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hirini Moko Mead
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Published: 2004-04
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780864734624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollection of Maori proverbs with translations and explanations.
Author: Matt Larkin
Publisher: Incandescent Phoenix Books
Published: 2019-03-08
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 1946686409
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCross the Worldsea in this FREE epic Polynesian mythology series starter in the Eschaton Cycle historical fantasy universe. She controls the seas. Her sister controls the flames. Together, they rule as god-queens over their Polynesian island paradise. No mortal army can stand against their power. Power, matched only by their pride. But when civil war erupts between them, there may soon be no kingdom left to rule. Namaka turns the fury of the sea on her sister, wreaking untold devastation on the land and under the sea, earning the ire of the mer kingdoms. Their answer: turn Namaka into one of them. Possessed by a mermaid spirit, she is drawn into battles in their alien world. Tides of Mana is the first novel of the Heirs of Mana series. It begins an epic melding Polynesian myths, Pacific Islander folklore, and dark fantasy in a world of endless ocean. For fans of Sarah Chorn, M.L. Wang, and ML Spencer, this is a dark mythological retelling filled with gods and monsters from the Oceanic world. This series serves as a prequel to Gods of the Ragnarok Era.
