Nga Mahi

Nga Mahi

Author: Jason Hartley

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-08-31

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1483690342

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Ng Mahi - The things we need to do is the extraordinary true story of a criminologist who received a unique guidance on how to reduce teh flow of Maori inmates into New Zealand Prisons. Despite spending billions of dollars on a struggling criminal justice system and the construction of an unprecedented number of new prisons, there does not seem any other solution at hand that is curbing this disturbing trend. Jason leads us through his amazing journey, with an insight into an unseen world that confirms his belief that we are not alone; and the most concerned about the ever increasing Mori prison population are their own loving ancestors. Discover how Jason was led to translate a beautiful message from the past. A message that can surely make a difference to our struggling world. A message that will reside in your spirit and awaken your soul.


He Ara Uru Ora

He Ara Uru Ora

Author: Tākirirangi Smith

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 9780473467777

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Examines Māori "cultural knowledge" and traditional systems belief for healing and dealing with traumas in life on a personal level and within the community.


Imagining Religion

Imagining Religion

Author: Jonathan Z. Smith

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2024-07-31

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 0226841863

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With this influential book of essays, Jonathan Z. Smith has pointed the academic study of religion in a new theoretical direction, one neither theological nor willfully ideological. Making use of examples as apparently diverse and exotic as the Maori cults in nineteenth-century New Zealand and the events of Jonestown, Smith shows that religion must be construed as conventional, anthropological, historical, and as an exercise of imagination. In his analyses, religion emerges as the product of historically and geographically situated human ingenuity, cognition, and curiosity—simply put, as the result of human labor, one of the decisive but wholly ordinary ways human beings create the worlds in which they live and make sense of them. "These seven essays . . . display the critical intelligence, creativity, and sheer common sense that make Smith one of the most methodologically sophisticated and suggestive historians of religion writing today. . . . Smith scrutinizes the fundamental problems of taxonomy and comparison in religious studies, suggestively redescribes such basic categories as canon and ritual, and shows how frequently studied myths may more likely reflect situational incongruities than vaunted mimetic congruities. His final essay, on Jonestown, demonstrates the interpretive power of the historian of religion to render intelligible that in our own day which seems most bizarre."—Richard S. Sarason, Religious Studies Review


Key Concepts in Māori Culture

Key Concepts in Māori Culture

Author: Cleve Barlow

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 9780195582123

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Important concepts in Maori culture are defined and discussed in short essay-style definitions in both English and Maori. The traditional knowledge of the ware wananga (school of learning) is drawn upon, and modern usage of Maori language is also described.


Te aka

Te aka

Author: John Cornelius Moorfield

Publisher: Longman

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13:

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This dictionary and index comprises a selection of modern and everyday language that will be extremely useful for learners of the Maori language. It has a broader scope than traditional dictionaries, so as well as the words one would usually expect in a dictionary, it also includes; encyclopaedic entries designed to provide key information, explanations of key concepts central to Maori culture, comprehensive explanations for grammatical items, with examples of usage, idioms and colloquialisms with their meanings and examples.