In this work, a pakeha Maori trader looks back to the good old times before Governors were invented, and law, and justice, and all that. It is a construction of Maori life and customs, most notibly of tapu (taboo). There is also a selection of Maning's unpublished letters.
In this work, a pakeha Maori trader looks back to the good old times before Governors were invented, and law, and justice, and all that. It is a const...
What actually happened as Europeans and peoples of the Pacific discovered each other? How have their respective senses of the past influenced their understanding of the present? And what are the consequences of their meeting?
In this collection of essays, scholars from European, Polynesian, and Settler backgrounds provide answers to these questions. Writing from, and between, a variety of disciplines (history, anthropology, Maori Studies, literary criticism, law, cultural studies, art history, Pacific Studies), they show how the Pacific reveals a more various and contradictory...
What actually happened as Europeans and peoples of the Pacific discovered each other? How have their respective senses of the past influenced their...
