Through Shaded Glass - Women and Photography in Aotearoa New Zealand 1860 -1960 by Lissa Mitchell
75.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
The contribution of women to the first century of photography has been overlooked across the world, including in New Zealand. With few exceptions, photographic histories have tended to focus on the male maker. This important book tilts the balance, unearthing a large and hitherto unknown number of women ...Show more
Te Motunui Epa by Rachel Buchanan
50.00 NZD
Category: Māori Culture and NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
‘This is a story about the power of art to help us find a way through the darkness. It is about how art can bring out the best in us, and the worst. The artworks in question are five wooden panels carved in the late 1700s by relatives in Taranaki.’ This stunning book examines how five interconnected car ...Show more
He Reo Tuku Iho - Tangata Whenua and Te Reo Maori by Awanui Te Huia
30.00 NZD
Category: Māori Culture and NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
Reclaiming a language is a slow-burning process, both deeply personal and intricately connected to the socio-economic, historical and political conditions in which we live. In He Reo Tuku Iho: Tangata Whenua and Te Reo Māori, Awanui Te Huia focuses on the lived experiences of tangata whenua and explores ...Show more
A History of New Zealand in 100 Objects by Jock Phillips
55.00 NZD
Category: Māori Culture and NZ History | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand history through a new lens - 100 objects offer 100 entry points into the powerful, captivating stories of our shared past. Authored by award-winning historian Jock Phillips, The History of New Zealand in 100 Objects is gripping, inclusive, often revelatory and deeply human. A colourful and c ...Show more
Wawata - Moon Dreaming by Hinemoa Elder
30.00 NZD
Category: Māori Culture and NZ History
Hina, the Maori moon goddess, has 30 different faces to help illuminate life's lessons - a different face and a different energy for each day of the month. And with her changing light, new insights are revealed. This book gives us the chance to connect to the ancient wisdom of the old people, who reach ...Show more
Towards a Grammar of Race In Aotearoa New Zealand by Anisha Sankar (ed.); Lana Lopesi (ed.); Arcia Tecun (ed.)
40.00 NZD
Category: Māori Culture and NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
A search for new ways to talk about race in Aotearoa New Zealand brought together this powerful group of scholars, writers and activists. For these authors, attempts to confront racism and racial violence often stall against a failure to see how power works through race, across our modern social worlds. ...Show more
He Atua, He Tangata: The World of Maori Mythology by A.W. Reed
65.00 NZD
Category: Māori Culture and NZ History
In this updated edition of the Reed Book of Māori Mythology, esteemed editor Ross Calman comprehensively revises the core stories of gods (atua) and people (tangata) and the many other beings that sit on the continuum between the two. Divided into themes, this elegantly produced volume starts with tradi ...Show more
NUKU: Stories of 100 Indigenous Women by Qiane Matata-Sipu
65.00 NZD
Category: Māori Culture and NZ History
NUKU: Stories of 100 Indigenous Women is a powerful and important snapshot of Indigenous wāhine today. Through wide-ranging voices this ambitious social documentary showcases diverse representations of leadership, systems change and success. You will obtain authentic insight into life as an Indigenous ...Show more
Tangata Ngai Tahu / People of Ngai Tahu: Volume Two by Helen Brown & Michael Stevens
50.00 NZD
Category: Māori Culture and NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
Tāngata Ngāi Tahu, Volume Two remembers and celebrates the rich and diverse lives of the people of Ngāi Tahu. Spanning time, geography and kaupapa, some fifty biographies bring Ngāi Tahu history into the present. The people in the book have contributed to their iwi, hapū and whānau in myriad ways: here ...Show more
He Kupu Taurangi: Treaty Settlements and the Future of Aotearoa New Zealand by Christopher Finlayson
60.00 NZD
Category: Māori Culture and NZ History
As Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations from 2008 to 2017, Christopher Finlayson completed an unprecedented number of settlements with iwi. In 2012 alone, Parliament passed more Treaty legislation than it had over the previous twenty years. Christopher Finlayson gained unique insight into the el ...Show more
Voices from the New Zealand Wars | He Reo nō ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa by Vincent O'Malley
50.00 NZD
Category: Māori Culture and NZ History
'Welcome to our story, this history. Wherever in the world the bones of your ancestors lie, wherever their ashes may have been dispersed, here you will find traces of them, and of yourself... It is, of course, a story of colonisation and resistance - and a history that has never stopped repeating.' The ...Show more
Kia Kaha: A Storybook of Maori Who Changed the World by Stacey Morrison, Jeremy Sherlock
45.00 NZD
Category: Māori Culture and NZ History
A powerful illustrated storybook for the tamariki and rangatahi of Aotearoa New Zealand celebrating Maoritanga! KIA KAHA is a collection of true stories about amazing Maori who have achieved incredible things. Each of them blazed a trail in their own way, and this pukapuka was written to show that with ...Show more