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Kimihia Te Mea Ngaro
Seek That Which Is Lost
AvBruce Grandison Biggs
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
279 kr
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This publication of the ""1992 Macmillan Brown Lectures"" by one of the founders of modern Oceanic descriptive and historical linguistics is a significant contribution to knowledge in several fields: Maori studies, comparative Oceanic and Polynesian linguistics, and systems of thought. It is also an exquisite example of the unique and wide-ranging scholarship of its author and the singular flavor of his expression.
History and Traditions of Rarotonga
AvTe Ariki Tara `Are,Richard Walterm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
450 kr
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History and Traditions of Rarotonga is the earliest known literary work in the Cook Island Mâori language. Its author, Te Ariki Tara ‘Are, was a pre-eminent scholar who recorded the historical traditions of his people in the mid-nineteenth century. This volume allows the historical and literary importance of the work to be appreciated.
War and Succession in Mangala
From Mamae's Texts
AvMichael P.J. Reilly
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
179 kr
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War and Succession in Mangala is a political history of an islands, in the southern Cook islands, from its social foundations until the advent of Christianity. In the 1820s as described by the nineteenth-century tribal historian Mamae. Mamae's original manuscripts are reproduced, along with translations, and a commentary discussing events surrounding chiefly battles for supreme power.
Ancestral Voices from Mangaia
A History of the Ancient Gods and Chiefs
AvMichael P.J. Reilly
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
437 kr
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An effective understanding of the history of Mangaia, the most southerly of the Cook Islands, requires a firm foundation in the language of the people. Based upon this insight, Ancestral Voices transcribes and interprets a series of indigenous historical texts, including proverbs, songs and narratives, as told by generations of Mangaian scholars, notably the tribal historian, Mamae, and by outsider scholars, particularly, the missionary William Wyatt Gill and the anthropologist Te Rangi Hiroa (Peter Buck).

Polynesian Society (Inc) – förlag

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Kimihia Te Mea Ngaro
Seek That Which Is Lost
AvBruce Grandison Biggs
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
279 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
This publication of the ""1992 Macmillan Brown Lectures"" by one of the founders of modern Oceanic descriptive and historical linguistics is a significant contribution to knowledge in several fields: Maori studies, comparative Oceanic and Polynesian linguistics, and systems of thought. It is also an exquisite example of the unique and wide-ranging scholarship of its author and the singular flavor of his expression.
History and Traditions of Rarotonga
AvTe Ariki Tara `Are,Richard Walterm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
450 kr
Tillfälligt slut
History and Traditions of Rarotonga is the earliest known literary work in the Cook Island Mâori language. Its author, Te Ariki Tara ‘Are, was a pre-eminent scholar who recorded the historical traditions of his people in the mid-nineteenth century. This volume allows the historical and literary importance of the work to be appreciated.
War and Succession in Mangala
From Mamae's Texts
AvMichael P.J. Reilly
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
179 kr
Tillfälligt slut
War and Succession in Mangala is a political history of an islands, in the southern Cook islands, from its social foundations until the advent of Christianity. In the 1820s as described by the nineteenth-century tribal historian Mamae. Mamae's original manuscripts are reproduced, along with translations, and a commentary discussing events surrounding chiefly battles for supreme power.
Ancestral Voices from Mangaia
A History of the Ancient Gods and Chiefs
AvMichael P.J. Reilly
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
437 kr
Tillfälligt slut
An effective understanding of the history of Mangaia, the most southerly of the Cook Islands, requires a firm foundation in the language of the people. Based upon this insight, Ancestral Voices transcribes and interprets a series of indigenous historical texts, including proverbs, songs and narratives, as told by generations of Mangaian scholars, notably the tribal historian, Mamae, and by outsider scholars, particularly, the missionary William Wyatt Gill and the anthropologist Te Rangi Hiroa (Peter Buck).

Polynesian Society (Inc) – förlag

Kimihia Te Mea Ngaro

History and Traditions of Rarotonga

War and Succession in Mangala

Ancestral Voices from Mangaia

Polynesian Society (Inc) – förlag

Kimihia Te Mea Ngaro

History and Traditions of Rarotonga

War and Succession in Mangala

Ancestral Voices from Mangaia