Rere Atu,Taku Manu!: Discovering History,Language,and Politics in the Maori Language Newspapers,1842-1933
The result of a three-year research and translation project, these 12 essays on topics ranging from linguistics to politics provide valuable insight into the colonial experience of the indigenous people of New Zealand. Comprising some 35 publications produced between 1842 and the 1930s that played a major role in indigenous Maori communities for nearly 100 years, the newspapers are a substantial but scarcely tapped source of Maori and New Zealand history and a remarkable record of an...
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The result of a three-year research and translation project, these 12 essays on topics ranging from linguistics to politics provide valuable insight into the colonial experience of the indigenous people of New Zealand. Comprising some 35 publications produced between 1842 and the 1930s that played a major role in indigenous Maori communities for nearly 100 years, the newspapers are a substantial but scarcely tapped source of Maori and New Zealand history and a remarkable record of an indigenous language in print in colonial times.Author Biography: Jenifer Curnow is a librarian, indexer, and researcher in the Maori Studies Department at the University of Auckland. Ngapare Hopa is head of the Maori Studies Department at the University of Auckland. She is the author of The Anthropologist as Tribal Advocate. Jane McRae, a lecturer in the Maori Studies Department at the University of Auckland, has published the results of a number of research projects on Maori literature, language, and history commissioned by the New Zealand Department of Maori Affairs.
Newspaper AbbreviationsIntroduction1Maori Print Culture: The Newspapers12A Brief History of Maori-Language Newspapers173'E manu, tena koe!' 'O bird, greetings to you': The Oral Tradition in Newspaper Writing424Loanwords Used in Maori-Language Newspapers605Kiri Ma, Kiri Mangu: The Terminology of Race and Civilisation in the Mid-Nineteeth-Century Maori-Language Newspapers786Church and Identity in the Wesleyan Newspaper987Poetry in Te Waka Maori1158Kupu Pai, Kupu Kino: Good and Bad Words in Maori Political Writing1349Parliamentary Representation for Maori: Debate and Ideology in Te Wananga and Te Waka Maori o Niu Tirani, 1874-815310Inculcating Habits of Industry: Pakeha Prescriptions for Work and the Capitalist Ethic in Te Korimako17411The Tribal Society of the Wairarapa Newspapers19312Delivering the Maori-Language Newspapers on the Internet211List of Contributors233Index237
