John Herries Beattie

Broschiertes Buch

Traditional Lifeways of the Southern Maori

Beschreibung

Beattie had a strong sense that traditional knowledge needed to be recorded fast. For twelve months, he interviewed people from Foveaux Strait to North Canterbury, and from Nelson and Westland. He also visited libraries to check information compiled by earlier researchers, spent time with Maori in Otago Museum recording southern names for fauna and artefacts, visited pa sites, and copied notebooks lent to him by informants. Finally he worked his findings up into the systematic notes, which eventually became manuscript 181 in the Hocken Collections, and now this book.

Autor

Journalist John Herries Beattie recorded southern Maori history for almost fifty years and produced many popular books and pamphlets. This is his single most important work, based on a major field project for the Otago Museum in 1920 and published here for the first time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Otago University Press
• 2nd Second Edition, Second edition
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 939g
• ISBN-13: 9780908569793
• ISBN-10: 0908569793
• Artikelnr.: 53166618