The Rahui

Author : Tamatoa Bambridge
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781925022919

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The Rahui by Tamatoa Bambridge Pdf

This collection deals with an ancient institution in Eastern Polynesia called the rahui, a form of restricting access to resources and/or territories. While tapu had been extensively discussed in the scientific literature on Oceanian anthropology, the rahui is quite absent from secondary modern literature. This situation is all the more problematic because individual actors, societies, and states in the Pacific are readapting such concepts to their current needs, such as environment regulation or cultural legitimacy. This book assembles a comprehensive collection of current works on the rahui from a legal pluralism perspective. This study as a whole underlines the new assertion of identity that has flowed from the cultural dimension of the rahui. Today, rahui have become a means for indigenous communities to be fully recognised on a political level. Some indigenous communities choose to restore the rahui in order to preserve political control of their territory or, in some cases, to get it back. For the state, better control of the rahui represents a way of asserting its legitimacy and its sovereignty, in the face of this reassertion by indigenous communities.

Author : Sidney M. Mead,Hirini Moko Mead
Publisher : Huia Publishers
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1877283886

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Tikanga Māori by Sidney M. Mead,Hirini Moko Mead Pdf

'Relationships between and among people need to be managed and guarded by some rules'. Professor Hirini Moko Mead's comprehensive survey of tikanga Maori (Maori custom) is the most substantial of its kind every published. Ranging over topics from the everyday to the esoteric, it provides a breadth of perspectives and authoritative commentary on the principles and practice of tikanga Maori past and present.

Author : Sidney M. Mead
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0864733178

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Landmarks, Bridges and Visions by Sidney M. Mead Pdf

"This is a collection of words, ideas, opinions, theories, reactions and prescriptions for the future, written over a period of three decades"--Introd.

Author : Hirini Moko Mead
Publisher : Huia Publishers
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781775503200

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Tikanga Maori (Revised Edition) by Hirini Moko Mead Pdf

Tikanga Maori is the authoritative and accessible introduction to understanding the correct Maori ways of doing things as they were done in the past, as they are done in the present - and as they may yet be.In this revised edition, Hirini Mead has added an extensive new chapter on mana whenua, mana moana, Maori authority over land and ocean, and the different interpretations and applications of mana whenua and mana moana historically and today.Hirini Mead has also updated the section on tangihanga to include contemporary issues about cremation choices and what happens to the deceased in Maori/non-Maori partnerships where there are disputes about following tangi tikanga or Pakeha traditions.The remainder of the book explores how tikanga Maori may influence contemporary life and society, and Hirini Mead proposes guidelines to help us test appropriate responses to challenges that may yet be laid down.

Author : Ben R. Finney
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1412831512

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Polynesian Peasants and Proletarians by Ben R. Finney Pdf

Author : Ben R. Finney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351487146

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Tahiti by Ben R. Finney Pdf

The Polynesian island of Tahiti is in the imagination an island paradise, an idyllic world inhabited by noble savages, carefree and uncomplicated. Tahiti separates myth from reality. Finney describes and analyzes the forces of change that have confronted Tahiti and its inhabitants in the modern world. As the author notes in the introduction, "Neither isolation in the South Pacific, nor the romantic aura invested in them by philosophers and escapists of the West, has saved Tahitians from intense involvement in the twin processes of industrialization and urbanization." This study of Tahitian life concentrates upon two different communities. One is a peasant community moving from subsistence farming to an increased reliance upon the production of cash crops. The other is a proletarian community whose members were at the time abandoning farming and fishing in favor of wage labor. Finney compares the two contemporaneous communities, enabling him to define different but interrelated variables of the economic and social change. These are responsible for Tahiti's evolution from a subsistence oriented peasant life to a life based increasingly on cash crops and wage labor. What happens to family life, work patterns, land use, and other traditional modes of social organization when a small, underdeveloped society is confronted with economic forces largely beyond its control? In dealing with this question as it applies to Tahiti, Finney makes an important contribution to our understanding of how modernization affects a society once thought to be outside the boundaries of the modern world. A major study in English of the socio-economic forces at work in Tahiti, this book provides the reader with both an understanding of the changing nature of Tahitian life, and the reactions of Tahitians to such changes.

Author : Raymond Firth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136505362

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Primitive Economics of the New Zealand Maori (Routledge Revivals) by Raymond Firth Pdf

First published in 1929, Raymond Firth’s original and insightful study offers an incredibly detailed account of the social and economic organisation of the Maori people before their contact with Western civilisation. Bridging the gap between anthropology and economics, the work covers the class structure, land system, industry, methods of co-operative labour, exchange and distribution, and the psychological foundations of Maori society. This reissue will be welcomed by all students of anthropology and anyone interested the history of the Maori people.

Author : H. J. M. Claessen,Peter Skalník
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 9027979049

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The Early State by H. J. M. Claessen,Peter Skalník Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781496236715

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When Women Ruled the Pacific by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul D’Arcy,Daya Dakasi Da-Wei Kuan
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781760465629

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Islands of Hope by Paul D’Arcy,Daya Dakasi Da-Wei Kuan Pdf

In the Pacific, as elsewhere, indigenous communities live with the consequences of environmental mismanagement and over-exploitation but rarely benefit from the short-term economic profits such actions may generate within the global system. National and international policy frameworks ultimately rely on local community assent. Without effective local participation and partnership, these extremely imposed frameworks miss out on millennia of local observation and understanding and seldom deliver viable and sustained environmental, cultural and economic benefits at the local level. This collection argues that environmental sustainability, indigenous political empowerment and economic viability will succeed only by taking account of distinct local contexts and cultures. In this regard, these Pacific indigenous case studies offer ‘islands of hope’ for all communities marginalised by increasingly intrusive—and increasingly rapid—technological changes and by global dietary, economic, political and military forces with whom they have no direct contact or influence.

Author : Vanessa Smith,Nicholas Thomas,Maia Nuku
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824839055

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Mutiny and Aftermath by Vanessa Smith,Nicholas Thomas,Maia Nuku Pdf

The mutiny on the Bounty was one of the most controversial events of eighteenth-century maritime history. This book publishes a full and absorbing narrative of the events by one of the participants, the boatswain's mate James Morrison, who tells the story of the mounting tensions over the course of the voyage out to Tahiti, the fascinating encounter with Polynesian culture there, and the shocking drama of the event itself. In the aftermath, Morrison was among those who tried to make a new life on Tahiti. In doing so, he gained a deeper understanding of Polynesian culture than any European who went on to write about the people of the island and their way of life before it was changed forever by Christianity and colonial contact. Morrison was not a professional scientist but a keen observer with a lively sympathy for Islanders. This is the most insightful and wide-ranging of early European accounts of Tahitian life. Mutiny and Aftermath is the first scholarly edition of this classic of Pacific history and anthropology. It is based directly on a close study of Morrison’s original manuscript, one of the treasures of the Mitchell Library in Sydney, Australia. The editors assess and explain Morrison’s observations of Islander culture and social relations, both on Tubuai in the Austral Islands and on Tahiti itself. The book fully identifies the Tahitian people and places that Morrison refers to and makes this remarkable text accessible for the first time to all those interested in an extraordinary chapter of early Pacific history.

Author : Alex Frame
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 086473431X

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Grey and Iwikau by Alex Frame Pdf

Before the Maori tribes of New Zealand and the government descended into hostilities, the governor, Sir George Grey, and a Maori chief, Iwikau Te Heu, journeyed together from Auckland to Taupo in 1849-1850. This book explores their travels and sheds light on the interaction between the respective cultures of Grey and Iwikau, with a special focus on the custom and law of the time.

Author : Edwin N. Ferdon
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816534777

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Early Tahiti As the Explorers Saw It, 1767–1797 by Edwin N. Ferdon Pdf

For thirty years before the coming of the European missionaries, European explorers were able to observe Tahitian society as it had existed for centuries. Now Edwin Ferdon, Polynesian archaeologist and veteran of Thor Heyerdah's expedition to Easter Island, has interwoven their records to show us in fascinating detail what that society was like.

Author : Jane Samson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351954587

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British Imperial Strategies in the Pacific, 1750-1900 by Jane Samson Pdf

The focus of this volume is Britain's trans-Pacific empire. This began with haphazard challenges to Spanish dominion, but by the end of the 18th century, the British had established a colony in Australia and had gone to the brink of war with Spain to establish trading rights in the north Pacific. These rights led to formal colonies in Vancouver Island and British Columbia, when Britain sought to maintain a north Pacific presence despite American expansionism. In the later 19th century the international ’scramble for the Pacific’ resulted in new British colonies and protectorates in the Pacific islands. The result was a complex imperial presence, created from a variety of motives and circumstances. The essays selected here take account of the wide range of economic, political and cultural factors which prompted British expansion, creating tension in Britain's imperial identity in the Pacific, and leaving Pacific peoples with a complicated and challenging legacy. Along with the important new introduction, they provide a basis for the reassessment of British imperialism in the Pacific region.

Author : New Zealand. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : New Zealand
ISBN : UCAL:B2890219

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Parliamentary Debates by New Zealand. Parliament Pdf