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Buddy Mikaere provides a highly readable historical overview of early settlement in New Zealand, and examines the impact of colonisation and later a developing urban world on Maori and their traditional way of life. Today, the importance of marae and community remains strong, as do many time...

A guide - complete with glossary - to customs, protocol and etiquette for visitors to New Zealand marae. Hiwi and Pat Tauroa outline the sequence of events that begins when visitors arrive at the gates of a marae and ends with their departure. Appropriate behaviour is...

"Step-by-step guide to a powhiri, or welcome ceremony, showing and describing what happens, the people involved, what they do, and the values and understandings underpinning the ceremony. There is also a close look at the outside and inside of a wharenui, or meeting house, showing each of the...

A study of formal speeches of greeting, endorsement (tautoko), replies (poroporoaki) and speeches of thanks to the cooks (ringawera) made by the guest delegation in indigenous oral literature.

A study of formal speeches of welcome made by the host delegation in indigenous oral literature. Covering forty-two basic to complex formulae in 64 pages best suited for adult learners at a basic level of competency. Each formula has a Maori-English bilingual translation. Some formula have...

Based on in-depth research and interviews with 30 tribal elders, this guidebook to whaikorero--or New Zealand's traditional Maori oratory--is the first introduction to this fundamental art form. Assessing whaikorero's origin, history, structure,...

A collection of articles exploring the role and significance of whare t'puna and marae as sources of traditional and ancestral knowledge, and of the richness of te reo M'ori language and literature. This is vital in order to preserve and uphold te reo M'ori. If te reo M'ori remains strong within...