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Maori warfare, by A. P. Vayda.
- Title
- Maori warfare, by A. P. Vayda.
- Author
- Vayda, Andrew Peter
- Publication
- Wellington, New Zealand, Polynesian Society, 1960.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Polynesian Society (N.Z.)
- Description
- ix, 141 p. illus.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This study by an anthropologist gives a clear, coherent, and carefully documented description of Maori warfare in its last stage of evolution beofre its character was greatly altered by European weapons and ways. The book shows Maori warfare in relation to the New Zealand environment in which the Maori people worked and fought. Dr Vayda's discussions of cannibalism, slavery, the exploitation of conquered land, and other aspects of warfare in pre-European New Zealand will increase our understanding and perhaps modify some accepted views in this field"--Dust jacket.
- Series Statement
- Polynesian Society. Maori monographs, no. 2
- Uniform Title
- Polynesian Society Māori monographs no. 2.
- Subject
- Māori (New Zealand people) > Warfare
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Originally presented as the author's thesis, Columbia, 1956.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 125-133.
- Indexed In (note)
- Bagnall
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Maori warfare : Weapons & war dress -- Fortifications -- Approaching to fight -- Tactics in fighting -- Withdrawal in fighting -- Kinship & locality in Maori warfare -- Fighting strength of the Hapu -- Leadership & discipline -- Advantages of the hapu as a fighting unit -- Small & large war parties -- Mobilisation -- Training -- Women -- Danger of being surprised -- Stratagems to conceal attacks -- Attacks at night & at dawn -- Attacks in bad weather -- Scouts -- Other measures safeguarding surprise -- Security -- Counter-surprise -- Fighting in the open -- War-dance -- Single combats -- Commissariat -- Cannibalism -- Provisions in the forts -- Water supply -- Sieges & other ways to capture forts -- Duration & frequency of military activities -- Pursuit & mortality -- Torture -- Treatment of the enemy slain & goods -- Prisoners & slaves -- Conquests -- Peace-making -- Maori personal, place & tribal names & general New Zealand place names.
- LCCN
- ^^^73172457^//r933
- OCLC
- 799943
- SCSB-13492415
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library