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Best of both worlds : the story of Elsdon Best and Tutakangahau / Jeffrey Paparoa Holman.

Title
Best of both worlds : the story of Elsdon Best and Tutakangahau / Jeffrey Paparoa Holman.
Author
Holman, Jeffrey Paparoa, 1947-
Publication
North Shore, N.Z. ; New York : Penguin, 2010.

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344 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.
Summary
In 1895 a meeting took place in the rugged Urewera ranges - Tuhoe country - that would have lasting effects on our views of traditional Maori society. Elsdon Best, a self-taught anthropologist and quartermaster on the road past Lake Waikaremoana, was sought out by a leading Tuhoe chief, Tutakangahau of Maungapohatu. The stories he gave to Best to be recorded for future generations are with us today. Best went on to become a noted Pakeha authority on a people he would style as the last of 'the oldtime Maori'.
Alternative Title
Story of Elsdon Best and Tutakangahau
Subject
  • Tutakangahau, Marewa-i-te-rangi, -1897
  • Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931
  • Māori (New Zealand people) > Historiography
  • Ngāi Tūhoe (New Zealand people) > History
  • Ngāi Tūhoe (New Zealand people) > Social life and customs
  • Kōrero nehe
  • Tikanga-ā-iwi
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-309) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
One. White noise : the history of ideas and the Urewera -- Two. The end of tradition and the fleets on print -- Three. Te Ao hurihuri : the world of change for Tūhoe -- Four. White Tohunga : best on the frontier, 1856-1874 -- Five : Te riri me te ture : war and the law, 1864-1983 -- Six. Best matures : from Parihaka to the Polynesian Society, 1874-1892 -- Seven. Ki tā te kāwantanga te mutunga : the government will have it way in the end -- Eight. Into the mist : in search of the mythopoetic Maori -- Nine. A territory for the Maori people and the indigenous birds : Tuhoe and the Rohe Potae, 1896-1909 -- Ten. Wiped off the slate of life : the last of the Mohios -- Eleven. The Māori according to Best : ka tō he rā, k aura he rā! -- Twelve. Mai marama : let there be light, the half-life of te Peehi in our midst.
ISBN
  • 9780143008422 (pbk.)
  • 0143008420 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 495313335
  • SCSB-10559604
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