Tangata Whenua [= The old world, 3000 BC - AD 1830] : an illustrated history ; Part one ; Te Ao Tawhito
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Anderson Atholl J. (1943-...) ;
- ISBN : 978-1-988533-35-3, 1-988533-35-X
- Sujets : Maoris (peuple de Nouvelle-Zélande) -- Histoire, Nouvelle-Zélande -- Histoire, Ouvrages illustrés
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (216 p.), : Ill. en coul., cartes, couv. ill. en coul., 30 cm
- Pays de publication : Nouvelle-Zélande
Notes
Notes bibliogr. p. 192-211. Index
Résumé
Te Ao Tawhito: The Old World contemplates Māori origins in the 'blue continent', the vast Pacific Ocean across which the earliest ancestors travelled to settle these southernmost Pacific islands. Here they organised into hapū and iwi, adapting tropical ways to life in a huge but temperate land, building communities and developing cultures. Early European visitors observed Māori society and changed it too, as more and more Europeans arrived, then stayed