Once Were Pacific Maori Connections to Oceania

Name: Once Were Pacific Maori Connections to Oceania
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ISBN: 9780816677573

ISBN-10: 0816677573

ISBN-13: 9780816677573

Edition: 2012

Authors: Alice Te Punga Somerville

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Native identity is usually associated with a particular place. But what if that place is the ocean?Once Were Pacificexplores this question as it considers how Māori and other Pacific peoples frame their connection to the ocean, to New Zealand, and to each other through various creative works. Māori scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville shows how and when Māori and other Pacific peoples articulate their ancestral history as migratory seafarers, drawing their identity not only from land but also from water.Although Māori are ethnically Polynesian, and Aotearoa New Zealand is clearly a part of the Pacific region, in New Zealand the terms “Māori” and “Pacific” are colloquially applied to two…

Book details

List price: $25.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 4/11/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Alice Te Punga Somerville (Te Ātiawa) is senior lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, where she teaches Māori, Pacific, and Indigenous writing in English.



Nga Mihi: Acknowledgments


Introduction: Maori and the Pacific



Tapa: Aotearoa in the Pacific Region



Maori People in Pacific Spaces



Pacific-Based Maori Writers



Aotearoa-Based Maori Writers


The Realm of Tapa



Koura: The Pacific in Aotearoa



Maori-Pasifika Collaborations



"Its Like That with Us Maoris": Maori Write Connections



Manuhiri, Fanau: Pasifika Write Connections



When Romeo Met Tusi: Disconnections


The Realm of Koura


Conclusion: E Kore Au e Ngaro


Epilogue: A Time and a Place


Notes


Publication History


Index