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"Te Tahi o Pipiri" : Literacy and missionary pedagogy as mechanisms in change. The reactions of three rangatira from the Bay of Islands: 1814-1834

Tuato'o, Danny (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2007)

This thesis is concerned with the ways Imperialism (and consequently colonialism) has pervaded the indigenous 'primitive' world. Protectorates and 'the colonies' reflected imperialist ideals, expansion, territory, external ...
Unearthly landscapes : the development of the cemetery in nineteenth century New Zealand.

Deed, Stephen (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2005)

Summary: Written, visual and material evidence demonstrates that the indigenous and immigrant peoples of nineteenth century New Zealand both retained aspects of their traditional burial practices and forms of memorialisation ...
The South Island Māori population.

Rutherford, D. W. (Donald William) (Thesis, Master of Arts, 1941)

For the proper study of any aspect of Māori life - enthnological, economic, or historical - a preliminary census of Māori population would appear to be essential. Preliminary surveys of population-movements do, in fact, ...
The economic life of the present-day Māori.

Jansen, Elwyn George (Thesis, Master of Arts, 1935)

Summary: In order to gather material and to fit himself generally for the writing of this thesis, the writer, in company with a companion, devoted a portion of the Summer Vacation to an extended tour of the Māori field. ...
The decolonisation of culture, the trickster as transformer in native Canadian and Māori fiction

Anderson, Robyn Lisa (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2003)

The trickster is a powerful figure of transformation in many societies, including Native Canadian and Māori cultures. As a demi-god, the trickster has the ability to assume the shape of a variety of animals and humans, but ...
Making culture or making culture possible : notions of biculturalism in New Zealand 1980s cinema and the role of the New Zealand Film Commission

Kontour, Kyle (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2002)

In the 1970s and 1980s New Zealand experienced significant socio-economic upheaval due in part to the global economy, economic experiments, and the gains of Māori activism. Despite the divisiveness of this period (or ...
Pastoralism and the transformation of the rangelands of the South Island of New Zealand 1841 to 1912 : Mt Peel Station, a case study

Peden, Robert L (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007)

The transformation of the rangelands of the South Island of New Zealand during the pastoral era fits into the wider international context of European expansion into the 'new' world. European settlers displaced native ...
Sépulture perpétuelle : New Zealand and Gallipoli : possession, preservation and pilgrimage 1916-1965

Mackay, Don Christopher (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007)

Constructions of memory, myth and legend relating to Gallipoli have dominated the academic assumption which suggests that this dimension alone has allowed for the reawakening of the exceptional interest in the Anzac ...
Culture change in northern Te Wai Pounamu

Barber, Ian G (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 1994)

In the northern South Island, the area northern Te Wai Pounamu (NTWP) is defined appropriate to a regional investigation of pre-European culture change. It is argued that the Māori sequence of this region is relevant to a ...
The Māori Whare after contact

Martin, David Robert (Thesis, Master of Arts, 1997)

This study explores post-contact changes to the ordinary Māori whare. The main physical characteristics of the ordinary whare at contact are identified by accessing archaeological and written 18th century ethnographic data. ...

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