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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790115503321

Autore

Te Punga Somerville Alice

Titolo

Once were Pacific [[electronic resource] ] : Māori connections to Oceania / / Alice Te Punga Somerville

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012

ISBN

1-4529-4800-3

0-8166-8150-3

0-8166-7757-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxx, 265 p.)

Disciplina

993/.00499442

Soggetti

Māori (New Zealand people) - Ethnic identity

Indigenous peoples - Oceania - History

Māori (New Zealand people) - Migrations - History

Regionalism - Oceania

Māori (New Zealand people) - Intellectual life

New Zealand literature - Māori authors - History and criticism

Oceania Ethnic relations

Oceania Emigration and immigration History

New Zealand Relations Oceania

Oceania Relations New Zealand

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Māori and the Pacific -- Part I. Tapa : Aotearoa in the Pacific Region -- Māori People in Pacific Spaces -- Pacific-Based Māori Writers -- Aotearoa-Based Māori Writers -- The Realm of Tapa -- Part II. Koura : The Pacific in Aotearoa -- Māori/Pasifika Collaborations -- "It's like that with us Māoris" : Māori Write Connections -- Manuhiri, Fānau : Pasifika Write Connections -- When Romeo Met Tusi : Disconnections -- The Realm of Koura -- Conclusion: E Kore Au e Ngaro -- Epilogue: A Time and a Place.

Sommario/riassunto

Native identity is usually associated with a particular place. But what if that place is the ocean? This book explores 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. This book 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.