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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810390303321

Titolo

He pitopito korero no te perehi Maori / / edited by Jenifer Curnow, Ngapare Hopa and Jane McRae

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Auckland, New Zealand : , : Auckland University Press, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

1-77558-564-6

1-86940-503-X

1-77558-083-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Disciplina

070.4840993

Soggetti

Māori (New Zealand people) - History

Māori (New Zealand people) - Social life and customs

Māori newspapers - New Zealand - History - 19th century

New Zealand History Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title Page; Table of Contents; Table of Contents; Kupu Whakataki Introduction; Nga Nupepa o tenei Kohinga The Newspapers of this Collection; Ko nga Kaiwhakamaori Translators; I Na te Etita From the Editors; II Nga Reta Letters; III Nga Korero Articles; IV Nga Rongo News; V Nga Mate Obituaries; VI Panui Advertisements; Copyright

Sommario/riassunto

He Pitopito Korero no te Perehi Maori: Readings from the Maori-Language Press is a reader of various articles and content from nineteenth-century Maori newspapers.  There are letters and editorials with all the dignity and polished rhetoric of speeches, heated political debates, electioneering, prosaic daily news items and tradesmen's advertisements. One newspaper even includes a report of the death of a favourite cat; and the goings-on at schools and race tracks, women's committees and marae are all reported. Divided into six sections and with the Maori and English texts running side by