The Rahui

The Rahui
Title The Rahui PDF eBook
Author Tamatoa Bambridge
Publisher ANU Press
Pages 283
Release 2016-03-22
Genre Law
ISBN 1925022919

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This collection deals with an ancient institution in Eastern Polynesia called the rahui, a form of restricting access to resources and/or territories. While tapu had been extensively discussed in the scientific literature on Oceanian anthropology, the rahui is quite absent from secondary modern literature. This situation is all the more problematic because individual actors, societies, and states in the Pacific are readapting such concepts to their current needs, such as environment regulation or cultural legitimacy. This book assembles a comprehensive collection of current works on the rahui from a legal pluralism perspective. This study as a whole underlines the new assertion of identity that has flowed from the cultural dimension of the rahui. Today, rahui have become a means for indigenous communities to be fully recognised on a political level. Some indigenous communities choose to restore the rahui in order to preserve political control of their territory or, in some cases, to get it back. For the state, better control of the rahui represents a way of asserting its legitimacy and its sovereignty, in the face of this reassertion by indigenous communities.

Dominion Museum Monograph

Dominion Museum Monograph
Title Dominion Museum Monograph PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 186
Release 1922
Genre Ethnology
ISBN

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Primitive Economics of the New Zealand Maori (Routledge Revivals)

Primitive Economics of the New Zealand Maori (Routledge Revivals)
Title Primitive Economics of the New Zealand Maori (Routledge Revivals) PDF eBook
Author Raymond Firth
Publisher Routledge
Pages 551
Release 2012-11-12
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1136505369

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First published in 1929, Raymond Firth’s original and insightful study offers an incredibly detailed account of the social and economic organisation of the Maori people before their contact with Western civilisation. Bridging the gap between anthropology and economics, the work covers the class structure, land system, industry, methods of co-operative labour, exchange and distribution, and the psychological foundations of Maori society. This reissue will be welcomed by all students of anthropology and anyone interested the history of the Maori people.

Landmarks, Bridges and Visions

Landmarks, Bridges and Visions
Title Landmarks, Bridges and Visions PDF eBook
Author Sidney M. Mead
Publisher Victoria University Press
Pages 276
Release 1997
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780864733177

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"This is a collection of words, ideas, opinions, theories, reactions and prescriptions for the future, written over a period of three decades"--Introd.

The Journal of the Polynesian Society

The Journal of the Polynesian Society
Title The Journal of the Polynesian Society PDF eBook
Author Polynesian Society (N.Z.)
Publisher
Pages 580
Release 1905
Genre Polynesia
ISBN

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Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.

Tikanga Māori

Tikanga Māori
Title Tikanga Māori PDF eBook
Author Sidney M. Mead
Publisher Huia Publishers
Pages 412
Release 2003
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9781877283888

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'Relationships between and among people need to be managed and guarded by some rules'. Professor Hirini Moko Mead's comprehensive survey of tikanga Maori (Maori custom) is the most substantial of its kind every published. Ranging over topics from the everyday to the esoteric, it provides a breadth of perspectives and authoritative commentary on the principles and practice of tikanga Maori past and present.

Mutiny and Aftermath

Mutiny and Aftermath
Title Mutiny and Aftermath PDF eBook
Author Vanessa Smith
Publisher University of Hawaii Press
Pages 370
Release 2013-09-03
Genre History
ISBN 0824839056

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The mutiny on the Bounty was one of the most controversial events of eighteenth-century maritime history. This book publishes a full and absorbing narrative of the events by one of the participants, the boatswain's mate James Morrison, who tells the story of the mounting tensions over the course of the voyage out to Tahiti, the fascinating encounter with Polynesian culture there, and the shocking drama of the event itself. In the aftermath, Morrison was among those who tried to make a new life on Tahiti. In doing so, he gained a deeper understanding of Polynesian culture than any European who went on to write about the people of the island and their way of life before it was changed forever by Christianity and colonial contact. Morrison was not a professional scientist but a keen observer with a lively sympathy for Islanders. This is the most insightful and wide-ranging of early European accounts of Tahitian life. Mutiny and Aftermath is the first scholarly edition of this classic of Pacific history and anthropology. It is based directly on a close study of Morrison’s original manuscript, one of the treasures of the Mitchell Library in Sydney, Australia. The editors assess and explain Morrison’s observations of Islander culture and social relations, both on Tubuai in the Austral Islands and on Tahiti itself. The book fully identifies the Tahitian people and places that Morrison refers to and makes this remarkable text accessible for the first time to all those interested in an extraordinary chapter of early Pacific history.