The Mana - Tapu - Noa Concepts in Maori Religion from the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
Title | The Mana - Tapu - Noa Concepts in Maori Religion from the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | James Irwin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 378 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Dissertations, Academic |
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Bibliography of New Religious Movements in Primal Societies: Oceania
Title | Bibliography of New Religious Movements in Primal Societies: Oceania PDF eBook |
Author | Harold W. Turner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Cults |
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Spiritual and Mental Concepts of the Maori
Title | Spiritual and Mental Concepts of the Maori PDF eBook |
Author | Elsdon Best |
Publisher | |
Pages | 54 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | History |
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Spiritual and Mental Concepts of the Maori by Elsdon Best, first published in 1922, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Tapu Removal in Maori Religion
Title | Tapu Removal in Maori Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Smith |
Publisher | |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Māori (New Zealand people) |
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Acquisition List
Title | Acquisition List PDF eBook |
Author | University of Hawaii at Manoa. Library. Pacific Collection |
Publisher | |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Oceania |
ISBN |
Storytelling around the World
Title | Storytelling around the World PDF eBook |
Author | Jelena Cvorovic |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2022-03-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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This book provides students, instructors, and lay-readers with a cross-cultural understanding of storytelling as an art form that has existed for centuries, from the first spoken and sung stories to those that are drawn and performed today. This book serves as an indispensable resource for students and scholars interested in storytelling and in multicultural approaches to the arts. By taking an evolutionary approach, this book begins with a discussion of origin stories and continues through history to stories of the 21st century. The text not only engages the stories themselves, it also explains how individuals from all disciplines, from doctors and lawyers to priests and journalists, use stories to focus their readers' and listeners' attention and influence them. This text addresses stories and storytelling across both time (thousands of years) and geography, including in-depth descriptions of storytelling practices occurring in more than 40 different cultures around the world. Part I consists of thematic essays, exploring such topics as the history of storytelling, common elements across cultures, different media, lessons stories teach us, and storytelling today. Part II looks at more than 40 different cultures, with entries following the same outline: Overview, Storytellers: Who Tell the Stories, and When, Creation Mythologies, Teaching Tales and Values, and Cultural Preservation. Several tales/tale excerpts accompany each entry.
Some Aspects of Maori Myth and Religion
Title | Some Aspects of Maori Myth and Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Elsdon Best |
Publisher | |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 1954 |
Genre | Folk-lore, Maori |
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A comparatively brief paper offering a general sketch of Maori cosmogony, anthropogeny and religion.