Tears of Rangi : experiments across worlds / Anne Salmond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salmond, Anne, author.

Standardized Title:

Tears of Rangi (2017)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Māori (New Zealand people)--History.

Māori (New Zealand people).

History.

Human ecology--New Zealand.

Human ecology.

Natural resources--Social aspects--New Zealand.

Natural resources.

Colonization.

Ethnic relations.

Natural resources--Social aspects.

New Zealand--Ethnic relations.

New Zealand.

New Zealand--Colonization.

New Zealand Region.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 511 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"Six centuries ago Polynesian explorers, who inhabited a cosmos in which islands sailed across the sea and stars across the sky, arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand where they rapidly adapted to new plants, animals, landscapes and climatic conditions. Four centuries later, European explorers arrived with maps and clocks, grids and fences, and they too adapted to a new island home. In this remote, beautiful archipelago, settlers from Polynesia and Europe (and elsewhere) have clashed and forged alliances, they have fiercely debated what is real and what is common sense, what is good and what is right. In this, her most ambitious book to date, Dame Anne Salmond looks at New Zealand as a site of cosmo-diversity, a place where multiple worlds engage and collide. Beginning with a fine-grained inquiry into the early period of encounters between Maori and Europeans in New Zealand (1769-1840), Salmond then investigates such clashes and exchanges in key areas of contemporary life; waterways, land, the sea and people"--Inside dust jacket.

Contents:

Part one: Early encounters. 1769-1840

Part two: Rivers, land, sea and people.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Ockham New Zealand Book Award for General Non-Fiction, Longlist 2018.

ISBN:

9781869408657

1869408659

OCLC:

984106129