Books of mana : 180 Māori-authored books of significance / edited by Jacinta Ruru, Angela Wanhalla and Jeanette Wikaira.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ruru, Jacinta, 1974- aggregator person.

Wanhalla, Angela, aggregator person.

Wikaira, Jeanette, aggregator person.

Te Takarangi (Project), related corporate body of work.

Language:

English

Maori

Subjects (All):

New Zealand prose literature--Māori authors--Bio-bliography.

New Zealand prose literature.

Māori literature--Bio-bliography.

Māori literature.

English literature--Māori authors--Bio-bibliography.

English literature.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

255 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm

colour.

illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press Te Whare Tā o Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, 2025.

Language Note:

In English with some Māori.

Summary:

"Books of Mana celebrates the rich tradition of Māori authorship in Aotearoa New Zealand. It reveals the central place of over 200 years of print literacy within te ao Māori and vividly conveys how books are understood as taonga tuku iho - treasured items handed down through generations. In this beautifully illustrated collection of essays, some of Aotearoa New Zealand's most renowned Māori thinkers join the editors in a wide-ranging kōrero about the influence and empowerment of Māori writing. Books of Mana builds on the work of editors Jacinta Ruru, Angela Wanhalla and Jeanette Wikaira, who curated Te Takarangi, a selected list of Māori-authored non-fiction books published since 1815. Launched in 2018, in partnership with the Royal Society Te Apārangi, the Te Takarangi list now comprises 180 titles, each representing an important touchstone in an extensive landscape of Māori literature. Books of Mana explores the ways these books have enriched lives and helped to foster understanding of Māori experience, both at home in Aotearoa and internationally. What emerges from the essays collected within these covers is a clear vision of the importance of writing as activism and a profound sense that these Māori-authored non-fiction books, and the knowledge they contain, are taonga"--Publisher's website.

Contents:

He mihi

Introduction: 1. 'Books have always been important to us': the enduring mana of knowledge / Jacinta Ruru, Angela Wanhalla, Jeanette Wikaira

Te Takarangi: the collection

2. An intersecting spiral : curating Te Takarangi / Jacinta Ruru, Angela Wanhalla, Jeanette Wikaira

3. Māori scholarly voyaging : the making of Māori writing / Jeanette Wikaira

4. Rocks standing firm in the sea: the anchor books / Jacinta Ruru, Angela Wanhalla, Jeanette Wikaira

5. A spotlight on Ngā Mōteatea/The songs / Wayne Ngata

6. Capturing the publisher's eye / Spencer Lilley

7. Seeing Te Takarangi through the book covers : art and imagery / Huhana Smith with Bridget Reweti

Why we write

8. He mihi atu : acknowledging the past, present and future / Angela Wanhalla

9. Acts of resistance and revitalisation / Maria Bargh

10. Te reo rangatira / Poia Rewi and Rawinia Higgins with Victoria Campbell

11. 'Kia Māori te tuhi' : how we write / Megan Pōtiki with Jacinta Ruru

12. Making mana wāhine visible / Angela Wanhalla

13 He toka tū moana and sanctuaries of scholarship / Hinekura Smith

Books as taonga

14. Books are taonga / Jeanette Wikaira

15. Feeling history : taonga and kōrero in places of loss / Matariki Williams

16. He taonga kōrero, he taha wairua / Paul Meredith

17. Ko te kupu te ihi, te wehi, te wanawana : libraries, archives and mātauranga Māori / Jacinta Beckwith

Conclusion

19. 'The written word can change the course of history' : our Māori story sovereignty / Jacinta Ruru, Angela Wanhalla, Jeanette Wikaira

Appendix Te Takarangi list (1815-2022) / Jacinta Ruru, Angela Wanhalla, Jeanette Wikaira, Emma Gattey

Te Takarangi list by title

Te Takarangi list by author

Notes

Index.

ISBN:

9781990048852

1990048854

OCLC:

1500153410