Mana Māori. The Power of New Zealand's First Inhabitants

• Main Author: Wonu Veys, Fanny (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden University Press 2010
• Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; maori ethnography; new zealand; popular science; Meeting house; National Museum of Ethnology (Netherlands); Netherlands; Taonga
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This book takes you on a journey exploring the histories of the country's first Polynesian discoverers, its encounters with Europeans and the subsequent settling by Westerners. Particular attention will be paid to the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman and the Dutch immigration wave of the 1950s. Throu...