Kai and Kindness by Jane and Paul Rangiwahia
$55.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drinks
Kai and Kindness is a book that sits equally well on the coffee table as in the kitchen. Brother and sister health advocate and artist Paul and food writer Jane have combined their skills to produce a book that nourishes the body and the mind. Their aim is to help start conversations about health and em ...Show more
Te Awa o Kupu by Vaughan Rapatahana (Editor); Kiri Piahana-Wong (Editor)
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A stunning new collection of poetry and stories by contemporary Māori writers. Through poetry and short stories, over 80 contemporary Maori writers explore a vast array of issues that challenge, stimulate and intrigue. Chosen for their verbal dexterity, originality and insight, they express compassion, ...Show more
Whakawhetai: Gratitude - A Daily Bilingual Journal by Hira Nathan
$37.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori
A beautiful bilingual gratitude journal to help improve your te reo and your life. Kia ū ki te pai, kia whai hua ai. Hold on to what is good and good things will follow. An inspirational, bilingual gratitude journal, based on the Māori holistic approach to health, hauora. Discover the four dimens ...Show more
Maori and the Environment Kaitiaki by Rachel Selby
$40.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori
This collection of 19 articles discusses the impact of changes in Aotearoa New Zealand's natural environment due to factors such as climate change, pollution and degredation of waterways and land, pest control and environmental management policy. It highlights Maori perspectives on these issues and acti ...Show more
Matariki The Maori New Year by Libby Hakaraia
$21.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori
This book is an introduction to the star group Matariki. Known in other cultures by names including the Pleiades and the Seven Sisters, Matariki featured strongly in pre-European New Zealand. It marked the beginning of the Māori calendar, and its rising before the sun in late May or early June was gree ...Show more
Tangata Ngai Tahu / People of Ngai Tahu: Volume Two by Helen Brown & Michael Stevens
$50.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori | Reading Level: near fine
Tāngata Ngāi Tahu, Volume Two remembers and celebrates the rich and diverse lives of the people of Ngāi Tahu. Spanning time, geography and kaupapa, some fifty biographies bring Ngāi Tahu history into the present. The people in the book have contributed to their iwi, hapū and whānau in myriad ways: here ...Show more
Marae - Te Tatau Pounamu: A Journey Around New Zealand's Meeting Houses by Muru Walters; Sam Walters; Robin Walters
$65.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori
A magnificent, prize-winning documentation of and tribute to New Zealand's wharenui, big and small. Bishop Muru Walters is a very well-known Anglican minister. He is also a master carver, poet, broadcaster and former Maori All Black. His son Robin is a photographer and filmmaker, who is director at Curi ...Show more
Maori Philosophy: Indigenous Thinking from Aotearoa by Georgina Tuari Stewart
$41.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori
Covering the symbolic systems and worldviews of the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa, New Zealand, this book is a concise introduction to Maori philosophy. It addresses core philosophical issues including Maori notions of the self, the world, epistemology, the form in which Maori philosophy is conveyed, a ...Show more
Like Moths to the Flame? - A History of Ngati Raukawa Resistance and Recovery by Annabel Mikaere; Te Wananga-o-Raukawa Staff (Contribution by)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori
Like Moths to the Flame?: A History of Ngati Raukawa Resistance and Recovery explores the extent to which the unique qualities of Ngati Raukawa thought have survived the encounter with European ideas. It argues that preservation of a distinctive Ngati Raukawa intellectual tradition is crucial to the lon ...Show more
Mauri Ora: Wisdom from the Maori World by Peter Alsop & Te Rau Kupenga
$40.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori | Reading Level: near fine
Pearls of wisdom – whakataukī – have been gifted from generation to generation as an intrinsic part of the Māori world. As powerful metaphors, they combine analogy and cultural history in the most economical of words. Short and insightful, they take you by surprise, engendering reflection, learning and ...Show more
Matariki: The Star of the Year by Rangi Matamua
$35.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori
In mid-winter, Matariki rises in the pre-dawn sky, and its observation is celebrated with incantations on hilltops at dawn, balls, exhibitions, dinners and a vast number of events. The Matariki tradition has been re-established, and its regeneration coincides with a growing interest in Māori astronomy. ...Show more
Living by the Moon: Te Maramataka a Te Whānau-ā-Apanui by Wiremu Tāwhai
$25.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori
Living by the Moon sets out and discusses the maramataka or lunar month and the way the days and nights were understood according to Te Whānau-ā-Apanui tribal knowledge. Te Whānau-ā-Apanui ancestors were dependent on the environment, and this led them to closely study the changes and cycles in nature so ...Show more