Tikanga - An introduction to te Ao Maori by Keri Opai
$40.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori | Reading Level: near fine
An introduction to te ao Māori. The guide to understanding the Māori world from a 21st century point of view. The book we’ve all been needing for decades – a unique explanation of the world of Māoridom for Pakehā, and all others disconnected from the Māori world. Told with simple lucidity and great expe ...Show more
Reawakened - Traditional Navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa by Jeff Evans
$40.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori | Reading Level: near fine
This book features interviews with 10 master navigators who trained under Mau Piailug (1932-2010), the legendary teacher of traditional, non-instrument wayfinding methods for open-ocean voyaging across the Pacific. They were given the status of master navigator by Mau through the Pwo ceremony, and went ...Show more
The Survival of Maori as a People: A Collection of Papers by Emeritus Professor Whatarangi Winiata by Whatarangi Winiata
$65.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori
This collection of twenty-five papers by Professor Whatarangi Winiata and co-authors given over the last forty years, comment on Maori spirituality, social development, education and political affairs. They cover Professor Winiata's experiences of and thinking about reengineering the working of the Hahi ...Show more
Te Rongoa Maori: Maori Medicine by P. M. E. Williams
$35.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori | Reading Level: very good
Pip Williams, a retired pharmacist living in Northland, has spent his life observing and recording the use by local Maori of native plants for medicinal purposes. Te Rongoa Maoribrings together his observations on 43 New Zealand plants and the health problems they were used to treat, colourfully intersp ...Show more
Waiwhero: Red Waters: A Celebration of Womanhood: He Whakahirahiratanga o te Ira Wahine by Ngahuia Murphy; Ngāhuia Murphy; Sean Ellison; Regan Balzer
$25.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori
Waiwhero: He Whakahirahiratanga o te Ira Wahine: A Celebration of Womanhood is based on Te Awa Atua but has been written specifically for whanau, rangatahi, the education and health sectors. Waiwhero is also bilingual, having been translated by the wonderful Sean Ellison, making it a great reo and kaupa ...Show more
Pathway of the Birds by Andrew Crowe
$50.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori
Pathway of the Birds explores a neglected epoch of world history, one that saw Polynesians expand their territory across the world's largest ocean in one of the most expansive and rapid phases of human migration in prehistory. Were Polynesians adept at navigating return voyages or had they settled the P ...Show more
The Balance Destroyed by Annabel Mikaere; Robyn Kahukiwa (Illustrator); Te Wananga-o-Raukawa, Te Takapu Staff (Contribution by)
$70.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori
This thesis is an attempt to take up the challenge, to begin to make sense of the 'baffling inconsistencies' encountered by Maori women in their everyday lives. The Balance Destroyed presents a Maori woman's perspective on the roles of women within their whanau, hapu and iwi prior to colonisation, and t ...Show more
Mai i te Kakano by Heni Jacob
$75.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori
Provides a unique, "more Maori", more fun way to say things in everyday situations. Written entirely in Maori, this book includes sections on Maori idiom and metaphor, common errors, and examples of language in use in a variety of settings, including the home, at the supermarket , at the beach and on th ...Show more
Introducing Maori Culture by Don Stafford
$20.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori | Reading Level: very good
This book answers questions such as: When was Aotearoa discovered? How was Maori society organised in pre-European times? What is traditional Maori art? How does the Treaty of Waitangi affect us today? These are some of the questions commonly asked by New Zealanders and visitors about the Maori people a ...Show more
Moko: Maori Tattooing in the 20th Century by Michael King
$45.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori
Moko is written by Michael King, one of New Zealand's most celebrated historians, and photographed by Marti Friedlander, one of the country's most eminent photographers. One of New Zealand's iconic books, originally published in 1972, it was a milestone in New Zealand publishing. Maori subject matter w ...Show more
Te Mahi Mara Hua Parakore - A Maori Food Sovereignty Handbook by Jessica Hutchings
$75.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori | Reading Level: near fine
Maori Place Names: Their Meanings and Origins by A. W. Reed; Peter Dowling
$35.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori | Reading Level: very good
Pronounce and understand Māori place names with the new fourth edition of A.W. Reed's classic guide to meanings and origins of names across New Zealand. From Ahaura to Whitianga, this handily sized book is the definitive guide to over 2300 of the most common and notable Maori names on our land. Why do W ...Show more