Research Catalog

Title

Tangata o le moana : New Zealand and the people of the Pacific / edited by Sean Mallon, Kolokesa Māhina-Tuai and Damon Salesa.

Publication

Wellington, N.Z. : Te Papa Press, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mallon, Sean
• Māhina-Tuai, Kolokesa Uafā
• Salesa, Damon Ieremia, 1972-

Description

392 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 28 cm.

Summary

"This illustrated history tells the amazing story of Pacific people and their relationships with, and contributions to, New Zealand society. In a great feat of exploration and migration, Pacific Islanders became the first people to step foot on these shores some 800 years ago. Today, New Zealand is home to the largest population of Pacific Islanders anywhere in the world, and New Zealand has a long history with the other islands of the Pacific, their people and their cultures. Yet how many New Zealanders consider themselves Pacific Islanders, despite this shared geography and past? How many know the amazing history of New Zealand's Pacific people? Tangata o le Moana is the first book to present that history. It tells the stories of Pacific people past and present, in all areas of life - on the street, on the sports field, in the recording studio, on the political stage, and beyond. There are highs, and there are lows - from the dawn raids of the 1970s to Tana Umaga becoming first Samoan captain of the All Blacks. And alongside tales of legendary figures like Kupe and historical figures like the navigator priest Tupaia, there are previously untold stories, too - like the first-person accounts of Pacific people who visited and settled here in the 1800s, at a time when New Zealand's leaders dreamed of creating their own empire in the Pacific, or the Pacific Islands soldiers who fought and died for New Zealand in the two world wars." --Publisher description.

Subjects

• History
• Pacific Islanders > New Zealand > History
• Pacific Islanders > New Zealand > Ethnic identity

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• "A fresh and surprising illustrated book telling the story of over a thousand years of Pacific peoples in New Zealand -- millennium of exploration, encounter and cultural exchange.
• In the intervening years the country has been shaped profoundly by its dynamic relationship with the other islands of the great moana, their people and their cultures -- yet astonishingly few accounts have taken that perspective.
• The first full-length book of its kind, 'Tangata o le Moana puts Pacific' viewpoints at its centre to reveal our shared history in fresh and surprising ways. Here is the story of Pacific peoples in New Zealand -- from the great journeys of migration undertaken by the ancestors of modern Maori to the politicially explosive dawn raids of the 1970s to Tana Umaga becoming the first Samoan to captain the All Blacks, and many more.
• With contributions from Peter Adds, Melani Anae, Geoff Bertram, Janet Davidson, Gavin McLean, Cluny Macpherson, Claudia Orange, Fulimalo Pereira, Anne Salmond, Teresia Teaiwa and Graeme Whimp" -- BOOK JACKET.

ISBN

9781877385728 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2012427722

OCLC

• 764973571
• SCSB-11395736

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library