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Whare Karakia: Maori Church Building, Decoration and Ritual in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1834-1863
Richard Sundt
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Hardcover. Richard Sundt draws on a range of primary materials to chronicle early Maori church building in New Zealand for the first time. The book focuses on the Anglican/Church Missionary Society churches that dominated the period. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1MBN; ACBK; AMC; AMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 268 x 192 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1025.
Soon after the missionaries arrived in nineteenth-century New Zealand, Maori began converting to protestant Christianity in large numbers. Without the manpower or materials to build their own churches, missionaries largely relied on Maori to build houses of worship. As a result, the early churches drew on strands from the British ecclesiastical tradition as well as elements from Maori art and architecture to produce a distinctive and arresting new style. The last of these whare-style churches was destroyed when the Rangiatea church at Otaki burned down in 1995. In this book, Richard Sundt draws on a range of primary materials to ... Read more
Soon after the missionaries arrived in nineteenth-century New Zealand, Maori began converting to protestant Christianity in large numbers. Without the manpower or materials to build their own churches, missionaries largely relied on Maori to build houses of worship. As a result, the early churches drew on strands from the British ecclesiastical tradition as well as elements from Maori art and architecture to produce a distinctive and arresting new style. The last of these whare-style churches was destroyed when the Rangiatea church at Otaki burned down in 1995. In this book, Richard Sundt draws on a range of primary materials to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Auckland, New Zealand
ISBN
9781869404567
SKU
V9781869404567
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Ref
99-12
About Richard Sundt
Richard Sundt is associate professor in art history at the University of Oregon. He specialises in Medieval Architecture, Ancient Architecture and Pacific Art and Architecture. He has published extensively on gothic architecture and, since 1997, has been researching early Maori churches. He continues to undertake site and archival work in Austria on the former Franciscan Church and Wallseerkapelle at Enns. ... Read more
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