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5%OFFAlice Te Punga Somerville - Once Were Pacific: Maori Connections to Oceania - 9780816677573 - V9780816677573
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Once Were Pacific: Maori Connections to Oceania

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Description for Once Were Pacific: Maori Connections to Oceania Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 b&w photo. BIC Classification: 1M; HBJM; JFFN; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.

Native identity is usually associated with a particular place. But what if that place is the ocean? Once Were Pacific explores this question as it considers how Māori and other Pacific peoples frame their connection to the ocean, to New Zealand, and to each other through various creative works. Māori scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville shows how and when Māori and other Pacific peoples articulate their ancestral history as migratory seafarers, drawing their identity not only from land but also from water.

Although Māori are ethnically Polynesian, and Aotearoa New Zealand is clearly a part of the Pacific region, in ... Read more

In this sustained treatment of the Māori diaspora, Te Punga Somerville provides the first critical analysis of relationships between Indigenous and migrant communities in New Zealand.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816677573
SKU
V9780816677573
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Alice Te Punga Somerville
Alice Te Punga Somerville (Te Ātiawa) is senior lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, where she teaches Māori, Pacific, and Indigenous writing in English.

Reviews for Once Were Pacific: Maori Connections to Oceania
"Alice Te Punga Somerville’s Once Were Pacific is the first major study of how Māori and Pacific people talk to each other in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Oceania. It is a splendid book, remarkably lucid, insightful, comprehensive, and accessible."—Albert Wendt, author of Leaves of the Banyan Tree "Once Were Pacific will help us to push beyond orthodox understandings of complex ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Once Were Pacific: Maori Connections to Oceania


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