Te Ika a Maui
Te Ika a Maui
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GBPReverend Richard Taylor (1805–1873) was an English missionary, who wrote extensively on Maori culture and the plant and animal life of New Zealand. Taylor graduated from Queens' College, Cambridge in 1828 and was ordained as an Anglican priest the same year. After serving as a curate in the Isle of Ely, Taylor was appointed as a missionary to New Zealand for the Church Missionary Society. He arrived in Australia in 1836 and landed in New Zealand in 1839. Taylor quickly became a peacekeeper between the different Maori tribes in his district. This volume, first published in 1855, provides a detailed account of Maori mythology and culture with a description of the plant life, animal life and geology of the North Island. Taylor strongly condemns contemporary (nineteenth-century) attitudes to Maori culture and demonstrates the complexity of their society in this sympathetic book.
Product details
August 2010Paperback
9781108017220
530 pages
215 × 142 × 30 mm
0.7kg
65 b/w illus. 8 colour illus. 1 map
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Mythology
- 3. Mythology continued
- 4. Tapu
- 5. Whare-Kura
- 6. Fishing ceremonies
- 7. Customs relating to the dead
- 8. Tinirau
- 9. Wakatauki, or proverbs
- 10. Songs
- 11. Personal ornaments
- 12. Dreams
- 13. Amusements
- 14. Origin, as traced by language
- 15. History
- 16. The geology of New Zealand
- 17. Climate
- 18. Native chiefs
- 19. Samuel Marsden
- 20. Church
- 21. Hongi
- 22. Te Rauparaha and Rangihaeata
- 23. Hone Heke
- 24. Means of support
- 25. Natural history
- 26. Botany
- 27. Hints to intended emigrants
- Appendix
- Index.
