James Herrie Beattie: Traditional Lifeways of the Southern ..., Porirua in Porirua, Wellington for sale

Some fading to spine.; This copy signed by the editor,"Atholl Anderson / 14.3.94". 636 pages. Page dimensions: 230 x 155mm."Journalist and researcher Herries Beattie worked with Southern Maori for almost fifty years and produced many books. With a strong sense that traditional knowledge needed to be recorded, in 1920 he interviewed people from Foveaux Strait to North Canterbury and from Nelson and Westland, with Otago Museum support. He then transcribed notebooks lent to him by his informants, visited the Museum with them, recording southern names for fauna and artefacts, travelled to traditional sites, and consulted the work of earlier researchers. Finally he worked his findings up into the systematic notes which eventually became MS 181 in the Hocken Library, a highly valued but increasingly fragile treasury of knowledge."
James Herrie Beattie: Traditional Lifeways of the Southern Maori: The Otago University Museum Ethnological Project, 1920
Author
James Herrie Beattie
Title
Traditional Lifeways of the Southern Maori: The Otago University Museum Ethnological Project, 1920
Publisher name
University of Otago Press / Otago Museum (1994), Dunedin
Shipping time
2 - 5 days
Publication year
1994
Edition
First edition
Binding type
Soft cover
Listing condition
Used
Item condition
Very good
Vendor name
Renaissance Books
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Key words
New Zealand History
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