Tears of Rangi Experiments Across Worlds

Author/creator Salmond, Anne Author
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAuckland : Auckland University Press Chicago : Independent Publishers Group [Distributor]
Description512 p. 09.000 x 06.000 in.
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Summary Annotation "Six centuries ago Polynesian explorers, who inhabited a cosmos in which islands sailed across the sea and stars across the sky, arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand where they rapidly adapted to new plants, animals, landscapes and climatic conditions. Four centuries later, European explorers arrived with maps and clocks, grids and fences, and they too adapted to a new island home. In this remote, beautiful archipelago, settlers from Polynesia and Europe (and elsewhere) have clashed and forged alliances, they have fiercely debated what is real and what is common sense, what is good and what is right. Beginning with a fine-grained inquiry into the early period of encounters between Mori and Europeans in New Zealand (17691840), Salmond then investigates such clashes and exchanges in key areas of contemporary life waterways, land, the sea and people"--Publisher information.
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ISBN9781869408657
ISBN1869408659 (Trade Cloth) Active Record
Standard identifier# 9781869408657
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