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Maori oral narratives, Pakeha written texts : two forms of telling history

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1987

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Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)

Indigenous LanguageOral HistoryIndigenous HeritageCultural HeritageOral PoetryEthnohistoryIndigenous StudyCultural AnthropologyIndigenous PeopleAnthropologyCultural HistoryLanguage StudiesCultural StudiesSocial SciencesNarrative RepresentationMaori Oral Narratives

Abstract

Discusses Maori oral traditions, and the problems involved in incorporating genealogy, whanau and whakapapa with written history. Considers the priorities of the narrators, and their perceptions of their world.