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Books

Natural History

• Birds of Aotearoa - A Natural and Cultural History. Author: Margaret Orbell

To Maori, Birds have been a constant source of ideas and cultural metaphors. Here New Zealand's native birds are described through scientific references and an account of the ways they have been understood in Maori traditions, song and artifacts. Finalist 2004 Montana Book Awards Environment Category.

• The field guide To The birds of New Zealand. Author: Heather & Robertson

Revised edition -The only field guide to New Zealand birds officially endorsed by the Ornithological society of New Zealand. Comprehensive and easy to use.

• Powell's Native Animals of New Zealand. Author: B.G. Gill Ed.

This book can be used for the general identification of sponges, jellyfish, echinoderms, mollusks, arthropods, fish, marine mammals, bats, and some birds. Its greatest strength is in the invertebrates. Illustrations are excellent pen and ink drawings. Not recommended for birds but good for everything else. Maori names of animals are also included. At only NZ$20 it is quite good value.

• The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals. Author: King M C Ed.

The definitive work on the mammals of New Zealand.

• The Living Reef - the ecology of New Zealand's rocky reefs. Author: Andrew N, Francis M

The most remarkable insight into the coastline reefs of New Zealand published in the past 30 years. composed of 32 chapters which focus on key species of fish, animal and plant life, while also profiling our most important marine ecosystems, from the Kermadec Islands to fiordland and Antartica. Finalist in the Environment category of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2004.

• The Penguin Natural World of New Zealand. Author: Hutching Gerard

This superb book covers every aspect of New Zealand's magnificent natural history. Mammals, Birds, Fish, Invertibrates, Insects, Trees, Flowers, Shells, Rocks, Fossils, Volcanoes, Caves, Endagered Species and countless other subjects are presented in a clear and understandable way. With superb text and hundreds of stunning photographs, this is the definitive New Zealand Environment book.

• Hinewai: The Journal of a New Zealand Naturalist. Author: Hugh Wilson

A collection of newsletters from Hinewai Reserve on Banks Peninsula. Excerpts from it may be enlightening, especially while on the Banks Peninsula.

Maori

• 1000 Years of Maori History. Author: King M

Nga Iwi O te motu. In a clear but authoritative way it analyses who Maori are, where they came from, how their ancestors reached New Zealand, how their culture developed in response to New Zealand conditions, and how Maori life changed as a result of the European presence.

• Biculturalism - Reconciling Aotearoa with New Zealand; Raj Vasil; Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University, Wellington. ISBN 0-908935-44

Environment

• Environmental Histories of New Zealand. Author: Pawson, Eric; Brooking, Tom (Eds)

Environmental Histories of New Zealand presents an interdisciplinary account of one of the most rapid and extensive transformations of nature in human history: that which followed Maori and then European colonisation of New Zealand's temperate islands. Well illustrated with photographs and maps.

• Sustainable Energy. Author: Redshaw D & Dawber K

Gives a very clear view of the present situation for energy use in New Zealand and the options for the future. Clear thinking coupled with an easily understood text. Many pictures and diagrams. A good overview.

From Sara Penhale

New Zealand

• Bell, Claudia, and Matthewman, Steve. 2004. Cultural Studies in Aotearoa New Zealand: Identity, Space and Place. Oxford University Press.

• Grim, J. (Ed.) 2001. Tapu, Mana, Mauri, Hau, Wairua: A Maori Philosophy of Vitalism and Cosmos. In J. Grim (Eds.) Indigenous Traditions and Ecology. (197- 214). Boston: Harvard University Press.

• Hazelhurst, K. 1993. Introduction and Ch. 1: From resistance to co-existence, in Statecraft and Mobilization in the Maori World, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger. (pp. xiii-xxiii, 1-23)

• Flannery, Tim. 1994. The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People. New York, NY: Grove Press. (selected chapters)

• Jahnke, Huia Tomlins. 1997. Maori women and education: historical and contemporary perspectives. In TeWhaiti, P, McCarthy, M, & Durie, A (eds.) Mai I Rangiatea Maori wellbeing and development. Auckland: Auckland University Press. (96-111)

• King, M. 1997. Nga Iwi O Te Motu: 1000 years of Maori history. Aukland: Reed Books. (selected chapters)

• Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. (1991). Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. London: Zed Books. (selected chapters).

• Bishop, Russell. (1996). Collaborative Research Stories: Whakawhanaungatanga Palmerston North, New Zealand: Dunmore Press. (selected chapters)

Culture, Identity and Place in Aotearoa New Zealand.

• Barlow, C. 1991. Tikanga Whakaaro: Key Concepts in Maori Culture. Oxford University Press: Oxford.

• Davidson, J. “The Polynesian Foundation,” pp.3-27, in: Rice, G.W. (ed.) 1992. The Oxford History of New Zealand, Second Edition. Oxford University Press: Auckland.

• Ihimaera, W. 2004. Whanau II. Auckland: Reed Publishing. [A novel]

• Keenan, D. “Bound to the land: Maori retention and assertion of land and identity,’ in: Pawson, E. and Brooking, T. (eds.) 2002. Environmental Histories of New Zealand. Oxford University Press: Melbourne.

• King, M. 1983. Maori: A Photographic and Social History. Reed Books: Auckland.

• King, M. (ed.) 1992. Te Ao Hurihuri: Aspects of Maoritanga. Reed Books: Auckland. • Leather, K. and Hall, R. 2004. T_tai Arorangi: Maori Astronomy. Work of the Gods. Viking Sevenseas: Paraparaumu, New Zealand.

• McLean, M. 1992. Maori Music. Auckland University Press: Auckland.

• Mead, S.M. 1997. Landmarks, Bridges and Visions: Aspects of Maori Culture. Victoria University Press: Wellington.

• Mead, H.M. 2003. Tikanga Maori: Living by Maori Values. Huia Publishers: Wellington. • See Chapter 16: “Te Tuakiri, Te Whenua: Identity and Land,” pp.269-285.

• Patterson, J. 1992. Exploring Maori Values. The Dunmore Press: Palmerston North.

• Pendergast, M. 1994 (reprint). Te Aho Tapu, The Sacred Thread: Traditional Maori Weaving, Reed Books: Auckland.

• Reed, A.W. 2004. Reed Book of Maori Mythology. Revised by R. Calman. Reed Books: Auckland.

• Smith, H. 2002. Taiawhio, Conversations with Contemporary Maori Artists. Te Papa Press: Wellington.

• Starzecka, D.C. (ed.) 1996. Maori Art and Culture. David Bateman: Auckland.

• Walker, R. 1987. Nga Tau Tohetohe: Years of Anger. Penguin Books: Auckland. See Chapter 6: “Being Maori,” pp.127-159; Chapter 7: “A Maori Renaissance,” pp.161-170.