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The Lore of the Whare-wananga (Paperback)
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The Lore of the Whare-wananga (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Anthropology
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Stephenson Percy Smith (1840-1922) arrived in New Zealand as a boy,
and soon became fascinated by Maori culture. After retiring in 1900
from his career as a government surveyor, Smith devoted himself to
the study of the Maori and co-founded the Polynesian Society, which
published this two-volume study in 1913-15. The book contains the
Maori text of an important body of beliefs and traditions which had
been committed to writing over fifty years earlier, when the young
W. H. Whatahoro had acted as scribe for a group of senior elders
concerned to preserve this ancient and sacred knowledge. Only long
afterwards was Whatahoro willing to divulge it to Europeans, and he
personally assisted Smith with the translation provided here.
Although Smith's interpretative notes and 'comparative mythology'
agenda are typical of their time, this pioneering work laid
foundations for later research. Volume 1 focuses on the gods and
creation myths.
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