Amiria: The Life Story of a Maori Woman

Author(s): Amiria Manutahi Stirling

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This is the story of Amiria s life and marriage as told to Anne Salmond. Amiria was born on the East Coast at Tuparoa late last century and her story begins with her childhood spent both in her grandmother's raupo hut and the magnificent Williams homestead Kaharau. It takes the reader through her schooldays, her taumau (arranged) marriage to Eruera Stirling, farming on 'The Coast' and latter days in Auckland, where the Stirlings lived as prominent elders until their deaths in 1983.


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Anne Salmond is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. One of New Zealand's most prominent anthropologists and historians, Professor Salmond is the author of Hui- A Study of Maori Ceremonial Gatherings; Amiria- The Life Story of a Maori Woman); and Eruera- The Teachings of a Maori Elder (winner of a Wattie Book Award in 1981) which she co-wrote with Erua Stirling. Among her other acclaimed works are Two Worlds- First Meetings between Maori and Europeans, 1642-1772; Between Worlds- Early Exchanges between Maori and Europeans, 1773-1815 (winner of the Ernest Scott Prize in 1998); The Trial of the Cannibal Dog- Captain Cook in the South Seas (winner of the Montana Medal for Non-fiction in 2004); Aphrodite's Island- The European Discovery of Tahiti; and Bligh- William Bligh in the South Seas (a finalist in the 2012 NZ Post Book Awards). She received the CBE for services to literature and the Maori people in 1988 and was made Dame Commander of the British Empire for services to New Zealand history in 1995. In 2009, she was elected as a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) for her excellence in scientific research. She lives in Devonport, Auckland.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Anne Salmond; PREFACE to the new editions of Eruera and Amiria; 1. THE BOOK OF THE ANCESTOR; 2. THE BOOK OF MY LIFETIME; 3. THE BOOK OF THE RISING GENERATION; Eruera: A Discussion Anne Salmond; Notes; Glossary; Appendicies; Bibliography; Index

General Fields

  • : 9780143020127
  • : Penguin Books
  • : UNKNOWN
  • : 0.291
  • : January 2005
  • : 230mm X 153mm
  • : New Zealand
  • : November 2016
  • : books

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  • : Amiria Manutahi Stirling
  • : Paperback
  • : en
  • : 993.03092
  • : 184
  • : BxW photographs