Maori Storehouses and Kindred Structures
Author(s): Elsdon Best
Elsdon Best was a prolific recorder of pre-European Maori social life and material culture. His work established him as New Zealand's foremost ethnographer of Maori society. Best based is research on rare first-hand knowledge, wide reading, informed study and discussion with Maori. His was a lifelong project underpinned by a belief that Maori were a people under threat of extinction, yet by the time of his death in 1931 Best's work had assumed new importance as it informed a Maori cultural renaissance. Today, the Elsdon Best books are accepted as classic studies. They remain a uniquely valuable record of traditional Maori culture, social customs and beliefs.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Te Papa Press
- : Te Papa Press
- : 240mm X 150mm
- : New Zealand
- : books
Special Fields
- : Elsdon Best
- : Paperback
- : 128
- : Line drawings