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A Maori community in Northland / by P.W. Hohepa ; foreword by Murray Groves.

by Hohepa, Patrick W.

Wellington [N.Z.] : A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1970.

Māori (New Zealand people) -- New Zealand -- Far North District.

Waima (Northland Region, N.Z.) -- History.

142 pages : maps ; 25 cm

PREFACE -- Ch. I. THE PLACE AND THE PEOPLE -- 1. The place -- 2. The people -- Ch. II. A BRIEF HISTORY OF WAIMA -- 1. Waima in the pre-European period -- 2. Early contacts with Europeans, 1815-1840 -- 3. The post-European period: the middle decades of the nineteenth century, 1840-1880 -- 4. The post-European period: the middle decades of the nineteenth century, 1880-1910 -- 5. The post-European period: the twentieth century revival -- Ch III. THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ORGANISATION OF THE HOUSEHOLDS AND FARMS IN WAIMA -- 1. Dwellings and amenities -- 2. Size and composition of household -- 3. household finances -- 4. Diary-farming -- 5. Wage-earning -- 6. Social security -- Ch. IV. KINSHIP AND MARRIAGE -- 1. The language of kinship -- 2. Interpersonal relations between kin -- 3. The whaamere -- Ch. V. CO-OPERATION AND CONFLICT IN WAIMA -- 1. the marae and its functions -- 2. The hui -- 3. Death and mourning -- 4. The annual cleaning of the cemetery -- 5. Co-operation and conflict -- Ch. VI. Conclusion -- Glossary of Maori terms used in text.

Based on the author's thesis this is the study of the small Māori community of Waima in the upper reaches of the Hokianga Harbour. Waima is an isolated, depressed rural valley from which emigrants increasingly flow south, typically a Hokianga community with its own distinctive and unhappy history of culture contact and economic change. The author captures the authentic flavour of Māori life in the Hokianga area today - the pecking order among siblings, the hui, the people's patois, the tangi, Social Security payments, debts at the general store, attitudes to Jehovah's Witnesses, the consumption of beer, complaints about the Department of Māori Affairs and many other aspects of the community.

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