A landmark publication, Tangata Whenua by Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney and Aroha Harris portrays the sweep of Māori history from Pacific origins to the twenty-first century. Through narrative and images, it offers a striking overview of the past, grounded in specific localities and histories.
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Organised by the Northland Branch of the New Zealand Society of Authors to celebrate book week, the event's keynote speaker was Dr Aroha Harris, the co-author of Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History, which won the illustrated non-fiction prize at this year's Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Dr Harris' presentation used…
At the New Zealand Writers Week 2016, co-author of Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History Aroha Harris chaired a discussion, 'Looking Back, Looking Forward' on 12 March, with three of the book’s contributors: Arini Loader, Michael Stevens and Melissa Matutina Williams. Each of the three panel members started by sharing…
'But the most obvious characteristic of the pictures and photographs is the portrayal of Maori women in all walks of life which is refreshing to the usual male-centric dominated narratives in Maori history of the past. The ability of the authors to convey multiple stories within this book means that…
Read a wonderful recent review of Tangata Whenua in the Australian Historical Studies journal, by Kristyn Harman (Volume 46, Issue 3). 'Tangata Whenua is an extensive and significant resource that ought to be consulted by any scholars with an interest in the history of New Zealand, Maori history, histories…
Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History and Panguru and the City: Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua have been longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, in the Illustrated Non-Fiction and General Non-Fiction categories respectively. Congratulations to the authors of both books on this achievement! The shortlist will be announced on 8…
Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History is the winner of Best Resource in Secondary at the CLNZ Education awards, announced at a ceremony in Auckland last night. According to the judging panel, TW is 'in a league of its own as a resource that can be used by teachers across a…
Emeritus professor Atholl Anderson has received the prestigious 2015 Humanities Aronui Medal, awarded at a ceremony in Auckland on Tuesday 10 November. The awards ceremony celebrated top researchers across New Zealand. See the full article in the Marlborough Express here: www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/news/73863851/blenheim-academic-honoured…
A session on Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History, ‘The People and the Land’ (Sunday 13 September), was a highlight of the Going West Books & Writers Festival 2015. Author Aroha Harris and contributor Melissa Williams (Panguru and the City) had a kōrero with Tainui Stephens, broadcaster, filmmaker and teller of…
Last night, Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History by Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney and Aroha Harris, published by Bridget Williams Books, won the history section in the prestigious 2015 Ngā Kupu Ora Aotearoa Māori Book Awards. As Judge Sheeanda Field said, the awards acknowledge: ‘Māori writing about Māori, in a Māori…
Tangata Whenua is a kaupapa Maori publication in the purest sense of the word: it is Maori stories told in a multiplicity of Maori voices, but it is for everyone. ... is just one of the many wonderful things Matariki Williams had to say about Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History. See…
Helen Leach has written a detailed review of Tangata Whenua in Archaeology in Oceania. 'Tangata Whenua has much to offer the general reader as well as people trained in archaeology. It will rekindle the debate about oral traditions and archaeology, hopefully with a pan-Polynesian perspective. At the same time archaeologists…
Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History has done it again – it has been shortlisted in the 2015 Ngā Kupu Ora Aotearoa Māori Book Awards, in the Te Kōrero o Mua – History section. Also shortlisted in this section is another wonderful BWB book Panguru and the City: Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua by…
Bridget Williams Books has been awarded the New Zealand Book Industry Special Award at the 2015 New Zealand Book Trade Industry Awards, presented at a ceremony on 21 June 2015. ‘Bridget Williams Books wins this for their innovative list, and how effectively they have embraced the new digital age. They…
Leanne Tamaki and Dr Michael Stevens spoke with Morgan Godfery in 'Tangata Whenua: The Project', a panel discussion that was part of the New Zealand Young Writers Festival, Fortune Theatre, Dunedin, 6 June 2015. See the full discussion here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-5GQuvAbXU.…
Tangata Whenua has been shortlisted for the 2015 Ernest Scott Prize. The Ernest Scott Prize is awarded to work based upon original research which is, in the opinion of the examiners, the most distinguished contribution to the history of Australia or New Zealand or to the history of colonisation. The…
Atholl Anderson, Aroha Harris and Nepia Mahuika with Stacey Morrison discuss Tangata Whenua and Māori history on TV3's Re-Think. For the full episode, see here: www.tv3.co.nz/RE-THINK-Season-2-Ep-8/tabid/3692/articleID/114284/MCat/3991/Default.aspx.…
‘An eponymous tome about our tangata whenua scoops the country’s science-writing award’ – Rebecca Priestly on Tangata Whenua winning the Royal Society of New Zealand 2015 Science Book Prize (New Zealand Listener, 28 May 2015). Read the full article here: www.listener.co.nz/current-affairs/science/making-science-an-open-book.…
Aroha Harris talked with Ngaire Te Hira on Waatea News about Tangata Whenua winning the Royal Society of New Zealand 2015 Science Book Prize. Listen to the interview here: https://secure.zeald.com/uma/play_podcast?podlink=MjkzMzg=…
Philip McSweeney of Victoria University's magazine, Salient, did a glowing write-up of the Tangata Whenua event with Aroha Harris and Atholl Anderson at the Auckland Writers Festival, Saturday 16 May. 'One of my favourites was the event for Tangata Whenua, a book released last year that charts Māori history from…
'A book tracing the history of Maori from their earliest known origins to the 21st century has won the Royal Society of New Zealand 2015 Science Book Prize. Tangata Whenua: an Illustrated History was written by Dr Atholl Anderson, the late Dame Judith Binney, and Dr Aroha Harris and published…
Tangata Whenua: an Illustrated History has won the Royal Society of New Zealand 2015 Science Book Prize, announced on Friday 15 May by UK science writer Philip Ball at an event at the Auckland Writers Festival. He presented the $5,000 cash prize. The judges, Professor Jean Fleming, Professor Ken…
On archaeological grounds it’s very hard to say that this was a normal process of colonisation – that’s if you think of normal being that somebody goes out and explores, finds something, comes back and tells people, and then a large number of people decide to move to that…
‘Remember the hurihuri: A great new multi-voiced history of Maori’, Metro magazine, May 2015, reviewed by Nic Low. See full review here: www.metromag.co.nz/culture/books/tangata-whenua-an-illustrated-history-review ‘Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie once spoke of “the danger of a single story” ... In the history of Maori history, there…
Check out this fabulous review by Peter De Graaf, published in the Northland Age, 21 April. ‘If you told me you were planning to write a book capturing a people’s entire history in a single volume, I’d say you were mad, ambitious, or both. But that is exactly…
Atholl Anderson and Aroha Harris will be visiting Napier, Gisborne, Rotorua and Hamilton in April to talk about new perspectives on Māori history, drawing on their work for Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History. Shortlisted for the Royal Society of New Zealand’s Science Book Prize, and described by Sir Tipene…
Hautahi Kingi published a superb piece on Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History in The Pantograph Punch on 15 April. ‘Tangata Whenua, at long last, tells the complete history of those who made it first.’…
In the wake of Tangata Whenua's shortlisting for the Royal Society of New Zealand's 2015 Science Book Prize, Bruce Munro of the Otago Daily Times talks to Atholl Anderson about the new science underpinning his contribution to the book. Read the interview here.…
Tangata Whenua is one of five books shortlisted for the 2015 Royal Society of New Zealand Science Book Prize. The judges, Professor Jean Fleming, Professor Ken Strongman and Dr Rebecca Priestley, commented: “Tangata Whenua is a beautifully produced, well illustrated and comprehensive record of the tangata whenua. Atholl Anderson, Judith…
Tangata Whenua featured in the January issue of Air New Zealand's in-flight magazine, Kia Ora. The reviewer's verdict? "Opening this book anywhere almost guarantees you'll spend an hour lost in the byways of Maori and New Zealand history".…
Aroha Harris will talk about Tangata Whenua's new perspectives on Māori history in the Ministry of Culture and Heritage's first public history talk of 2015, Wednesday 4th of March, 12:15pm.…
Listen to Atholl Anderson and Aroha Harris's February 3 Tangata Whenua talk at the Palmerston North City Library, free on mixcloud. Access the full talk here.…
The latest edition of Te Puni Kōkiri's magazine, Kōkiri, features an interview with Tangata Whenua author Aroha Harris. TPK supported the development of Tangata Whenua.…
Paul Little reviews Tangata Whenua in the March 2015 edition of North and South, observing: "It comes as a surprise to learn that this book was conceived only 'six years ago', so vast is its reach and triumphant its execution." Little comments that the authors demonstrate "confidence and authority" in…
Visit the National Library's Facebook page for photos of the 4 February talk given by Atholl Anderson and Aroha Harris, organised and hosted by the Friends of the Turnbull Library.…
Kate Fortune reviews Tangata Whenua for the Feb-March edition of the Wellington Region Heritage Promotion Council newsletter, Heritage Today. "The text is wonderfully lucid, eminently readable, and lavishly illustrated", writes Fortune.…
A write-up of Tangata Whenua in the Bay Buzz draws attention to the book's significance for the people of Hawke's Bay. The article, published in the Jan/Feb issue of the Buzz, praises the dual use of images and text to tell the "multi-faceted story" of the Māori people, making…
Join Tangata Whenua authors Atholl Anderson and Aroha Harris at the National Library in Wellington to hear them speak about the book and their work on it.…
Tangata Whenua authors Atholl Anderson and Aroha Harris will be speaking at the Central Library in Palmerston North about the book and their work on it.…
The relevance of Tangata Whenua for the people of the Bay of Plenty was reported on before Christmas by Karla Akuhata in the Whakatane Beacon (5 December 2014) and the Opotiki News (11 December 2014).…
Bruce Munro in the Otago Daily Times reviews Tangata Whenua, calling it "ground-breaking" and "farsighted", and praising the "excellent depth and breadth of [its] erudite and insightful storytelling". Read the full review here.…
Aroha Harris spoke with Kim Hill about her work on Tangata Whenua, on Radio New Zealand's Saturday Morning, Saturday 20 December 2014. Listen to the full interview here: www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/20161857/aroha-harris-tangata-whenua…
Atholl Anderson was interviewed last weekend by Angela Crompton of the Saturday Express: ‘We wanted to focus on people … how people lived, how they formed communities. People, people, people was our emphasis.’…
Aroha Harris was interviewed last weekend by Michelle Duff of the Sunday Star Times: ‘I’ve studied it for so long I don’t become emotional about it but I have discussions with people who find it very confronting to read.’…
Arini Loader and Michael Stevens, contributors to Tangata Whenua, feature on this week's edition of 'On the Dial' with Megan Whelan. Starts 16 minutes in.…
A stirring commentary on the deep value of Māori and New Zealand history by Dr Pita Sharples (citing Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History) in today's NZ Herald. Our ancestors truly blessed us by establishing a foundation of goodwill, good faith and co-operation for our nation. It is our responsibility, and…
The following is a media release issued by the Ministry of Culture and Heritage. Ground-breaking Māori history book has Ministry support Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History, lauded as having a deep understanding of Māori history, was last year awarded funding through the annual New Zealand History Research Trust Fund Publisher…
The online response to Tangata Whenua has been phenomenal and we've already featured Morgan Godfrey's summary of the book in five Tweets. It's one of the first New Zealand books to be promoted on Twitter and here's just a few of our favourite responses to date. 'Tangata Whenua: An…
The Rotorua Daily Post has written on the publication of Tangata Whenua, under the headline 'High praise for book recording first Maori': Described by Maori Television as a book that's making waves, Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History is being called a comprehensive, one-volume history of Maori. It includes numerous stories…
The new edition of Mana Magazine features wall-to-wall coverage of Tangata Whenua, spanning editorial comments on the launch, a feature with Atholl Anderson on early origins, and a fantastic review! Opening comments from Aaron Smale's book review include: It is a rare thing to be able to say that a…
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