Being Pakeha : an encounter with New Zealand and the Maori renaissance

Resource Information

The work Being Pakeha : an encounter with New Zealand and the Maori renaissance represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Being Pakeha : an encounter with New Zealand and the Maori renaissance

Title remainder

an encounter with New Zealand and the Maori renaissance

Statement of responsibility

Michael King

Creator

• King, Michael, 1945-2004

Author

• King, Michael, 1945-2004

Subject

• History - Biographies - Non-Indigenous - Autobiographies
• Indigenous peoples - Pacific - Maori
• King, Michael, 1945-2004
• Maori (New Zealand people)
• Autobiographies
• New Zealand -- Social conditions
• New Zealand -- Race relations
• Historians -- New Zealand -- Biography

Genre

• Biography
• Autobiographies

Language

eng

Summary

"Michael King, half Irish, a quarter Scottish and a quarter English - was born in New Zealand. He grew up in the Pakeha New Zealand of the 1940s and 1950s, in which Britain was Home, families were Christian and nuclear, and demonstrations, inflation and racial unrest were things that occurred abroad... Unlike most New Zealands, however, he became dramatically involved in the Maori renaissance of the 1970s and 1980s. He was forced to reassess his assumptions and Maori and Pakeha culture, and to examine his conscience and that of his country on racial issues. This book if the result of that reassessment, and the story behind his Maori histories, biographies and documentaries..."--Publisher description

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

NZNB

Dewey number

993.10924

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• portraits

Index

no index present

LC call number

DU109.K56

LC item number

A3 1985

Literary form

non fiction