Tāngata Ngāi Tahu / People of Ngāi Tahu: Volume Two
Authors:
Helen Brown; Michael Stevens; Ta Tipene O'Regan
Publisher:
Bridget Williams Books
ISBN:
9781990046049
Date Published:
March 2022
Pages:
352
Format:
Paperback
RRP:
$49.99
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Mō tātou, ā, mō kā uri a muri ake nei. For us and our children after us.
Tāngata Ngāi Tahu, Volume Two remembers and celebrates the rich and diverse lives of the people of Ngāi Tahu. Spanning time, geography and kaupapa, some fifty biographies bring Ngāi Tahu history into the present. The people in the book have contributed to their iwi, hapū and whānau in myriad ways: here are wāhine toa, rangatira and tohunga, community leaders, activists and scholars, social workers, politicians, fishermen and farmers, sportspeople, adventurers, weavers, performers, and many more. All are descendants of Waitaha, Ngāti Māmoe and Ngāi Tahu; united by whakapapa, they are Tāngata Ngāi Tahu.
Produced by the Ngāi Tahu Archive Team, this second volume builds on the success of Tāngata Ngāi Tahu, Volume One. With a special emphasis on mana wāhine, more than half of the biographies in Volume Two celebrate the stories of Ngāi Tahu women. The book is beautifully and generously illustrated with hundreds of photographs sources from the Ngāi Tahu archive, external institutions and whānau collections. Together these images constitute a tribal family album that is a taonga tuku iho.
Te Pae Kōrako (the Ngāi Tahu Archive Advisory Committee) has guided this publication, which is the second in a series of biographical volumes. Tāngata Ngāi Tahu / People of Ngāi Tahu, Volume Two is published by Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu with Bridget Williams Books.
About the Author
Born in West Auckland, Douglas Lloyd Jenkins grew up on the North Shore before moving to the central city; in time to observe the first wave of demolition. It was here that he grew to love local architecture and design which fuelled a career as an award-winning writer of non-fiction on the subjects of art, design and architecture. He has had columns in the New Zealand Herald, New Zealand Listener and HOME magazine. His book At Home: A Century of New Zealand Design was the Montana Book Awards Non-Fiction Winner in 2004 and The Dress Circle: New Zealand Fashion Design since 1940, which he co-authored, was shortlisted for the same prize in 2011. His most recent book Beach Life won the PANZ Best Illustrated Book Award in 2017. Douglas now lives in South Auckland with his dog. He has written widely on contemporary masculinity and LGBTQI+ subjects. Shelter is his first novel.
