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Taua: Musket Wars, 'Land Wars' or Tikanga?: Warfare in Maori Society in the Early Nineteenth Century - Softcover
Musket wars, 'land wars' or tikanga (custom)? How are we to describe the destructive Maori inter-tribal warfare of the early nineteenth century?
And just what is a musket war ? Is the very term 'musket war' a misnomer? Can a 'musket war' be so defined only if wars were fought because Mari owned muskets, and for no other reason? Why were so many wars fought, especially in the early contact period? And why did the wars diminish?
Taua is the first major study of Mari warfare for decades. It asks the question: what if the nature of Mari society itself was the cause of the wars not the introduction of new and destructive military technology? Only after prolonged contact, argues Angela Ballara, did the cultural context of Maori warfare change.
Drawing on Maori writers and sources and not just on earlier Pakeha scholars, this book re-examines some fundamental questions. Ballara s fascinating new analysis is of vital importance at a time when issues of Maori land loss and redress are being debated in the public arena.
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- PublisherPenguin Group (NZ)
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0143018892
- ISBN 13 9780143018896
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages543
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Taua: Musket Wars, 'Land Wars' or Tikanga?: Warfare in Maori Society in the Early Nineteenth Century
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Penguin Group (NZ), New Zealand
(2003)
ISBN 10: 0143018892
ISBN 13: 9780143018896
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A very clean copy. When the Maori tribes obtained muskets in the early 1820s, the inter-tribal warfare which broke out resulted in major massacres and thousands of deaths. The Nga Pui tribe of the far north under the legendary Hongi Hika swept away all before it, conquering tribes as far south as the Bay of Plenty. The "musket wars" rewrote the Maori landscape, changing traditional regional power balances and depopulating whole areas of the country. As a result, when Europeans arrived, they met not healthy tribes, but often weakened local groups or even deserted landscapes. This study of Maori warfare asks, "what is a musket war" - were many of them simply traditional tribal encounters? And what was happening in Maori society at the time?. Seller Inventory # 036503
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