Once were Pacific [electronic resource] : M�aori connections to Oceania / Alice Te Punga Somerville.
Publication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2012.Description: xxx, 265 pISBN:- 9780816677566 (hardcover acid-free paper)
- 9780816677573 (pbk. acid-free paper)
- 9780816677573 (e-book)
- Maori (New Zealand people) -- Ethnic identity
- Indigenous peoples -- Oceania -- History
- Maori (New Zealand people) -- Migrations -- History
- Regionalism -- Oceania
- Maori (New Zealand people) -- Intellectual life
- New Zealand literature -- Maori authors -- History and criticism
- Oceania -- Ethnic relations
- Oceania -- Emigration and immigration -- History
- New Zealand -- Relations -- Oceania
- Oceania -- Relations -- New Zealand
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- DU423.E85 T4 2012eb

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: M�aori and the Pacific -- Part I. Tapa : Aotearoa in the Pacific Region -- M�aori People in Pacific Spaces -- Pacific-Based M�aori Writers -- Aotearoa-Based M�aori Writers -- The Realm of Tapa -- Part II. Koura : The Pacific in Aotearoa -- M�aori/Pasifika Collaborations -- "It's like that with us M�aoris" : M�aori Write Connections -- Manuhiri, F�anau : Pasifika Write Connections -- When Romeo Met Tusi : Disconnections -- The Realm of Koura -- Conclusion: E Kore Au e Ngaro -- Epilogue: A Time and a Place.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.