{"product_id":"knowledge-is-a-blessing-on-your-mind-by-anne-salmond-9781869409906","title":"Knowledge Is a Blessing on Your Mind","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn te reo, the Māori language, people often speak about different “worlds” – te ao Māori and te ao Pākehā, the Māori and European “worlds” or ways of living; te ao tawhito and te ao hou, the old and new worlds, before and after European arrival; te pō, the dark world of the ancestors, and te ao mārama, the world of light, the everyday world we all inhabit.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt’s a way of naming different realities, different ways of being. In between, there’s always a space of encounter and emergence, chaotic and uncertain – te ao hurihuri, for example, the spinning world between Māori and Pākehā, the life of the ancestors and contemporary experience. That’s a difficult, but fascinating realm to navigate.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor fifty years, Dame Anne Salmond has navigated ‘te ao hurihuri’ – travelling to hui in her little blue VW Beetle with Eruera and Amiria Stirling in the 1970s, working for a university marae alongside Merimeri Penfold, Patu Hohepa and Wharetoroa Kerr in the 1980s, giving evidence to the Waitangi Tribunal on the meaning of Te Tiriti in the 2000s. From \u003cem\u003eHui\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eThe Trial of the Cannibal Dog\u003c\/em\u003e to today’s debates about the future of Aotearoa, Anne Salmond has explored who we are to each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book traces Anne Salmond’s journey as an anthropologist, as a writer and activist, as a Pākehā New Zealander, as a friend, wife and mother. The book brings together her key writing on the Māori world, cultural contact, Te Tiriti and the wider Pacific – much of it appearing in book form for the first time – and embeds these writings in her life and relationships, her travels and friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of Aotearoa and the story of one woman’s pathway through our changing land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596734087404,"sku":"9781869409906","price":65.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/e60058766acbddb0656ca663ebfdc043.jpg?v=1777956894","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/knowledge-is-a-blessing-on-your-mind-by-anne-salmond-9781869409906","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}