Description |
448 pages ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
Summary |
"Nga Pepeha a nga Tipuna is a collection of more than 2500 'sayings of the ancestors'. Neil Grove and Hirini M Mead spent more than twenty years collecting and compiling these pepeha from all over New Zealand - inviting comment and contributions from all who read and used their early volumes." "Pepeha are not just proverbs; the term includes charms, witticisms, figures of speech and boasts. Neither are they historical relics; they feature in the formal speeches heard every day on the marae, and in the oral literature handed down from past generations. The pepeha also provide a rich source of language. Their use of metaphor and their economy of words show language that enriches the textbook Maori of today."--BOOK JACKET |
Notes |
Includes index |
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List of Maori sayings, alphabetically arranged with translations and comments in English |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 427-432 |
Notes |
Sayings in Māori; translation and explanations in English |
Subject |
Folk literature, Maori -- Translations into English.
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Maori language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
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Proverbs, Maori.
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Genre/Form |
Controlled vocabularies.
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Author |
Grove, Neil, 1916-1999.
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LC no. |
2002318272 |
ISBN |
086473462X paperback |
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0864733992 |
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