Transgressing tikanga
Subtitle: captured by Māori : first-hand accounts 1816-1884
By: Trevor Bentley
Publisher: Potton & Burton
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Nelson, New Zealand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781988550183
Subjects: Maori (New Zealand people); First contact with Europeans; History; Culture conflict; Prisoners; Social conditions; Social life and customs; Frontier and pioneer life; Race relations; Colonies; Mauhere; Tikanga; Tikanga tuku iho; Taipūwhenuatanga; Noho-ā-iwi
Other titles: Captured by Māori :
Description: "A collection of 20 first-hand accounts written by Europeans who were captured by Māori between 1816 and 1884. These Pākehā men and women were seized when they either committed blatant acts of aggression or unknowingly transgressed tikanga Māori (customary law), for which utu was required"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: John Rutherford, Tokomaru Bay, East Coast, 1816; title: Joseph Price, Stewart Island, 1824; title: Daniel Tyerman, Whangaroa, 1824; title: John Atkins, Whakatāne, 1829; title: George Budd, Ōpōtiki, Bay of Plenty, 1834; title: John Guard, Taranaki Coast, 1834; title: John Harewood, Port Nicholson (Wellington), 1835; title: Frederick Hunt, Kāpiti and Manawatū, 1841; title: Maria Bennett, somewhere on the New Zealand coast, 1841; title: Mary Jane Brigg, Taranaki, 1862; title: H.M. Shepherd, Piako River, Thames, 1864; title: Herbert Meade, Taratoa Village, Taupō, 1865; title: Thomas Grace, Ōpōtiki, Bay of Plenty, 1865; title: Abraham Bennett White, Whakatāne, 1865; title: James Curlett, Bay of Plenty and Waikato, 1867; title: John Marshall, Chatham Islands, 1868; title: Maria Morris, Poverty Bay, 1868; title: Caroline Perrett, Taranaki, 1874; title: Charles Hursthouse, King Country, 1883; title: Charles Browne, King Country, 1884.