Papers to Conference

Papers to Conference




Peter Cleave












A new collection of old work.





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Introduction

The present collection starts with a paper about Samoan and Maori. That paper is seven years old but is the most recent here. People are writing to me about older material rather than more recent work. So this collection of older material is intended to meet present demand.

I am not sure that this is the right approach. The references in the collection are sometimes well out of date. Sometimes it all seems to be from another day. Some of the debates seem quaint in hindsight and so on.

Having said that, some of the papers , the opening one for example, seem more useful today than when they were written. For reasons that escape me the last essay on literacy seems to be opening more doors now than then. I even wonder now whether it is about literacy. Whatever that paper is about it has drawn a lot of comment.

One debate that may not be quaint or out of date may be the one discussed in the review of Francis Pound and Wystan Curnow from the early nineties. We might well ask what happened to this discussion. We might well also ask what the conditions for a talk like this are in 2007.

The essay on the Pa Maori which is really just a review of Best's book has always seemed to me to leave questions unanswered in the wider literature and I still think that the idea of Kai signs might be worthwhile.

There is, I suppose, a nod to other work that I find really interesting such as that discussed in Native Voice. Some of the journal work in Aotearoa, especially that found in Illusions in the nineties is, I think, important.

The discussion of o and a, the so-called case system in Maori is here through demand. This does go with a lot of other publishing in 2007. It is also, I think, a discussion of commentators which is unusual in this area. By contrast to the the work on literacy and the Pa Maori the social work papers won prizes and were published in international collections. In this sense the collection is a mix of the known and the obscure. I hope this makes up a little for the age of the collection,

Peter Cleave,
Wolfson College
2007






CONTENTS


1 Strengthening language: some more thoughts on Maori and Samoan
2007

2 Whatever happened to the Pa? Paper to the Social Anthropology Conference, Palmerston North, 1992

3 Native Voice, Illusions, 26.

4 FRANCIS POUND: HISTORY, ART AND THE SEMI-COLON, Paper to Applied Social Science noho marae at Taita in March 1996.

5 Fields of light, fields of pain; small group work in social work education in Aotearoa/ New Zealand. Following a paper to the International Federation of Social Workers in 1999.

6 On teaching o and a. Following a paper to the Sociology Department, Waikato University in 1980.

7 An ethic of empathy. Following a paper to the International Federation of Social Workers in 2001

8 What do we know about the mark on the wall? A paper written in the early nineties and presented on the internet in 2007.

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