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Peter Cleave at the London

Peter Cleave on guitar and vocals at the London on George Street Palmerston North- Fridays and Saturdays 6- 8.30pm. The London is one of New Zealand's best restaurants. Come and eat. The gig goes into its second month. It started with a show called Peter Cleave aqnd the British Invasion to go with the theme of the London. Beatles, Stones, Van Morrison and the like and it carries on from there.

Hotaka
Monday 11th


Kaupapa koorero moo te raa nei
Rangitaanenuirawa

Rangahau
He aha ngaa mea hou i Rangitaane Paa? He koorero mo Whakapai Hauora me eetahi mea ki Rangitaane Paa.

Subject of the day
Rangitaanenuirawa

Analysis
What are the new things at Rangitaane Pa? A discussion about Whakapai Hauora and other things at Rangitaane Pa.
http://www.rangitaane.iwi.nz/
Aotearoa: The Collection
The carvers have come up with the idea of a whare to house these ten volumes by Peter Cleave and this will have inlays of pounamu and/or jasper. Aotearoa: The Collection is being ordered as a celebrity gift and is one of a kind in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
ISBN
978-1-877229-45-9

Retail NZD 750.00
Aotearoa Waka question of the day
The Hobbit- would it not be better to take a long term view, get onside with the unions and then come back to film making. Going ahead with Hobbit without the support of the unions is asking for trouble long term even though it might have short term benefits.

Aotearoa: The Collection
The carvers have come up with the idea of a whare to house these ten volumes by Peter Cleave and this will have inlays of pounamu and/or jasper. Aotearoa: The Collection is being ordered as a celebrity gift and is one of a kind in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
ISBN
978-1-877229-45-9

Retail NZD 750.00
Maori Unpacked from the beginning- by request
Maori Unpacked
Second Edition
Peter Cleave
ISBN
978-1-877229-74-9
Campus Press
27B Dorset Cres
Hokowhitu
Palmerston North
Introduction
The wider language family to which Maori belongs stretches from Madagascar to Easter Island. This reflects the voyaging traditions of the Maori and other peoples in the group. These languages are sometimes called the Austronesian languages and they arch over Australia from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific.

A more local grouping of languages is found in Eastern Polynesia from Easter Island to Hawaii to Aotearoa- New Zealand. This set of languages is similar to but different enough to be distinct from languages spoken in Central Polynesia such as Samoan and Tongan. Closer still there are likenesses between Cook Islands Maori and the Maori spoken in Aotearoa- New Zealand. Within the country there are slight differences in dialect but people understand one another.

The language is characterised by a case system. This is like but not exactly the same as the gender system found in European languages like French. This system is set out in the main body of Maori Unpacked and then followed up with an extensive appendix. Also distinctive is the VSO structure of the language, the sequence of Verb-Subject-Object and this is looked at in various ways in Maori Unpacked.

In 1987 Maori became an official language of New Zealand. In 1840 at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi there were Maori and English versions. Maori were given control of their own treasures or taonga and later the Maori language, te reo Maori was claimed to be one of these treasures or gifts.

Between 1840 and the mid 1970s language loss occurred in a major way. In the 1860s English became the language of instruction in the schools and there began a long period of decline after that. The language claim to the Treaty of Waitangi Tribunal in the early and mid 1980s show a response to that decline.

The tribunal released its report on the claim in 1986. It recommended five ways forward. The first was to pass laws allowing te reo Maori to be used in courts and dealings with local and central government. There were also recommendations to establish a statutory body to 'supervise and foster the use of the Maori language', examine the teaching of te reo Maori and 'ensure that all children who wish to learn Maori should be able to do so', recognise and protect te reo in broadcasting and ensure that speaking both Maori and English be a necessary or desirable requirement for certain public service positions.

This, the third edition of Maori Unpacked may be of use to people in the five areas set out above but it is also intended as a general introduction for people within and outside of Aotearoa- New Zealand. There are many other books which are very useful starting with the Dictionary of Maori by Henry Williams. A selection of grammars and dictionaries are in the Bibliography at the end of Maori Unpacked.

Studies in 1973 and 1998 by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research and Te Puni Kokiri respectively indicated that language retention has not been an easy task. Iwi radio, Maori Television and, perhaps, the use of books like those mentioned may all be important.

Maori Unpacked takes a word by word approach. The reader is shown what each word is, a noun, a verb, an adjective or whatever. The book may be a useful tool, a way in to the language.

Maori Unpacked has been written in a way that intends to make grammar interesting and fun to use. At the same time this book is also a primer for people wanting to learn the language in a systematic way.

There are several Appendices meant to throw light on what has gone before and a glossary of Maori words.

Kia pai oo koutou na haerenga aa reo,
May your language journeys be good,

Peter Cleave

Aokautere

2009

Isis: the dancing tramp by Benjamin Drum continues
Part Six
The paper trail

Wolfgang thinks of how to embarrass the ex- Stasi in Europe. He wants to get out of prison, he wants some financial reward for what he has gonr through. Underneath he wants revenge.

Something, he thinks, that rakes up the past and shows people in Europe what the Stasi used to do. Something of such embarrassment value that it can exact a ransom that would free him and pay money.

Simon sits with Edmond, the Tramp, and goes over the papers. The papers come from a lawyer's office in London. There are about thirty pages in total. Some of these are legal gobbledygook but some of them are well put together and make sense.

It is information about the reading of a will. Who, what, where and when. It is, the papers suggest, in the Tramp's interest to attend. Simon sees no other way but for them to go down. Sam is fascinated by all of this and will not stay away.

On the appointed day Simon, Sam and the Tramp go to London on the train. Simon tries to tidy the Tramp in the rest room at Oxford Station. It does not really work.

The will is read in the lawyer's office. This is the same lawyer that employs the PI. The offices are well appointed but discreet. Th Tramp cannot sit for long and goes to the window. He twitches occasionally. Simon can tell that he is trying not to dance.

William, the lawyer tries not to notice the way the Tramp carries on. On the arrival of the group he has asked that the Tramp sign something to say that he agrees that Simon can be there and ask questions on his behalf. Sam is allowed to be in the room but asked not to comment.

There are papers to read and sign. These are taken away by Simon, Sam and the Tramp. Sam suggests that the Tramp comes around to the Boathouse for a meal so that they all have time to sit down and go over the papers.

Simon has taken up badminton partly to get away from Dave Walker and his team sports. He can play badminton on his own with just one partner. The upshot is that he is now quite fit.

He is getting on better with his mother. He does not mind when she asks him and Sam to lunch at her college. Simon appreciates, or at least he thinks he does, that the business of Sam wanting to get married gives his mother something to think about.

Wolfgang sends out the message. A snatch. Talk to the Ringmaster, talk to the man with the private zoo in Bogota he says. Get ready for media releases after the snatch. At the least get ready to threaten some media action. Start dropping hints of major embarrassments to come. Senior diplomats and statesmen involved. That sort of thing.

Simon has a new bike. He managed to buy it with the proceeds from the last case. He is thankful to his father Paullie for securing some cash for Isis Investigations at the eleventh hour..

Simon wondered if the Don was involved in the business of the Tramp. Or at least wondered about how much he knew about this sort of thing. The Don was in Cambridge for a couple of weeks to attend a lecture series about a topic he was addressing in the last chapter of a book he was writing.

Sam is still texting. She keeps in contact with people around the world on a minute by minute basis. Sam was an information centre a clearing house for data from all over.

She is dressing a little more sedately. This means that now Sam is merely colourful and not loud. More skirts than slacks now though. The marriage business is getting to her in various ways and she is getting older so the more subdues style of clothing is understandable.

Sam still enjoys helping Simon with job sheets and the like. Her interest in Isis Investigations is unflagging. Part of this is to do with her feeling and support for Simon but part of it is a genuine interest in the cases.

She is still doing Tai Chi outside every morning. It is a nice quiet time for her. There is only the plop of a vole and sometimes the Tramp to disturb her at that hour. Also the ever-present angler these days.

Simon and Sam are talking about moving out of the Boathouse after they are married. This is yet another reason for Simon's prevarication. There is for him, no point at all to moving out.

The Boathouse is home for him whereas for Sam it is altogether too airy and hard to keep tidy. Simon thinks this is a bit rich, Sam not being one to tidy things anyway.

Sam has gone back to her roots and rediscovered Caribbean food. This is a bit tricky when put together with her newly found business of being a vegan. But she was perservering.

Sam's best mate these days was a lady Sam had met at a hairdresser's in Summertown. Sally. Sam going to a hairdresser was itself remarkable and a symptom of the changes she was going through.

The Ringmaster made contact with circus people in different parts of the world including South America and a country near the Urals. He was recruiting. There was a job to do.
Papers on Social Work 4th Edition by Peter Cleave has been released by Campus Press, There is a discussion of Whanau Ora the New Zealand government's strategy for social work announced in April-May 2010. There is a revisiting of the theme of restorative justice. All this and the classic, prize winning essays on social work education and value systems that have made Papers on Social Work one of the best selling books in the Campus Press set, internationally and locally.


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About the author.
It is said that Peter Cleave has more books in New Zealand Libraries than any other author. Beginning as a collaborator on The Oxford Picture Dictionary of Maori in 1979 there has been a consistent pattern of a book published, an article in a referred journal and then a radio commentary repeated over a long period. With this pattern of published work have come the prizes; the First Class Masterate from Auckland University and a Commonwealth scholarship to the University of Oxford, the Phillip Bagby Scholarship and Rhodes Foundation funds while doing the Oxford Doctorate, the chair of the college common room and on from these to taking the prizes for best paper at conferences like the International Federation of Social Workers in Montreal in 2000.

Peter Cleave is without peer at the meeting place of language, culture and criticism, locally and internationally and this is seen in the sale of his books to libraries in New Zealand and Australia and around the world.

At the same time Peter Cleave, a former captain of the Manurewa High School First Fifteen in South Auckland, works on community radio and touches base with working people. He left school to work on the MV Tofua, a Banana Boat and began to learn about the Pacific, something he is still doing.

About Campus Press
Campus Press is the biggest academic press outside the universities in New Zealand. It was established in 1992 and for the last twelve years has been based in Palmerston North. Campus Press mostly supplies libraries.

Papers on Social Work, 4th Edition follows other releases in 2010 like Takutai: the Foreshore and Seabed, New Zealand’s most topical book with implications for US, European and other coastlines. ISBN 978-1-877229-46-6 See the attachment for the cover.



Takutai, the foreshore and seabed by Peter Cleave gives an historical background and then an analysis of the 2004 Foreshore and Seabed Act and the 2009 Ministerial Review. There is a wide range of examples of co-governance and co-management by iwi and councils of the foreshore and seabed from around Aotearoa/New Zealand. International case studies are also given. The Conclusion sets the scene for the Repeal of the Act and the introduction of new legislation in 2010.

What the critics had to say about the advance article;

one of the most well-conceived discussions of the present state of the Act that exists in print anywhere. …an extremely useful contribution not only to academic discourse, but to issues affecting the national life of the country.

Professor Paul Moon

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Full Review of Peter Cleave’s Ten Volume Set

By Paul Moon

July 2009

The very nature of academic publishing is that it serves a niche market, and in a country as small as New Zealand, that niche can be so narrow that some books probably never see the light of day because they are simply uneconomic to produce. So when a ten-volume set of books is released, written by Professor Peter Cleave – one of New Zealand’s respected academics – attention is bound to be aroused by the scale of the venture, and by the promise of a substantial body of content.

The work’s opening volume comprises a collection of articles, some of which are new, and some of which are revised versions of existing articles that Cleave has written or presented. The relevancy of the work is underscored by the first paper, which contains suggested options for dealing with the vexed issue of the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004. The Government has indicated that it will reach some conclusions on this matter within the next two months, but regardless of what is decided, it will be interesting to see the extent to which Cleave’s recommendations are reflected in Government policy, and for academics to debate some of the themes raised long after any settlement has been made at a political level. This article stands out as being the most detailed in this volume, and certainly one of the most well-conceived discussions of the present state of the Act that exists in print anywhere. For this piece alone, the first volume in this collection makes an extremely useful contribution not only to academic discourse, but to issues affecting the national life of the country.

Other articles in this volume focus on issues surrounding Maori language – its survival, its transition from an oral to a written language, and its re-emergence as an oral and written language. To this is added a highly original and possibly even provocative piece on conceptual interpretations of pa; a reflection on issues associated with the 1981 Springbok rugby tour to New Zealand, and concludes with a series of brief but brilliant articles which tackle a variety of culturally-charged concepts, and which, among much else, challenge the reader’s understanding of meanings associated with them.

From a collection of articles, Cleave then provides in the second volume of this collection a book. Starting points? A discussion of contemporary Maori society and culture, is primarily about New Zealand historiography, into which is injected a broad range of arguments and perspectives relating to issues such as culture, identity, tradition and modernity, and the media. One of the great strengths of this volume is the extent to which Cleave is able to draw on international material and examples to illuminate his arguments, without the reader ever getting the sense that he is being overwhelmed by comparative examples from other countries. It is a difficult balance to establish, but when handled as masterfully as in Starting Points? The benefits are immediately apparent. The theme of literacy raised in the first volume reappears briefly in this one, but in a substantially different context, with a strong connection with the way in which history works in cultures that had/have strong oral components. In the central sections of this volume is a series of analyses of the works of other writers, in which Cleave adopts the format of quoting passages from articles, and then providing a commentary on them. This is an approach to criticism that is too seldom utilised. In the case of this volume, it has enabled Cleave to deconstruct and then reconstruct ideas and themes, using these sources as interchangeable building blocks – able to be assembled in a variety of forms according to the writer’s perspectives.

Following on from Starting Points? is the third edition of one of Cleave’s seminal works: Rangahau pae iti kahurangi: Research in a small world of light and shade. This work, on themes and approaches to research in a broadly Maori context, has become a recommended text book for many tertiary course around the country, and draws heavily on traditional concepts of learning and understanding as part of the basis for one of the frameworks of research. The traditional is not closed off from critique, however, and Cleave’s great strength in this area is his ability to combine an in-depth cultural knowledge with recent scholarship on research, producing insightful and useful conclusions for anyone engaged in this area of study.

Another third edition in this collection is Papers on Social Work. His volume is made up of seven papers dealing with subjects from the more standard ones, such as ethics, to the some unlikely choices, such as the city space and social work, and the thematically-related article on places of inquiry. Yet, whether predictable or otherwise, Cleave brings new insights and challenging perspectives to the reader. Even the most experienced social work practitioner would be bound to have the perceptions of their profession augmented as a result of reading this book and absorbing some of its ideas.

Papers on Social Work is followed by the 244-page volume Papers on Language. Made up of thirteen articles, this work has Cleave again drawing on a useful quantity of international scholarship, and revealing why he is so highly-regarded in the academic community. There are too few writers in this country capable of combining material from so many different disciplines and in a way that produces such a wide variety of perspectives. Again, there is some material here that appears elsewhere, but its precise employment this volume avoids any sense of repetition. A few of the shorter articles in this volume would be suited mainly for teachers of te reo, but otherwise, the tenor of the works as a whole is well-suited to the general academic reader.

The next book in this collection is the 197-page What do we know about the mark on the wall? Images, rules and prior knowledge. As for its subject, Cleave opens with the teasing line: ‘As the author I still have difficulty saying what his book is about’. But rather than answer with a pithy summary, Cleave allows the ideas contained in this work to speak for themselves – no more, no less. Themes about the meaning of ideas, place, and memory compete with topics on historiography, sociolinguistics, and social geography, among many others. This is probably the most challenging book in the collection. Cleave moves, sometimes with great speed, from one topic to another, often leaving just hints of whole new areas of potential exploration. The reader might feel settled with an idea, and then in the next paragraph, Cleave might challenge that idea from several angles, before hauling the topic elsewhere, with a series of careful thematic links. There is no stated topic for this book, and nor ought there to be. It is like a rhapsody, with different motifs surfacing at various points, connected by very little at times, yet, at the conclusion, it all seems to have a link of sorts to the idea of knowledge. This is possibly one of the most satisfying yet challenging works in the collection.

Te Pu Tapere- the impulse to perform, formerly known as Depot Takirua, is the third edition of this work, and focuses mainly on the electronic media. At 204 pages, it is as substantial a work as any of its companion volumes in this collection, and for those studying film and television in New Zealand, it would be indispensible. This most certainly ought to be a prescribed text for all media students. The portrayal of Maori in film and television comes in for close scrutiny here, and Cleave seizes on several deficiencies and stereotypes in the way culture is presented in popular culture. The chapter on Jane Campion’s The Piano is one of the outstanding portions of this book, and as all the other chapters, offers insights that hitherto have not been available to readers interested in these areas of study. Some of the essays in this work date back to the 1990s, but have been revised where appropriate to maintain their currency.

Iwi Station: A Discussion of Print, Radio, Television, and the Internet in Aotearoa/ New Zealand also has a string media focus, as the title suggests. However, in keeping with the general approach of the other volumes in this collection, Cleave has added elements of history, sociology, and anthropology into the mix. And instead of merely being descriptive about the topics he has chosen, Cleave continually probes and questions to elicit deeper meanings behind them. This is most certainly a text that should be compulsory reading for every journalist and person involved in the media in New Zealand. In particular, it lifts the lid on the sorts of conceptual developments in thought that have led to the status the media currently has in New Zealand.

This collection, coming out as a single set, is unique in New Zealand academic writing. But the format and quantity side, the lasting value of these works is in the ideas they express and the changes in perception that they will bring about for the reader. Cleave deserves full praise for the contribution he has made in these works to the intellectual conversation about New Zealandness.

Paul Moon is Professor of History at Te Ara Poutama, the faculty of Maori Development at AUT University.

There are ten books in the basic Campus Press set. All of these are 200 pages or more in length. Terms of Trade are that the books are available from Campus Press for 57.00 NZD as individual titles or for 400.00 NZD for the Collection.

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978-1-877229-35-0 Aotearoa, papers of contest, Third Edition

978-1-877229-32-9 Maori Unpacked Second Edition

978-1-877229-37-4 Iwi Station Second Edition

978-1-877229-39-8 Papers on Language Third Edition

978-1-877229-42-8 Papers on Social Work Third Edition

978-1-877229-43-5 Rangahau pae iti kahurangi Third Edition

978-1-877229-44-2 What do we know about the mark on the wall Third Edition

978-1-877229-43-5 Te Pu Tapere- the Impulse to perform, formerly titled, From the Depot Takirua, Third Edition

978-1-877229-41-1 Papers to conference Fourth Edition

978-1-877229-38-1 Starting Points


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