puff 597 Wednesday 29th
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The Tribe Has Spoken. Again. That is if people who read books, especially academic books, may be called a tribe.
Once again, in the surveys produced at the end of the year, Peter Cleave gets the thumbs up for books read in 2010.
Looking at libraries in 2010, The Oxford Picture Dictionary of Maori and The Sovereignty Game both rack up impressive statistics. The former is a standard text with consistent figures from 1979 and is the only book mentioned here where Cleave shares authorship with others. The latter was published in 1979 and now in 2011 its time has come. Or so the figures suggest. These books are from Oxford University Press and Victoria University Press respectively.
From Campus Press Maori Unpacked leads the pack with a drop to Takutai, the Foreshore and Seabed and then Rangahau Pae iti kahurangi; Research in a small world of light and shade. Not much between the last two. And Iwi Station is not far behind them.
One twist to the stats is that the OUP and VUP books are found in more libraries so it makes sense that they are better read than the Campus Press books. But perhaps for the first time the Campus Press total exceeds the total of OUP or VUP books.
Coming back to that twist in the statistics it may be that the lesson for Campus Press and its distributors is to improve marketing to libraries.With that there may be a need to promote certain titles like Maori Unpacked for reasons set out below.
Looking at sales Takutai wins hands down and the second edition, due out in the new year and looking at the new legislation on the foreshore and seabed looks set to be a winner. Maori Unpacked chugs along as do other books.
Features
Features emerging from the research are;
1 Maori Unpacked and Rangahau are in big demand in the library world. It had been known for some time that Rangahau was a well recommended text with one commentator suggesting that it is universally recommended in degree studies. The big demand in libraries for Maori Unpacked would seem to show a hunger for grammar and, possibly, an interest in the long Appendix on the case system.
2 The interest in Takutai, particularly the sales interest comes from many quarters but especially, it would seem, local and regional councils.
3 A product of the work on Takutai and on water generally by Peter Cleave has lead to an essay, Land by water; a walk through some conversations. Some commentators are seeing this as a classic essay like Cleave’s 1983 article on state-like structures in Maori society. This essay appears in Aotearoa, papers of contest, Volume Two.
4 An annotated bibliography of this author's work is due to appear later in 2011 but it seems to fall into three areas. There is the period until 1979. This includes the First Class Honours Masterate on St Stephens, the Oxford doctorate and the Oxford Picture Dictionary. There is another period concluding perhaps in the early 2000s. And then there is a new set of essays appearing since 2005. These often use Te Reo and are best seen in Cleave’s refereed Journal work and in the set of books appearing in 2011. The latter include Aotearoa, papers of contest, Volume Two and Papers to Conference Volume Two as well as Takutai, The Foreshore and Seabed, Second Edition. The research seems to suggest that there is demand for books from all three areas.
5 Most of the points above have been suggested or foreshadowed in research from earlier years. Looking ahead to 2012 it may be confirmed then that Dr Peter Cleave is the most widely read academic in New Zealand as this is what the most recent research seems to suggest. Time will tell…
New Books from Campus Press in late 2010- early 2011
Papers to Conference Volume Two by Peter Cleave ISBN 978-1-877229-48-0 All new essays from 2005 onwards.
200 pages
Aotearoa, Papers of Contest, Volume Two.by Peter Cleave ISBN 978-1-877229-49-7 All new essays from 2005 onwards.
200 pages
Takutai, the foreshore and seabed, Second Edition by Peter Cleave ISBN 978-1877229-50 Updated to include the legislation of late 2010- early 2011. 200 pages
Papers on Social Work, Fourth Edition by Peter Cleave ISBN 978-1-877229-47-3
200 pages
About Campus Press
Campus Press is the biggest academic press outside the universities in New Zealand. Campus Press was established in 1992 and for the last twelve years has been based in Palmerston North.
To buy a book
A lot of Campus Press books are sold through Wheelers Books, New Zealand. This company has excellent URL details and payment arrangements. There are never any issues with supply of books and they send a lot of books to points around the globe. To buy a Campus Press go to the URL below and order;
www.wheelers.co.nz/
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 refereed 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.
Maori Unpacked continued
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And what about possessives?
You're not being all possessive again are you Dear?
Why not?
Naaku te kuri.
The dog is mine.
Nooku te whenua.
The land is mine.
The possessives follow the cases
O or A
Set up an O Box
Part to whole phrases
te waewae o te teepu
the leg of the chair
te makawe o te maahunga
the hair of the head
te tinana o te tangata
the body of the person
Set up an A Box
Subordinance/dominance phrases
te tamaiti a te tangata
the child of the person
te teina a te tangata
the junior relation of the person
te mookai a te tangata
the pet of the person
te kai a te tangata
the food of the person
Set up an O Box
Means of Transport phrases
te waka o te tangata
the vehicle of he person
te hooiho o te tangata
the horse of the person
Set up an O Box
Dominance /subordinance phrases
te matua o te tamaiti
the parent of the child
te whenua o te tangata
the land of the person
So get onto the job, Holmes, Marlow, Bergerac or whatever your name is!
Make up a Mind Map using the Appendix on O and A.
Unpacking the four boxes
Ka haere te kuri a Hone ki te hooiho o Mere.
Hone's dog goes to Mere's horse.
Ka haere taa Hone kuri ki too Mere hooiho.
Hone's dog goes to Mere's horse.
Ka haere nga kuri a Hone ki nga hooiho o Mere.
Hone's dogs go to Mere's horses.
Ka haere aa Hone kuri ki oo Mere Hooiho.
Hone;s dogs go to Mere's horses.
Ka haere a Mere i te waka o Hone.
Mere goes in Hone's car.
Ka haere a Mere i too Hone waka.
Mere goes in Hone's car.
Ka kai a Mere raaua ko Hone i aa raaua kai.
Mere and Hone eat their food.
Ka haere a Mere ratou ko Hone ko Paora ki taa raatou paamu.
Mere, Hone and Paul go to their farm.
Ka koorero a Mere ki toona whaea.
Mere talks to her mother.
Ka koorero a Mere ki taana tamaiti.
Mere talks to her child.
Kua hoki raatou ki too raatou anoo whenua.
They have gone back to their own country.
