Music is a form of self-expression, community or national culture, political voice and ethnic identity, among many other things. This dissertation examines the way that music can be a central influence to life for women, ...

This thesis report examines a theory that Christianity has contributed to the dissipation of Māori culture including their form of religiosity. Pākehā missionaries preached the biblical view of one God, eventually erasing ...

INTRODUCTION The recent dramatic shift from widely distributed, mostly State-owned, enterprises to sparsely represented, private corporations has been viewed in the popular mind as an urban phenomenon (Leyshon and Thrift, ...

Chaslands Mistake is a prominent headland lying on the south-east Otago coast, within N.Z.M.S. sheets S183 and S184. Access is from the Balclutha-Invercargill coast road, via the Cathedral Caves track and Waipati Beach. ...

In 1973 the Labour government introduced a statutory benefit for unmarried mothers, separated and divorced women. It was called the Domestic Purposes Benefit (DPB). Although unmarried mothers were only one group covered ...

The following investigations were carried out when the writer was research assistant to the Research Expeditions sent to Western Samoa in 1953 and 1954 by the Medical Research Council of New Zealand. The members of these ...