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Redcliffs Archaeological History and Material Culture

Kerby, Georgia (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2017)

Over 140 years of excavation events at the Redcliffs site complex on the edge of Ihutai, Canterbury, has resulted in a unique material culture collection in Canterbury Museum. The site complex’s physical setting is located ...
An Archaeology of Madang Papua New Guinea

Gaffney, Dylan; Summerhayes, Glenn R. (Working Paper, 2017)
Evolutions or Revolutions? Interaction and Transformation at the 'Transition' in Island Melanesia

Cath-Garling, Stephanie (Book, 2017)
Houses, Shrines and the Social Landscape: a study of architecture on Tetepare, Solomon Islands

Hurford, Jessie (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2017)

By the late pre-contact period a distinctive cultural tradition involving skull shrine architecture, headhunting raids, and shell valuable exchange had emerged in the New Georgia archipelago of the Solomon Islands. This ...
Materialising Ancestral Madang: Aspects of pre-colonial production and exchange on the northeast coast of New Guinea

Gaffney, Dylan (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2017)

This thesis examines the nature of changing pottery production and exchange on the northeast coast of New Guinea in the pre-colonial past. Models in Melanesian archaeology suggest that the recent past, leading up to ...
Excavations on Motupore Island. (Vol 2)

Allen, Jim (Working Paper, 2017)
Excavations on Motupore Island (Vol 1)

Allen, Jim (Working Paper, 2017)
An Exploration of Health Perceptions and Practices among South Asian Descendants Living in Dunedin, New Zealand

Bailly, Hannah (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2016)

Drawing from critical medical anthropology, post-colonial theory and case-study interviews with nine people of South Asian descent living in Dunedin, this research asks whether there may be a greater demand for medical ...
Nobility or utility? Zamindars, businessmen, and bhadralok as curators of the Indian nation in Satyajit Ray’s Jalsaghar (The Music Room)

Ghosh, Gautam (Journal Article, Modern Asian Studies, 2017)

The Bengali bhadralok have had an important impact on Indian nationalism in Bengal and in India more broadly. Their commitment to narratives of national progress has been noted. However, little attention has been given to ...
Pots on the Move? The Nature of an Early Papuan Pottery Assemblage from Oposisi, Yule Island, Papua New Guinea

Sutton, Nicholas Peter (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2016)

The central concern of the present study is identifying the nature of interaction between the 2nd millennium BP communities along the Papuan South Coast that produced and used the pottery type known as Early Papuan Pottery ...
Diet and Subsistence at the Hohi Mission Station: An historical archaeozoological analysis

Russell, Tristan Christopher (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2016)

Archaeological investigations at early New Zealand mission sites provide a unique opportunity to explore a period during which much culture contact occurred between Maori and Europeans. The Hohi Mission Station, for example, ...
What Happened at the End of Lapita: Lapita to Post-Lapita Pottery Transition in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Wu, Pei-hua (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016)

This study presents a detailed Lapita to Post-Lapita sequence/transition with chronology at particular sites in west New Britain, through the medium of pottery analysis of style and production. The data allow me to address ...
A Woman's Glory: A Study Exploring Experiences of Spiritual Power and the Gendered Lives of Women in Two Pentecostal Communities in the USA and New Zealand

Bower, Sherrema (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016)

The question of whether or not feminisms can be located amongst Pentecostal and evangelical women has been widely debated in the field of women’s and gender studies (Franks, 2001; Ginsburg, 1997). Yet my research has ...
Archaeology and Shell Adzes in Prehistoric Oceania: A Revised Methodological Approach to the Descriptive Analysis of a Solomon Islands Collection

Radclyffe, Charles (Dissertation, Bachelor of Arts Honours, 2015)

This dissertation examines archaeological study of shell adzes in the Pacific. It provides a critical review of archaeological methodology and terminology used in descriptive analysis of this artefact class. It raises ...
Medical Buildings and Medical Theory: An Archaeological Investigation of Ashburton Hospital, New Zealand

Tremlett, Luke Thomas (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2016)

This research examines the extent to which hospital buildings reflect changing approaches to medical treatment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It uses Ashburton hospital as a case study, covering its initial ...
Retrospective Anthracological Analysis of Two Early Coastal East Otago Polynesian Settlements

Allen, Francesca Lesley (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2016)

Curated archaeological charcoal assemblages are a significant palaeobotanical resource capable of providing insight into the human-plant interactions of the past. This thesis tests the appropriateness of two early Polynesian ...
Archaeology and history of the Chinese in southern New Zealand during the nineteenth century : a study of acculturation, adaptation, and change

Ritchie, Neville A. (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 1986)

Amongst the thousands who swarmed into New Zealand last century in quest of gold were some 10,000 Chinese. Although they were relatively 'late arrivals', within a few years they constituted one of the largest, and certainly ...
Living in the Tension: A cross-cultural comparative study of the meaning and management of care, self-care, and wellbeing across two communities of faith-based youth workers.

Wardell, Susan Edith (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016)

This ethnographic project explored how faith-based youth workers in two communities – Moment of Truth Evangelistic Ministries (MOTEM) in Kampala, Uganda, and Canterbury Youth Services (CYS) in Canterbury, New Zealand – ...
Tawhiti Rahi: Nga Poito o te Kupenga o Toi te Huatahi - A float of the fishing net of Toi te Huatahi. A multi-disciplinary study of Māori settlement of Tawhiti Rahi, an offshore island in northern New Zealand.

Robinson, James Justin (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016)

My archaeological research addresses the question of the role constrained and circumscribed offshore islands played in the initial Polynesian colonising phase and in the subsequent indigenous Māori culture in New Zealand’s ...
Horticulture in prehistoric New Zealand : an investigation of the function of the stone walls of Palliser Bay

Leach, Helen M (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 1976)

Low stone rows and alignments were reported as early as 1904 on the coastal platform of eastern Palliser Bay. In all subsequent references it was assumed that the features were horticultural and, on the grounds of their ...