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Nga Pepeha a Nga Tipuna: The Sayings of the Ancestors

Nga Pepeha a Nga Tipuna: The Sayings of the Ancestors

Mead, Hirini Moko
Grove, Neil

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Literary CriticismLinguisticsMythology & Folklore

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ISBN10: 086473462X
ISBN13: 9780864734624
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Published: Apr 1 2004
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.84
Height: 1.03 Width: 6.66 Depth: 9.54
Language: English
This collection contains more than 2,500 pepeha, or sayings of the ancestors, that were gathered and compiled from all over New Zealand over a 20-year period. More than just proverbs, pepeha include charms, witticisms, figures of speech, and boasts, and they are featured in the formal speeches heard every day on the marae and in the oral literature handed down from past generations. These expressions provide a rich source of vocabulary, using metaphor and an economy of words to show language that enriches the Maori of today.

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