JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES
JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES
JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES
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January-March 2011 <strong>JOURNAL</strong> <strong>OF</strong> <strong>EURASIAN</strong> <strong>STUDIES</strong> Volume III., Issue 1.<br />
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Fanny Wonu Veys: MANA MĀORI<br />
Author: Fanny Wonu Veys<br />
Title: Mana Māori<br />
— The Power of New Zealand’s First Inhabitants —<br />
Publisher: Leiden University Press<br />
Year of publishing: 2010<br />
Language: English<br />
Number of pages: 144<br />
ISBN: 978 90 8728 083 3<br />
http://www.lup.nl/<br />
‘Mana Māori, the Power of New Zealand’s First Inhabitants’ is a book accompanying the exhibition with<br />
the same name held at the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, the Netherlands from 16 October<br />
2010 until 1 May 2011 (http://www.rmv.nl/index.aspx?lang=en). Due to the overwhelming success, the<br />
exhibition has been prolonged until 18 September 2011.<br />
An exhibition of this importance is held for the first time in the Netherlands on this subject. The Dutch<br />
version of the book will also be the first of its kind aimed at the Dutch public. Thus it is no exaggeration to<br />
say that both the exhibition and the book fill a gap for the wide, general (Dutch) public concerning the<br />
Māori people, New Zealand’s indigenous population and their relation to the Netherlands and other<br />
Western European countries.<br />
In fact the exhibition and the book should be used in concert, they complement each other perfectly.<br />
For those who can not visit the exhibition the book represents an even greater value because the majority<br />
of the exhibited objects are incorporated into it, along with additional material.<br />
New Zealand is about seven times the size of the Netherlands and almost as large as the British Isles.<br />
2,200 kilometers of sea keep New Zealand apart from Australia. In relation to Western Europe, New<br />
Zealand is situated at the opposite side of the globe. It consists of two main islands and numerous smaller<br />
ones, and is called Aotearoa in the language of its indigenous people, the Māoris. Its spectacular landscape<br />
makes it as a favourite setting for many blockbuster films of which Peter Jackson’s ‘Lord of the Rings’<br />
trilogy is probably the most famous. For the Western Europeans it was discovered by the Dutch<br />
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