688 pp. May 1996
paper, ISBN 978-0-8248-1975-0, $27.00
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Polynesia
Pacific
history
biography
religion |
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Redemption Songs: A Life of the Nineteenth-Century Maori Leader Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki
by Judith Binney
"Te Kooti Arikirangi was a leader of armed resistance to the colonial government of New Zealand and later the founder of the Ringatu Church, to which approximately 8,000 New Zealand Maori (2%) nominally belong.... [This] book has salvaged a fragment of unique culture from rapidly gathering obscurity. It is one of the few works on Maori syncretic religion to rest on oral tradition, and none other is written with such empathy." --Journal of World History, Spring 2000"The story [Binney] tells of this memorable leader's life is fascinating." --Pacific Magazine
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