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Books of Mana

New Zealand non-fiction book

Summary

Books of Mana: 180 Māori-Authored Books of Significance is a New Zealand non-fiction book edited by Jacinta Ruru, Angela Wanhalla, and Jeanette Wikaira that celebrates over two centuries of printed Māori books. The genesis of the book was a 2017 meeting between the Royal Society of New Zealand and Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga as part of the former's 150th anniversary, intending to build deeper relationships with Māori researchers and Māori communities. The resulting project, Te Takarangi, selected first 150 landmark non-fiction works, with a further 30 books released over the last five year at the project's fifth anniversary. The book features essays framing these texts as treasured cultural items.

From the Wikipedia article “Books of Mana”, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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