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Stories Without End

Essays 19752010

JUDITH BINNEY Essays 1975-2010 STORIES WITHOUT END

Judith Binney
If we who live in the present in Aotearoa can discuss our shared history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, then we may gain from the past. If we cannot do this, then we will have learnt nothing from the past and we will have exchanged nothing with each other. Judith Binney Judith Binneys work spans nearly forty years of historical endeavour that began with the awardwinning biography of the missionary Thomas Kendall, The Legacy of Guilt (1968). Her magisterial publication of 2009, Encircled Lands, is the culmination of many years work on the history of the Urewera a great scholarly enterprise that began with a visit to Maungapohatu in the late 1970s. The questions that presented themselves, in that place about that history, led to what Judith Binney has called the unanticipated trilogy: Mihaia (the biography of Rua Kenana); Nga Morehu (oral histories of women connected to the Ringat church); and prizewinning biography of Te Kooti, Redemption Songs. Around this central core of remarkable books stands a ring of essays, exploring sidepaths, offering other stories, presenting glimpses tangential to her historical narratives. The people of these stories without end are those we meet in the books: Rua and Te Kooti, their wives and their descendants; the leaders of the Urewera; the schoolteachers from Maungapohatu; those early missionaries; the government men. Oral history brings its particular resonance to some essays; a discourse on symbols and maps lends insight to another; taking this very specific history, located in the Urewera, to readers outside New Zealand gives a new slant. The stories in this collection are just that: narratives that flow one into another, filling out histories, bringing people out of the shadows, bringing scholarship to life. They are stories without end, from a writer who is also one of New Zealands greatest scholars.

RRP$49.99 240 x 170 mm 400 pages paperback Approx 50 full colour illustrations ISBN 9781877242472 October 2010
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Key points
Judith Binney is a pre-eminent New Zealand historian Her book Encircled Lands is making a political impact, with ongoing sales Earlier titles have all sold well this is a strong writer on important topics The essays tell more stories about the central body her work The many readers of the Binney opus will want this book NZ Post Awards finalist

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CONTENTS
1 2 3. 4. 5. 6. Whatever Happened to Poor Mr Yate?, 1975. The Lost Drawing of Nukutawhiti, 1980. Tukis Universe, 1987. Ancestral Voices: Maori Prophet Leaders, 1990. Maori Oral Narratives, Pakeha Written Texts: Two Forms of Telling History, 2001. Maungapohatu Revisited: Or, How the Government Underdeveloped a Maori Community, 1983. Myth and Explanation in the Ringatu Tradition. Some aspects of the leadership of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki and Rua Kenana Hepetipa, 1984. Two Maori Portraits: Adoption of the Medium, 1992. Some Observations on the Status of Maori Women, 1992.
Judith Binney, DCNZM, FRSNZ, was born in Australia in 1940 and educated at Auckland University, where she is Emeritus Professor of History. She is the author of numerous books of New Zealand history, and in 1996 won the Montana Book of the Year Award for her biography of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki, Redemption Songs. In 2006, the Prime Ministers Award (2006) honoured her particular contribution to Mori history.

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10. Te Mana Tuatoru: The Rohe Potae of Tuhoe, 1997. 11. Songlines from Aotearoa, 1999. 12. Te Umutaoroa: The Earth Oven of Long Cooking, 2001. 13. Tom Ryans Sketches of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki, 2003. 14. Bringing the Stories Back Home, 2004. 15. In-Between Lives: Studies from Within a Colonial Society, 2006. 16. When the White Kawau Flies, 2007. 17. Papahurihia, Pukerenga, Te Atua Wera and Te Nakahi: How Many Prophets?, 2007 18. Te Upokokohua: The Curse of Confiscation on Te Urewera, 2009. 19. The Misses Lundon and the White Blackguards, 2010. 20. Portait of a Maori Woman, 1887, due 2010 . 21. Stories without End, March 2010.

Other titles in print with BWB

The Legacy of Guilt: A Life of Thomas Kendall (1968; BWB, 2005) RRP$49.99 Te Kerikeri 17701850: The Meeting Pool (2007) $34.99 Encircled Lands: Te Urewera 18201921 (2009) $89.99

[Judith Binney] has taken narrative seriously, acknowledges its power and has followed approaches and projects which allow her to pursue them. The intellectuals we meet in her work, from Kendall to Rua, from Hongi Hika to Heni Sunderland, to that man who was a mountain, Te Kooti, are each taken seriously in their successes and failures, their apprehensions and hopes. We know them through their stories, those they told about themselves, and those that have been told of them. Judith understands the ways in which stories mediate the comprehension of life, and the way the present is ordered. Damon Salesa, Reflections on the Work of Judith Binney, New Zealand Journal of History, October 2004 [Encircled Lands] is arguably the most important book on Maori-Pakeha relations to be published in the last quarter-century, unlikely to be equalled in this generation.... Emeritus Professor Alan Ward, New Zealand Books, Winter 2010