Author Archive for: ‘Ann Hardy’

From mokomokai to upoko tuhi: changing representations of Maori cultural property in film

After more than a hundred years of filmmaking in New Zealand the corpus of films made either by or about New Zealanders has built up to such an extent that it is now possible to trace changing representations of themes and motifs repeated over time. This article looks at representations of a controversial topic: the collection of Maori artefacts, especially …

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