Browsing by Author "Jennings, William"

• The Debate over 'Kai Tangata' (Maori Cannibalism): New Perspectives from the Correspondence of the Marists 

  Jennings, William (Polynesian Society, 2011)

  French Marist missionaries working in New Zealand from 1838 sometimes mentioned Maori cannibalism in their correspondence. This article finds that the Marists considered cannibalism to be a cultural practice of minor ...

• Early French views of the Waikato and its inhabitants (1840-54) 

  Jennings, William (University of Waikato, 2011)

  This paper will investigate how the cultural background of these Frenchmen informed their descriptions of Waikato Maori and the Waikato environment. It will use the newly-published ten-volume collected correspondence of ...

  

• La prise de Cayenne en 1664 : une nouvelle perspective 

  Jennings, William (2019)

  Résumé La conquête de Cayenne en 1664 marque les prémisses de la politique coloniale de Louis XIV. L’événement est pourtant mal connu, faute de sources primaires fiables, cependant le témoignage inédit du notaire de ...

  

• A newly-available resource for historians of early New Zealand: The Marist Missionary Letters (1838-54) 

  Jennings, William (University of Waikato, 2012)

  The 7000 pages of primary documents of the Lettres reçues d’Océanie constitute a vast new source for the study of the Pacific during the period 1838-54. Published in 2009 after sixteen years of transcription, the Lettres ...

  

• The physical maze and the spiritual labyrinth of Gide's Les Caves Du Vatican 

  Jennings, William (The University of Nottingham, 2007-01-01)

  This article discusses the maze motif in Andre Gide's 1914 novel, Les Caves du Vatican. The author argues that the spiritual labyrinth of French cathedrals, particularly that of Chartres, offers both the key to the novel's ...

  

• A grammar of the Ahamb language (Vanuatu) 

  Rangelov, Tihomir Rumenov (The University of Waikato, 2020)

  A grammar of the Ahamb language (Vanuatu) offers a description of the endangered and previously undocumented Ahamb language spoken by around 950 people. This grammatical description is one of the main outcomes of the Ahamb ...

  

• French foreign language teacher training: the case of Liberian refugee teachers from the multicultural and multilingual Nicla refugee settlement, Guiglo, Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa 

  Knightley, George Michael Cyrus (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  This study investigated challenges Liberian refugee trainees face during French as a Foreign Language (FFL) training at Nicla camp, Côte d’Ivoire. It attempts to understand the circumstances surrounding the FFL teachers’ ...

  

• Preparing for Operatic Roles by Combining Elements of Stanislavsky’s System with Alfreds’ Actioning 

  Dams, June (The University of Waikato, 2017)

  This thesis examines the process of preparing for operatic roles by combining elements of Constantin Stanislavsky’s ‘system’ with Mike Alfreds’ Actioning. The research is presented as a report of a practice-led experiment, ...

  

• Language death = identity death?: The role of Provençal in speaker identities 

  Pickett, Jessica Valerie (University of Waikato, 2013)

  This thesis explores the role the Provençal language plays in the identities of those who speak, or are learning to speak the language. Twelve individuals, who were either teaching, learning or had been involved with ...

  

• The Struggle For Success: A Socio-Cultural Perspective on the French Marist Priests and their Māori Mission 1838-1867 

  Harman, Sandy Angela (University of Waikato, 2010)

  The nineteenth-century Roman Catholic missionary endeavour in New Zealand had its origins in a society of priests from Lyon, known as the Marists. The Marists’ mission has been deemed a failure due to its ongoing financial ...

  

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