Browsing by Author "Ryan, Tom"

• Blue-lip'd cannibal ladies: The allure of the exotic in the illicit Resolution Journal of Gunner John Marra 

  Ryan, Tom (Auckland Art Gallery, 2001)

  Discusses the history and content of the “Journal of the Resolution’s Voyage”, an unauthorized and illicitly published account of Cook’s second voyage of exploration in the Antipodes, by Gunner John Marra of the Resolution’s crew.

  

• Revisioning the Pacific: Bernard Smith in the South Seas 

  Ryan, Tom (University of Hawai’i Press, 2005)

  BORN IN Sydney in 1986, Bernard Smith is today widely considered to be Australia's preeminent art historian and a major cultural theorist.¹ While working as a school teacher and artist during the late 1930S and early 1940s, ...

  

• The postcolonial lesbian text: readings of four novels by Renée 

  Sayer, Susan (The University of Waikato, 1998)

  This thesis addresses the question: “How might a text, written in a signifying relationship to the postcolonial nation Aotearoa New Zealand, be read as a lesbian text?” Part One addresses the possibility of the reading ...

  

• Rebel discourses: Colonial violence, Pai Marire resistance and land allocation at Tauranga 

  Kahotea, Des Tatana (The University of Waikato, 2005)

  This thesis is a study of resistance and power in a colonial situation, based on the ethnography of a confiscated-land claim of three hapu who had been Kingitanga supporters and Pai Marire adherents in the 19th century. ...

  

• Art, the aesthetics, and ethics of tattooing at Flax Roots Tattoo Studio 

  Shaver, Mandy (Amanda) (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  Flax Roots Tattoo Studio, a tattoo business in Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand, offers clients different styles of tattooing to choose from, i.e. Moko, Traditional European, Portrait, and Traditional American. Tattoo artists ...

  

• Shared Lunch: An Ethnography of Food Sovereignty in Whaingaroa and Beyond 

  Ritchie, Isa Pearl (University of Waikato, 2017)

  Food presents complex interconnectedness between inner and outer; social and political; culture and biochemistry; values and practices; tradition and innovation; wealth and poverty; the global, local and highly personal. ...

  

• Neighbours at Puhoi River: A cross-cultural dual biography of Te Hemara Tauhia(1815-1891) and Martin Krippner(1817-1894) 

  Eddy, Anne (The University of Waikato, 2017)

  This thesis seeks to re-construct the biographies of two relatively obscure, yet fascinating and controversial players in the history of Aotearoa New Zealand. Both historical figures were initiators and leaders of neighbouring ...

  

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