Saturday, July 10, 2010

Parsons Bookshop Auckland –
An invitation to celebrate the Auckland University Press publication :
Whare Karakia: Maori Church Building, Decoration and Ritual in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1834-1863
By Richard A Sundt.


5.30-7pm, Thursday 15 July 2010
at Parsons Bookshop Auckland
26 Wellesley Street East
Auckland Central 1010
Richard Sundt will be present, visiting from USA.
RSVP by 14 July to Auckland University Press
aup@auckland.ac.nz  Phone 09 373 7528


Richard A Sundt is associate professor in art history at the University of Oregon. Following a sabbatical in New Zealand in 1997, he has been researching early Maori churches.

Chapter headings:- Missionaries, Maori and the Beginning of Ecclesiastical Architecture in New Zealand; Maori Training in European Technology and Indigenous House Construction; Early Maori Essays in Church Design and Construction; The Era of Monumental Whare-style Mission Churches; The Decoration of Maori Churches and the Polemics of Imagery; Missionary Critique and Acceptance of the Whare-style Church; The Shaping of Liturgical Space for Anglican Worship in Whare-style Churches.

225 pages. Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Atlas of Plans; Index.
b&w illustrations throughout. Hardback. $69.99 retail.

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