Margaret Orbell
New Zealand anthropologist and author
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Margaret Orbell's Degrees
- Bachelors Anthropology University of New Zealand
- Masters Anthropology University of New Zealand
- PhD Anthropology University of New Zealand
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Margaret Rose Orbell was a New Zealand author, editor and academic. She was an associate professor of Māori at the University of Canterbury from 1976 to 1994. During her career, Orbell wrote several books on Māori literature and culture, edited numerous collections of songs, poetry and stories, and brought Māori works to a wider and international audience. She was an editor of bilingual magazine Te Ao Hou / The New World in the 1960s, and expanded the magazine's literary and historical content. In 2002, she was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Māori and literature.
Margaret Orbell's Published Works
Published Works
- The Natural World of the Maori (1985) (60)
- The illustrated encyclopedia of Māori myth and legend (1995) (51)
- Hawaiki: A new approach to Maori tradition (1991) (35)
- Traditional Songs of the Maori (1978) (23)
- South Pacific Oral Traditions (1996) (19)
- The Penguin book of New Zealand verse (1985) (16)
- Birds of Aotearoa: A Natural and Cultural History (2003) (12)
- A concise encyclopedia of Māori myth and legend (1998) (10)
- Traditional Māori stories (1992) (9)
- Waiata: Maori songs in history : an anthology (1991) (8)
- Contemporary Maori writing (1970) (6)
- Maori poetry: An introductory anthology (1978) (6)
- "My Summit Where I Sit": Form and Content in Maori Women's Love Songs (1990) (5)
- Maori women's writing: An introductory survey (1978) (3)
- He reta ki te maunga : letters to the mountain : Māori letters to the editor, 1898-1905 (2002) (2)
- Two letters from Hari Heemara Wahanui to Elsdon Best--June 1917 (1970) (1)
- A select bibliography of the oral tradition of Oceania (1974) (1)
- Parāone’s horses: — a letter from Hōhepa Tamamutu, 1875 (1999) (1)
- Rau-mata-nui's Waiata (1996) (0)
- A Visitor's Waiata Whaiāipo (2001) (0)
- Orbell, Margaret Rose, 1934-2006: Collection (0)
- Tikawe's Last Song (1998) (0)
- Robert D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology (1991) (0)
- Letters to the mountain : Māori letters to the editor, 1898-1905 = He reta ki te maunga (2002) (0)
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