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Description

1. xiv, 363 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

1. " In this comprehensive study professor Kawharu emphasizes the effects of the changes that have taken place over the last 150 years. He describes how the fragmentation of remaining land holdings (despite efforts at consolidation) and the rapid post-war urban ization of the Maori people have given rise to a weakening of community bonds and a gradual breakdown in the traditional social structure of the tribe. Back cover."

Subject

1. Land tenure > New Zealand > History
2. Māori (New Zealand people) > Land tenure > History
3. Land tenure (Māori law) > History
4. Propriété foncière > Droit maori > Histoire
5. Colonization
6. Land tenure
7. Land tenure (Māori law)
8. Māori (New Zealand people) > Land tenure
9. Bodennutzung
10. Maori
11. Land titles > New Zealand
12. Tenure types, Traditional > New Zealand
13. New Zealand
14. Maori
15. Indigenous peoples
16. Indigenous land rights
17. Land ownership
18. Customary law
19. Ahi kā
20. Ture whenua
21. Whenua tautohetohe
22. Kāwanatanga
23. Ture o te Kāwanatanga
24. Kōrero nehe
25. New Zealand > Colonization
26. New Zealand
27. gewoonterecht
28. customary law
29. geschiedenis
30. history
31. land
32. grondeigendom
33. land ownership
34. nieuw-zeeland
35. new zealand
36. bezit
37. property
38. Sociology and Anthropology of Law
39. Rechtssociologie- en antropologie

Genre/Form

1. History

Contents

1. Preface -- 1. Introductory (peace and war ; The Maori and settler government ; land purchase to land development) -- 2. Customary tenure and colonization (The nature of tribal society ; Developments between 1800 and 1840 ; Developments between 1840 and 1870 ; Developments between 1870 and 1900) -- 3. Title aspects (The Maori Land Court and title improvement ; Investigation of title ; Partition and succession ; Consolidation of interests ; Amalgamation of interests) -- 4. Economic aspects (Government policy ; Consequential relationships ; Supervised credit ; Reverting and undeveloped land ; Incorporated land) -- 5. Deliberative aspects (Meetings of owners ; Decision-making ; Values) -- 6. Reform and action (Report of Committee of Inquiry ; The Maori Affairs Amendment Bill 1967) -- 7. The consequences of choice.
2. Appendix 1: The Teaty of Waitangi -- Appendix 2: [The following is taken from a consolidation that was carried out as a prelude to the development at Ruatoki] -- Appendix 3: An example of a family arrangement of interests which attempted to counter the disintegation effect of the so-called customary form of succession -- Appendix 4: Two press accounts of one of the best-known schemes of the Department of Maori Affairs, at Pouakani, near Taupo -- Appendix 5: The Committee of Management of the [Otakanini Topu] Incorporation has pleasure in submitting for the information of shareholders the eleventh annual report and statement of accounts for the year ended 30th June 1969 -- Appendix 6: [An excerpt from] The Prichard-Waetford Report -- Appendix 7: A synopsis of the Maori Affairs Amendment Bill 1967 -- Appendix 8: Introduction to the submission of the Tairawhiti District Maori Council and certain Wairoa -- Gisborne -- East Coast incorporations to the Maori Affairs Committee of Parliament, dated September 1967 -- Appendix 9: The following is a greater part of an appeal to the Taranaki tribes with interests in he West Coast Settlement Reserves to take action against that part of the 1967 Act which its sponsors claimed deprived them of control over their land -- Appendix 10: [The N.Z. Maori Council made detailed submissions on the contravention of the Treaty of Waitangi in current statutory law to the Minister of Maori Affairs [Duncan MacIntyre] and the Minister of Justice [Dan Riddiford]]

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. [355]-358.