he enters a world he could scarcely have imagined. Despite the growing colonial British presence in the early 19th century, Aotearoa—the South Pacific islands that would become known as New Zealand—is still very much dominated by Māori. The settlement is a ramshackle...
This paper investigates the phenomena of consumer tribes by reflecting on a traditional tribal system, the New Zealand Māori, to uncover tribal structures, ways of interacting and how resources are utilised within a community. We map contemporary conceptualisations of the consumer tribe against that ...
"We could add that -briga names are paradoxically more frequent in the West (see this 2005 map of mine) most likely for reasons having to do with the actual meaning of the word (‘hill-fort’), which made it very appropriate for place names in perhaps hostile new lands. -Briga is mor...