This Pākehā life : an unsettled memoir /
Jones, Alison, 1955-
This Pākehā life : an unsettled memoir / Alison Jones. - WGN1. - 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Being here -- Ghosts and arrivals -- Learning to stand upright -- Finding boundaries -- Tricky memories -- Māori on the front lawn -- Two friends -- Area returned to the natives -- Impossible love -- Middle-class olives, and revolution -- Light on the kūmara garden -- Wānanga -- A surprising whakapapa -- Risky territory -- A broken hill -- The pīwakawaka and and the kaumātua.
"A timely and perceptive memoir from award-winning author and academic Alison Jones. As questions of identity come to the fore once more in New Zealand, this frank and humane account of a life spent traversing Pākehā and Māori worlds offers important insights into our shared life on these islands"--Publisher information.
198858728X 9781988587288
Jones, Alison, 1955-.
College teachers--New Zealand--Biography.
Identity (Psychology)--New Zealand.
Pākehā.
Tuakiri.
Noho-ā-iwi.
Kōrero taumata.
Autobiographies.
LA2394
378.12092
This Pākehā life : an unsettled memoir / Alison Jones. - WGN1. - 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Being here -- Ghosts and arrivals -- Learning to stand upright -- Finding boundaries -- Tricky memories -- Māori on the front lawn -- Two friends -- Area returned to the natives -- Impossible love -- Middle-class olives, and revolution -- Light on the kūmara garden -- Wānanga -- A surprising whakapapa -- Risky territory -- A broken hill -- The pīwakawaka and and the kaumātua.
"A timely and perceptive memoir from award-winning author and academic Alison Jones. As questions of identity come to the fore once more in New Zealand, this frank and humane account of a life spent traversing Pākehā and Māori worlds offers important insights into our shared life on these islands"--Publisher information.
198858728X 9781988587288
Jones, Alison, 1955-.
College teachers--New Zealand--Biography.
Identity (Psychology)--New Zealand.
Pākehā.
Tuakiri.
Noho-ā-iwi.
Kōrero taumata.
Autobiographies.
LA2394
378.12092