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eBook details
- Title: Urunga: Maori Imagery Concerning the Headrest (Part II: CRITICISM & C)
- Author : JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature
- Release Date : January 01, 1987
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 191 KB
Description
Maori-songs and proverbs contain images which are difficult or impossible to understand when each is considered in isolation. But such images are traditonal: they recur in essentially the same or similar forms throughout the literature. When a number of examples of a single image are considered together, along with any other information that may be available, much of the meaning emerges. The comparative study of Maori poetic imagery leads gradually to a better understanding of both the poetry and the modes of thought that produced it. Little has been written about the urunga, the headrest or pillow. But how could the urunga not have been important when it supported the head, the most tapu (or sacred) part of the body, and when references to it occur in poetry, proverbs and legends? First, then, what forms did it take?
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