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Speaker: The gathering of the small tribe, in reply to Sacha,
As it should be.
You are not any part of the very strange literary community of ANZ - and you cant assume to make expert comment on grounds of your expertise in other fields. -
Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to Tess Rooney,
Could you give examples? And if so, are there examples were there was a purely civil marriage institution?
Maoridom.
Religion was not involved. Tribal & familial negotiation certainly were.It became involved when a high-born child was born (and frequently with lower ranks who were experts.)
For lower ranked people, simply sleeping together was acknowledgement of intention to live together(if that was also their intention) - and the children resulting, were entirely'legitimate' (i.e. part of whakapapa.)
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Sacha - a lot of it is ghost-written (sports biographies etc.) and a lot of it is from overseas and a lot of it is celeb crap, compilations of jokes etc. - yep, there are a few ANZ writers involved, especially in the cooking/fishing/sporting /hunting genres.
What is the difference between
a)a compiler
b)a reporter
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Speaker: The gathering of the small tribe, in reply to Sacha,
et our book sales are amongst the highest in the world, aren't they?
And they are extremely heavily weighted towards overseas fiction and ANZ non-fiction.
And, I will reiterate, & thanks Chris W !- ANZers dont give a toss about writers (the number of people who wrote snide things about Margaret Mahy when she was booked for driving drunk was - nasty.)
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Speaker: The gathering of the small tribe, in reply to Sacha,
et our book sales are amongst the highest in the world, aren't they?
And they are extremely heavily weighted towards overseas fiction and ANZ non-fiction.
And, I will reiterate, & thanks Chris W !- ANZers dont give a toss about writers (the number of people who wrote snide things about Margaret Mahy when she was booked for driving drunk was - nasty.)
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Speaker: The gathering of the small tribe, in reply to Lilith __,
but the writers are our people and of considerable importance.
Frankly - not so.
ANZers give f/a of a toss about writers et al.
And cring-making comments (to writers like myself) by Graham just make us think - who is running this game? Not any of us- for any of us - or for what we think is important. -
Speaker: The gathering of the small tribe, in reply to Islander,
Stuff- the edit function ran out-
A) The NZSA used to be a proactive writers' group. It tied itself up with the CLL.
The result was a squander of money (anybody gone and tried out the Great NZ e-Books site? Fuck o dear.)B) A large number of people, from the heights of librarians & cartoonists to some of us lowly poets & whiffly myth-makyrs find the official funding and approval system -vile.
C)Graham - I find - what to me is a self-congratulatory tone of "o look here I am among my own folk and ent we doing good?" - fairly sickening.
Heoi.
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Graham - the 'small tribe' is - a tiny group of officially approved people who do stuff with government funds because they are officially approved. As someone who has been on the 'innards' -but mainly on the 'outtards'- of this group, may I say how very much it DOES NOT represent ANZ writing?
We go on, doing our self-driven thing and rather despising you lot-
I can, however, wholeheartedly approve of the award choices for Joan Druett and "Native trees."
Brillant brillant books - and wordsmiths - and illustrators-
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Richard Aston,
Not that I’m panicking but is anywhere in NZ safe?
Oamaru....
Maori didnt build in Otautahi; Kaiapoi was built relatively late. Maori settled in Akaroa and Lyttelton areas, places with good harbours and stable ground (comparatively.) Swamps werent esteemed as living places though they did have other attractions - which is why ChCh was a fowling & eeling area, seasonally occupied-
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Islander,
Which means,
just in case the post was misunderstood,
NOTHING
will be reinvested into the Government-driven scheme for THEIR rebuilding of ChChCh....There are much better places to rebuild Otautahi - which was a temporary river & seasonal camp.
Get out of the flood plain - go into the foothills - otherwise,
grief IS assurred.