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Mervyn McLean

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study of Maori culture

  • The Bone People
    In New Zealand literature: Maori narrative: the oral tradition

    …the words, and the scholars Mervyn McLean and Margaret Orbell were the first to publish text and music together. McLean and Orbell distinguished three kinds of waiata (songs): waiata tangi (laments—for the dead, but also for other kinds of loss or misfortune), waiata aroha (songs about the nature of love—not…

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