Lyndsay Head

Position

Senior Lecturer

Qualifications

MA, PhD

Room

Room: 145, Hikuraki (Te Ao Mārama)

Contact Details

Phone: +64-0-3-364-2593
Internal Phone: 6593
lyndsay.head@canterbury.ac.nz

Postal address:
Aotahi: School of Māori and Indigenous Studies,
Te Whare Wānanga O Waitaha,
University of Canterbury,
Private Bag 4800,
Christchurch,
New Zealand

Undergraduate Courses

Kaupapa Rangahau/Research Interests

• Māori thought and politics in the nineteenth century
• Post 1840 Māori religious nationalism
• Historical Māori language

Recent Publications

Head, L. Kupu Pai, Kupu Kino: good and bad words in Māori political writing. In Jenifer Curnow, Ngapare Hopa and Jane McRae (eds), Rere Atu, Taku Manu: Discovering History, Language and Politics in the Māori-Language Newspapers 1842-1933. Auckland, Auckland University Press, 2002: 134-52.

Head, L. A Chief Pleads for Peace in Taranaki, 1860. In History Now: Te Pae Tawhito O Te Wa, v7no3, 2001:19-21.

Head, L. Seeing God and Teaching peace: Dreams of Matiu Te Huia, a Taranaki Visionary. In History Now: Te Pae Tawhito O Te Wa, v6no2, 2000:33-35.

Head, L. The pursuit of modernity in Māori society. In Andrew Sharp and Paul McHugh (eds), Histories, Power and Loss. Wellington, Bridget Williams Books. 2001.

Head, L.F. `Redemption Songs by Judith Binney'. (review) Journal of World History. (forthcoming).

Head, L.F. `Land, citizenship and the mana motuhake movements among Ngati Kahungunu: a study of Māori language documents in history, 1840-1865.' Crown Law Office, 220 pp, 1999.

Head, L.F. `The uses of water in Māori society.' ECNZ. 12 pp, 1998.

Head, L.F. `Towards a new model for Māori historiography in the early colonial period: Taranaki society and its relationship to the state, 1840 - 1860.' Waitangi Tribunal. 166pp, 1998.

Head, L.F. `The disposal of waste in traditional Māori society.' Mitchell Partnerships Environmental Consultants. 12pp, 1997.

Head, L.F. `An analysis of selected letters from the Donald McLean Collection.' Crown Law Office. 20pp, 1997.

Head, L.F. `Traditional Māori perspectives on the ownership of water.' Mitchell Partnerships Environmental Consultants. 24 pp, 1997.

Head, L.F. The baptismal register of Revd Wiremu Te Koti Te Rato; Rapaki 1863 - 1895. Department of Māori monograph, 1996.

Head, L.F. `An analysis of the Waikawa deeds.' Tunnicliffe Walters & Williams. 7pp, 1996.

Head, L.F. `Te Kou o Rehua to the government: "A record of the fighting of former times"'. Ngati Pukenga Tribal Incorporation. 36pp, 1996.

Head, L.F. `The case for celebrating Waitangi Day at Waitangi.' The Press, October 17 1995.

Head, L.F. `Wanganui Minute Book: translation of passages from the court minutes.' Crown Law Office. 6pp, 1994.

Head, L.F. `Pamariki's Narrative.' Crown Law Office. 16pp, September 1994.

Head, L.F. `Chatham Island letters.' Crown Law Office. 14pp. September 1994.

Head, L.F. `The Davis collection of Moriori/Chatham Island manuscripts.' Tchat Henu Association. 72pp, 1994.

Head, L.F. `An Analysis of issues in the report of Dr Mutu on Crown purchases in Muriwhenua 1840 - 1865.' Crown Law Office. 89pp, 1993.

Head, L.F. `The Origins of the Story of the Māori Printing Press.' The Press, July 20 1993.

Head, L.F. `The Gospel of Te Ua Haumene.' Journal of the Polynesian Society, Auckland: Vol 101 no1 March 1992: 7-44.

Head, L.F. `Māori understanding of the impact of Crown purchase, Native Reserve and Crown Grant negotiations on customary land rights.' Waitangi Tribunal. 48pp, 1992.

Head, L.F. `An analysis of linguistic issues raised in Margaret Mutu (1992) Tuku whenua or land sale? and Joan Metge (1992) Cross cultural communication and land transfer in western Muriwhenua, 1832 - 1840.' Waitangi Tribunal. 57pp, 1992.

Head, L.F. `River boundaries to tribal territory: an examination of nineteenth century evidence.' Waitangi Tribunal. 20pp, 1992.

Head, L.F. `Culture on the Fault Line.' (Chapter 2) In Michael King (ed), Being Pakeha: The quest for New Zealand identity. Penguin, Auckland 1991. (16pp)

Head, L.F. `Mana from Heaven by Bronwen Elsmore'. (Book review) New Zealand Journal of History, vol 25 no1, April 1991.v

Head, L.F. `Marenatanga/A society wedding.' Te Karanga v5 no4, February 1990: 14-15.

Head, L.F. `Ti kouka.' Te Karanga, v6 no1, May 1990: 15.

Head, L.F. `He moe/Dreams of war and peace'. Te Karanga v6 no1, May 1990: 18-19.

Head, L.F. `Te Ua Haumene.' Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, Allen and Unwin, Wellington 1990: 511-513.

Head, L.F. `The face on the rock.' Te Karanga, v6 no3, Nov 1990.

Head, L.F. Making Māori sentences. Longman Paul, Auckland 1989. (123pp)

Head, L.F. `He raruraru nui/A great difficulty.' Te Karanga v5 no1, May 1989: 16-21.

Head, L.F. `Te Ruahikihiki: He korero tupuna/Te Ruahikihiki: An account of the ancestors.' Te Karanga, v4 no3, November 1988: 44-45.

Head, L.F. `E hoa e Riti - Friend Ritchie.' Archifacts, June 1988:21-27.

Head, L.F. `Was Nineteenth Century Māori Society Literate?' (with B. Mikaere) Archifacts June 1988:17-20.

Head, L.F. `A comment on an obituary by Wiremu Metehau.' Te Karanga v4 no2, August 1988: 13-16.

Head, L.F. `The gifts of the spirit.' (Chapter 7) In Buddy Mikaere, Te Maiharoa and the promised land. Heinemann, Auckland 1988.

Head, L.F. Making Māori Sentences. Canterbury Māori Studies 2, 1986. (188pp)