Six Months in the Pacific
'One of our secretaries has lately returned from a six months visit to several of the islands of the Pacific, a voyage which was undertaken specifically with the object of obtaining information as to several points in Polynesian history which required clearing up. A very considerable measure of success was the result'
Annual report of the Council, Journal of the Polynesian Society 1898
'...my researches into the origin of the Maori people had shown me that the question as to where they came from to New Zealand could only be settled by a personal visit to the Eastern Pacific, and that by someone who knew what to search for in those parts.'
S Percy Smith 'Six Months in the Pacific' 1919
'I was delighted to get this little bit of confirmation of Rarotonga history. My old friend and I had had a late sitting the previous evening, and I got some useful information from him. In return, I was able to tell him much of Maori history (in my imperfect Tahitian), in which he was greatly interested. But to most of my questions the answer came, 'Ua mo'e, “It is forgotten.”
S Percy Smith 'Hawaiki:the Whence of the Maori' 1898
'The initial basis of social space is nature-natural or physical space. Upon this basis are superimposed- in ways that transform, supplant or even threaten to destroy it-successive stratified and tangled networks which, though always material in form, nevertheless have an existence beyond their materiality:paths, roads, railways, telephone links, and so on.'
Lefebvre, H. (1991). The production of
space /Henri Lefebvre ; translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. Production
de l'espace.English, 454 p. ;.
'Exchange is only an appearance: each partner or group assesses the value of the last receivable object (limit-object), and the apparent equivalence derives from that'
'A book itself is a little machine, what is the relation...of this literary machine to a war machine, a love machine, revolutionary machine...'
'As an assemblage, a book has only itself, in connection with other assemblages, and in relation to other bodies without organs.'
'Transversal communications between different lines scramble the genealogical trees. Always look for the molecular, or even submolecular particle with which we are allied. We evolve and die more from our polymorphous and rhizomatic flus than of hereditary diseases, or diseases that have their own line of descent. The Rhizome is an anti-genealogy.'
Deleuze, G., Guattari, F., &
Massumi, B. (1987). Thousand Plateaus : Capitalism and Schizophrenia
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http://VUW.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=310185
'If we are to believe the word 'nature', with its ancient metaphysical and theological credentials, what is essential occurs in the depths. To say 'natural' is to say spontaneous. But today nature is drawing away from us...'
'To hold for example, that natural space, the space described by the geographer, existed as such and was then at some point socialized leads either to the ideological posture of nostalgic regret for a space that is no longer, or else to the equally ideological view that this space is of no consequence because it is disappearing.'
Lefebvre, H. (1991). The
production of space /Henri Lefebvre ; translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. Production de l'espace.English, 454 p.
;.
'...Polynesian voyaging is not entirely about exploration and colonization. It is about people engaging with particular materials and substances and necessary transformations and reconstructions of 'things' and social identity incurred within a series of strategic encounters'
Richards, C. (2008). The substance
of Polynesian voyaging. [Article]. World
Archaeology, 40(2), 206-223. doi:
10.1080/00438240802041511
'One of our secretaries has lately returned from a six months visit to several of the islands of the Pacific, a voyage which was undertaken specifically with the object of obtaining information as to several points in Polynesian history which required clearing up. A very considerable measure of success was the result'
Annual report of the Council, Journal of the Polynesian Society 1898
'...my researches into the origin of the Maori people had shown me that the question as to where they came from to New Zealand could only be settled by a personal visit to the Eastern Pacific, and that by someone who knew what to search for in those parts.'
S Percy Smith 'Six Months in the Pacific' 1919
'I was delighted to get this little bit of confirmation of Rarotonga history. My old friend and I had had a late sitting the previous evening, and I got some useful information from him. In return, I was able to tell him much of Maori history (in my imperfect Tahitian), in which he was greatly interested. But to most of my questions the answer came, 'Ua mo'e, “It is forgotten.”
S Percy Smith 'Hawaiki:the Whence of the Maori' 1898
'The initial basis of social space is nature-natural or physical space. Upon this basis are superimposed- in ways that transform, supplant or even threaten to destroy it-successive stratified and tangled networks which, though always material in form, nevertheless have an existence beyond their materiality:paths, roads, railways, telephone links, and so on.'
Lefebvre, H. (1991). The production of
space /Henri Lefebvre ; translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. Production
de l'espace.English, 454 p. ;.
'Exchange is only an appearance: each partner or group assesses the value of the last receivable object (limit-object), and the apparent equivalence derives from that'
'A book itself is a little machine, what is the relation...of this literary machine to a war machine, a love machine, revolutionary machine...'
'As an assemblage, a book has only itself, in connection with other assemblages, and in relation to other bodies without organs.'
'Transversal communications between different lines scramble the genealogical trees. Always look for the molecular, or even submolecular particle with which we are allied. We evolve and die more from our polymorphous and rhizomatic flus than of hereditary diseases, or diseases that have their own line of descent. The Rhizome is an anti-genealogy.'
Deleuze, G., Guattari, F., &
Massumi, B. (1987). Thousand Plateaus : Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Retrieved from
http://VUW.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=310185
'If we are to believe the word 'nature', with its ancient metaphysical and theological credentials, what is essential occurs in the depths. To say 'natural' is to say spontaneous. But today nature is drawing away from us...'
'To hold for example, that natural space, the space described by the geographer, existed as such and was then at some point socialized leads either to the ideological posture of nostalgic regret for a space that is no longer, or else to the equally ideological view that this space is of no consequence because it is disappearing.'
Lefebvre, H. (1991). The
production of space /Henri Lefebvre ; translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. Production de l'espace.English, 454 p.
;.
'...Polynesian voyaging is not entirely about exploration and colonization. It is about people engaging with particular materials and substances and necessary transformations and reconstructions of 'things' and social identity incurred within a series of strategic encounters'
Richards, C. (2008). The substance
of Polynesian voyaging. [Article]. World
Archaeology, 40(2), 206-223. doi:
10.1080/00438240802041511