Knowledge Is a Blessing on Your MindKnowledge Is a Blessing on Your Mind

"For fifty years, Dame Anne Salmond has navigated 'te ao hurihuri' - travelling to hui with Eruera and Amiria Stirling in the 1970s, working for a university marae alongside Merimeri Penfold, Patu Hohepa and Wharetoroa Kerr in the 1980s, giving evidence to the Waitangi Tribunal in the 2000s. From 'Hui' to 'The trial of the Cannibal Dog' to today's debates about the future of Aotearoa, Anne Salmond has explored who we are to each other. This book traces Salmond's journey as an anthropologist, as a writer and activist, as a Pākehā New Zealander, as a friend, wife and mother - bringing together her key writing on the Māori world, cultural contact, Te Tiriti and the wider Pacific between two covers. This is a story of Aotearoa and the story of one woman's pathway through our changing land"--Jacket flap.