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    May 09, 2021 5 minutes
    Pip Cheshire

    Kia Whakanuia te Whenua: People Place Landscape

    CAROLYN HILL (ED.) FOR LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION MARY EGAN PUBLISHING, 2021

    New Zealand has long had an active publishing industry with a solid output of books examining our land and its people. While many in the past focused on the promotion of a green and pleasant land at the bottom of the earth peopled by a happy mix of Māori and Pākehā, the re-examination of the assumptions and values underlying that construct has become an increasing focus in recent years. Kia Whakanuia te Whenua: People Place Landscape, edited by Carolyn Hill for the Landscape Foundation, joins this discussion and offers 40 essays that explore the relationship of Māori with land and its critical role in Māori identity.

    The Landscape Foundation, under whose auspices the volume has been published, is a charitable trust established “to advocate for the

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