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ROLE OF WAR IN MAORI LIFE - (Te Ao Hou - No. 36 September 1961)
- Date
- September 1961
- By
- Maori Affairs DepartmentMaori Affairs Department
- Publisher
- Te Ao Hou
- Description
Warfare, for all its horror, fulfilled some necessary functions in Maori society. As we have just seen, it was through wars that the tribes were spread out and occupied the large areas of land needed to provide sustenance. Furthermore, in the absence of regular forms of public justice in the relations between Maori communities, war was advantageous...
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- Source
- Te Ao Hou - No. 36 (September 1961)
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