Avis Acres (1910–1994)
Autore di The Adventures of Hutu and Kawa
Serie
Opere di Avis Acres
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- McNeill, Thyra Avis Mary (birth name)
- Data di nascita
- 1910-03-26
- Data di morte
- 1994-10-15
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- New Zealand
- Luogo di nascita
- Wellington, New Zealand
- Luogo di morte
- Tauranga, New Zealand
- Luogo di residenza
- Auckland, New Zealand
Waikato, New Zealand
Taupo, New Zealand
Levin, New Zealand
Te Horo, New Zealand
Tauranga, New Zealand - Istruzione
- St Cuthbert’s College, Auckland, New Zealand
- Attività lavorative
- children's book author
illustrator
Utenti
Recensioni
Statistiche
- Opere
- 6
- Utenti
- 29
- Popolarità
- #460,290
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 13
Americans will find not only exotic flora and fauna, but some other terms and objects that are puzzling to people who don't have any background in Maori culture. Despite being visually of European descent, the little pohutukawa fairies wear feather cloaks and carry flax kits (bags woven from flax) and make canoes with greenstone axes. On the one hand, you have to worry about cultural appropriation and dehumanizing Native populations. On the other hand, to an American eye it's refreshing that a book written in the 50s assumes that these things are familiar to all readers and are part of patterns of normal life; it's hard to imagine a similar book anthropomorphizing American flowers into white-appearing people who follow Native American traditions without comment or explanation.… (altro)