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Judith Binney Quotes

1940–2011 New Zealand

Dame Judith Mary Caroline Binney DNZM FRSNZ (née Musgrove; 1 July 1940 – 15 February 2011) was a New Zealand historian, writer and emerita professor of history at the University of Auckland. Her work focused on religion in New Zealand, especially the Māori Ringatū religion founded by Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki and continued by Rua Kenana.

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The historians’ craft is to tease out the larger narratives from … competing versions, missing parts, and conflicting ‘truths’.

Biographies are essentially personal histories… [yet] they may tell us more than the story of one life: they may reveal the struggle for the survival of an entire community.

Oral history is transmitted by narrative, by song, by proverb and by genealogy. We who write down our histories in books transmit our chosen perceptions to readers rather than to listeners, but both forms are structured,interpretative and combative.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Judith Binney (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.