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Profile
Anne Salmond is a best-selling New Zealand historian who has specialised
in the dramatic first contact between European explorers and settlers on the
one hand, and the indigenous peoples of New Zealand and the Pacific on the other.
Her most recent book examines Captain James Cook’s voyages and his relationships
with the people of the Pacific.
Selected published works
Hui: A Study in Maori Ceremonial Gatherings, 1975; Two Worlds, 1991; Between Worlds, 1997; The Trial
of the Cannibal Dog, 2003, Montana Medal for Non-Fiction in the Montana
New Zealand Book Awards 2004; Amiria: The Life Story of a Maori Woman, 2005.
Publishers
Penguin Books New Zealand www.penguin.co.nz
Biography
Anne Salmond was born in 1945 and for many years worked closely with
Eruera and Amiria Stirling, noted elders of the Māori tribes Te Whānau-a-Apanui
and Ngāti Porou. Their collaboration led to three books. The first was
Hui: A Study of Māori Ceremonial Gatherings, written in 1971-72
and awarded the Elsdon Best Memorial Gold Medal for distinction in Māori
ethnology in 1976. Then came the story of Mrs Stirling’s life, Amiria,
which won a Wattie Book of the Year Award in 1977, followed by Eruera Stirling’s
Eruera: Teachings of a Māori Elder, which won a Wattie Book of the
Year Award in 1981. Salmond’s major work Two Worlds: First Meetings
Between Māori and Europeans 1642-1772, was published in 1991. It won
the New Zealand Book Award (non-fiction) and the Ernest Scott prize. Between
Worlds: Early Exchanges Between Māori and Europeans 1773-1815, which
follows on from this work, also won the Ernest Scott prize.
Salmond’s work, The Trial of the Cannibal Dog, was published
in 2003 by Penguin Books in New Zealand and Britain and by the University of
Yale Press in the United States in 2004. Subtitled Captain Cook in the South
Seas, it is a fresh and often startling account of Cook’s three voyages
around the Pacific. In this book, Salmond explores the impact of contact on
both Polynesian and European cultures. It won the Montana Medal for Non-fiction
at the 2004 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.
Salmond has achieved many distinctions during her academic career, including
a Fulbright Scholarship, a New Zealand Federation of University Women's Scholarship,
a Nuffield Commonwealth Travelling Scholarship and the seventh James Cook Fellowship.
In 1990, she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. She received
the Commander of the British Empire for Services to Literature and the Māori
People in 1988 and was made Dame Commander of the British Empire for Services
to New Zealand History in 1995. In 2004, Salmond received the inaugural Prime
Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement for Non-fiction. She is Distinguished
Professor of Māori Studies and Anthropology at the University of Auckland,
where she is also Pro Vice-Chancellor (Equal Opportunity). Salmond is the Chairwoman
of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.
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