Anne Salmond
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16 November 1945 Wellington, New Zealand |
| Fields | New Zealand anthropology and history |
| Institutions | University of Auckland |
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| Thesis | Hui – a study of Maori ceremonial gatherings (1972) |
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Dame Mary Anne Salmond DBE (née Thorpe; born 16 November 1945) is a New Zealand anthropologist, environmentalist and writer. She was New Zealander of the Year in 2013.
Born in Wellington in 1945, Mary Anne Thorpe was raised in Gisborne, before being sent to board at Solway College in Masterton, where she was dux in 1961.
She then attended the University of Auckland, graduating Master of Arts in anthropology in 1968, and the University of Pennsylvania, where she gained a PhD in 1972. Her thesis was titled Hui – a study of Maori ceremonial gatherings.
She was inspired to research early Māori history after visiting the United States on a scholarship as a teenager, and when asked to talk about New Zealand, she realised she did not know much about the Māori side of the story. Her links with the Māori world go back to her great-grandfather, James McDonald, a noted photographer, film-maker and artist who worked with Maori leaders including Sir Apirana Ngata and Sir Peter Buck.
She married conservation architect Jeremy Salmond in 1971.
They live in Auckland and have three children, including anthropologist Amiria Salmond. In 2000, Anne and Jeremy Salmond initiated the restoration of the Longbush Ecosanctuary in Gisborne.
Salmond was appointed to a lectureship at the University of Auckland in 1971. She had a close relationship with Eruera Stirling and Amiria Stirling, noted elders of Te Whānau-ā-Apanui and Ngāti Porou. Their collaboration led to three books about Māori life:
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