Anne Salmond

Dame Anne Salmond, DBE, FRSNZ, FBA (born 1945) is a New Zealand anthropologist and writer.

Background

Salmond was born in Wellington in 1945 and grew up in Gisborne, before being sent to board at Solway College in Masterton. She was educated at the University of Auckland and the University of Pennsylvania.

Family

She and her husband Jeremy live in Auckland and have three children, Amiria [1], Stephen and Tim. In 2000, she and her husband initiated the restoration of the Longbush Ecosanctuary in Gisborne. [2]

Career

Salmond is a Distinguished Professor of Maori Studies and Anthropology at the University of Auckland. Her links with the Maori world go back to her great grandfather, James McDonald [3], a noted photographer, film-maker and artist who worked with Maori leaders including Sir Apirana Ngata [4] and Sir Peter Buck [5]. [6].

Salmond had a close relationship with Eruera Stirling and Amiria Stirling, noted elders of Te Whānau-ā-Apanui and Ngati Porou. Their collaboration led to three books about Maori life:

• Hui: A Study of Maori Ceremonial Gatherings (1975) – awarded the Elsdon Best memorial gold medal for distinction in Maori ethnology in 1976
• Amiria: The Life of a Maori Woman, which won a Wattie Book of the Year Award in 1977
• Eruera: Teachings of a Maori Elder won first prize in the Wattie Book of the Year Awards in 1981

Salmond's work then turned to cross-cultural encounters in New Zealand, resulting in two works:

• Two Worlds: First Meetings Between Maori and Europeans 1642-1772 (1991) which won the National Book Award (Non-Fiction) in 1991, and the Ernest Scott Prize in 1992
• Between Worlds: Early Exchanges Between Maori and Europeans 1773-1815 (1997) which won the Ernest Scott Prize in 1998;

Afterwards, she began to explore early exchanges between islanders and European explorers in the Pacific, leading to the publication of three books:

• The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas (2003), which won the History Category and the Montana Medal for Non Fiction at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2004
• Aphrodite's Island: the European Discovery of Tahiti
• Bligh: The Pacific Voyages of William Bligh (2011).

She is currently writing a book about exchanges between different realities (ontologies) to be titled Tears of Rangi: Experiments between Worlds.

In 2004, Salmond received the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement for non-fiction.

Salmond has served on the boards of the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology, the Museum of New Zealand, and she was chair of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust from 2001 to 2007. She was Pro-Vice Chancellor (Equal Opportunity) at the University of Auckland from 1997 to 2006. [7]. She is the Project Sponsor for the Starpath Partnership for Excellence, which aims to ensure that Maori, Pacific and low income students achieve their potential through education. [8]

Honours

In 1988 she was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to literature and the Maori people and in 1990 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. In 1995 she became a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to New Zealand history.

In November 2007, she was elected as an inaugural Fellow of the New Zealand Academy for the Humanities. In 2008, she was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, and in 2009, she was elected a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences – the first New Zealander known to have achieved this double distinction. [9] [10]

External links

Interviews

• Anne Salmond interview with Alan Macfarlane, 19 November 2004
• Anne Salmond Interview with Kim Hill, 29 July 2012
• Anne Salmond Interview at World Class New Zealand Awards August 2011
• Waitangi Day interview, 6 February 2013

Speeches

• Knowledge Wave.org website (NZ) Anne Salmond, Knowledge Wave Conference, Auckland 2003
• [11] - Speech to Distinguished Alumni, University of Auckland, June 2011
• Sir Paul Reeves Memorial Lecture 2012

Articles

• We Could Do with a Change of Heart: Anne Salmond, New Zealand Herald, October 2011
• Separating Free Market Wolves from the Lambs: Anne Salmond, NZ Herald article February 2013

Environmental

• Longbush Reserve website
• Anne Salmond Sanderson Memorial Lecture, Wellington, June 2012

About

• Anne Salmond entry at New Zealand Book Council website
• BRITAC.org
• New Zealand Academy of the Humanities
• New Zealand media coverage of Dame Anne Salmond
• Edgenz.com
• Transit of Venus website (NZ)