Buck, Sir Peter

Buck, Sir Peter

▪ Maori anthropologist, physicist, and politician
in full  Sir Peter Henry Buck,  original name  Te Rangi Hiroa 
born Dec. 15, 1880, Uremi, N.Z.
died Dec. 1, 1951, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.

       Maori anthropologist, physician, and politician who made major contributions to Maori public health and became one of the world's leading Polynesian studies scholars.

      The son of William Henry Buck and Ngarongo-ki-tua, a Ngnti Mutunga Maori tribeswoman, Buck was a medical officer for Maori health with the New Zealand health department (1905–08). He launched a successful drive (1905–14) with Sir Maui Pomare, a fellow member of the Young Maori Party, to improve medical care for Maoris. From 1909 to 1914 he represented the northern Maori constituency in Parliament, serving as minister of the Maori race (1912–14). After duty with the New Zealand medical corps in World War I, he resumed his public-health work as director of the division of Maori hygiene for the New Zealand department of health.

      Between 1922 and 1927 Buck published a series of scientific papers on Maori life, and in 1927 he became a researcher in Polynesian ethnology for the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu. He spent the following 25 years studying and writing about the native Polynesian cultures, becoming director of the Bishop Museum and visiting professor of anthropology at Yale University (1932–34, 1936, 1939). He was knighted in 1946. His books include Vikings of the Sunrise (1938), a survey of Polynesian life, and The Coming of the Maori (1947), his final reflections on the Maori.

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