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period and has strong echos in the 21st century and was a strong advocate of Māori separatism. In particular she showed how understanding Māori history is based on what she named the myth narrative, where ancient stories are interwoven with new events to create newer myth narratives. She emphasized that Māori history has a quite different purpose to
Western history, with its strong emphasis on preserving and enhancing the mana of a
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She contrasted strongly the Māori belief in evidence based on mysticism, spirits, prophesy, in song and stories to explain why events happen with the quite different
Western system. In particular she offered readers a clear insight into the Māori use of a non linear time scale, with events and people
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More than any other historian Binney highlighted the fundamental differences in the belief systems of Māori (especially Tūhoe) and
European civilization in New Zealand. She showed great understanding of the traditional manner of non-linear thinking of Māori that lasted long into the post contact
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On 4 December 2009, Binney received serious head injuries after being struck by a truck while crossing
Princes St in Auckland City. On 15 February 2011, she died in her Auckland home, aged 70, of an illness unrelated to the accident. She was survived by her husband, Sebastian Black.
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recounts a claim that Judith Binney was the target of a fire-bombing attack on
September 29, 1986. A Molotov cocktail was thrown into the house of Binney's neighbour, Michael Neill (an English Professor at the University of Auckland, and brother of actor
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in 1965, and started work at the university as a lecturer in the
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