Man of Two Worlds
SiR PETER BUCK-Te Rangi Hiroa -died in Honolulu a little over two and a half years ago. At the end of next week his ashes will find their final resting place under the symbolic memorial canoe prow near Urenui, and to mark the occasion 2YC will broadcast at 8.0 p.m. on Friday, August 6, a talk by Professor Ernest Beaglehole, of Victoria University College, on the scientific work of this great New Zealander. The question’ Professor Beaglehole answers is: What sort of scientist was Peter Buck and how great, really, was his contribution to the _ international world of science? In this talk listeners will hear of Sir Peter’s apprenticeship to science and how his interest in anthropology was aroused on the troopship which brought him back from the First World War. In his assessment of Sir Peter’s mature work, Professor Beaglehole speaks not only of the sort of scientist he was but of the sort he was not; and he makes some interesting comments on him as a man of two worlds — Maori and Pakeha — who showed that it was possible to fuse these worlds without losing his identity as either a European or a Maori.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 784, 30 July 1954, Page 21
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200Man of Two Worlds New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 784, 30 July 1954, Page 21
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