"The historians’ craft is to tease out the larger narratives from … competing versions, missing parts, and conflicting ‘truths’."
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Judith Binney
Dame Judith Mary Caroline Binney DNZM FRSNZ (née Musgrove; 1 July 1940 – 15 February 2011) was a New Zealand historian, writer and emerita professor of history at the University of Auckland. Her work focused on religion in New Zealand, especially the Māori Ringatū religion founded by Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki and continued by Rua Kenana. She also wrote extensively on the history of Ngāi Tūhoe.
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