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Story: Manners and social behaviour

Contents

  1. Story summary

  2. Defining manners

  3. 19th-century manners

  4. New Zealand manners

  5. Changing manners

  6. Cross-cultural manners

  7. Manners in the 2000s

  8. A guide to modern New Zealand manners

  9. External links and sources

All images and media

From page 1 - Defining manners

The polite son-in-law

The polite son-in-law

Victorian manners

Victorian manners

Chivalry in action

Chivalry in action

The handshake

The handshake

From page 2 - 19th-century manners

Master Hackett in mourning

Master Hackett in mourning

Colonial snobbery

Colonial snobbery

Teaching manners

Teaching manners

Colonial egalitarianism

Colonial egalitarianism

Men behaving badly

Men behaving badly

From page 3 - New Zealand manners

Colonial manners

Colonial manners

Drinking customs

Drinking customs

From page 4 - Changing manners

Meeting procedure

Meeting procedure

A school assembly, 1940s

A school assembly, 1940s

A demonstration, 1973

A demonstration, 1973

Attitudes to women

Attitudes to women

Dress codes

Dress codes

From page 5 - Cross-cultural manners

Learning about city manners, 1967

Learning about city manners, 1967

Land marchers, 1975

Land marchers, 1975

Learning about Māori culture

Learning about Māori culture

Multicultural manners

Multicultural manners

From page 6 - Manners in the 2000s

Manners and childrearing

Manners and childrearing

Teaching children manners: 1840

Teaching children manners: 1840 (1st of 2)

Teaching children manners: 2007

Teaching children manners: 2007 (2nd of 2)

A polite reminder

A polite reminder

The customer is not always right

The customer is not always right

From page 7 - A guide to modern New Zealand manners

The hongi

The hongi

Mobile manners

Mobile manners

Queuing

Queuing

Shared meal, 2011

Shared meal, 2011

Don't spit!

Don't spit!

How to cite this page:

Nancy Swarbrick, 'All images and media', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/manners-and-social-behaviour/media (accessed 28 September 2023)

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 5 Sep 2013

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