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The Meeting Place : Maori and Pakeha Encounters, 1642-1840.
An account focusing on the encounters between the Maori and Pakeha-or European settlers-and the process of mutual discovery from 1642 to around 1840, this New Zealand history book argues that both groups inhabited a middle ground in which neither could dictate the political, economic, or cultural ru...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
Auckland University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Becoming Māori, becoming Pākehā; Before the middle ground
- Tasman and the time of mutual incomprehension; Cross-cultural travels: Cook, Banks and Tupaia in Aotearoa; The French connection: Jean-François Marie de Surville in Tai Tokerau; 'The tribe of Marion': Marion du Fresne's bloody encounter; 2 First Encounters; Kāwana Kingi and the Norfolk Island connection; A native abroad: Savage and Moehanga; A tragic liaison: George Bruce and Atahoe; Deepsea whalers and Māori.
- Clashing cultures: the burning of the BoydA regal visit: Hongi Hika in London and the aftermath; Kupe's journey; 3 Strangers Landing in Strange Lands; Importing missionaries: Ruatara and Marsden; The missionary challenge; Saving souls abroad: Tuai and Titere in England; Southern sealers and whalers; Middle New Zealand: early interactions in the Cook Strait region and further north; Jumping ship: further European settlement in the north; Learning to get along with one another: the nature of Māori and Pākehā relationships before 1840; 4 On the Middle Ground; Commerce and gift exchange.
- Trade and agricultureSelling services; New wants and needs; Ownership and use rights; 'Tuku whenua' and land dealings; 5 Trading Relationships: The Commercial Frontier; Sex and sailors; The sexual politics of the frontier; 6 Sex on the Frontier; Understanding Māori 'conversion'; A unique form of Christianity?; Tapu and other customs; 7 Subverting Conversion? Religious Encounters; The evolving role of rangatira in the pre-Waitangi era; Taua muru; Rūnanga and komiti; A dying people?; 8 The Political World of Aotearoa before 1840; 9 The Impact of Cultural Encounter on the New Zealand Frontier.
- 10 The End of the Middle GroundNotes; Bibliography; Index; Copyright Page; Backcover.