Angela Wanhalla starts her story with the mixed-descent community at Maitapapa, Taieri, where her great-grandparents, John Brown and Mabel Smith, were born. As the book took shape, a community emerged from the records, re-casting history and identity in the present.
Drawing on the experiences of mixed-descent families, In/visible Sight examines the early history of cross-cultural encounter and colonization in southern New Zealand. There Ng?i Tahu engaged with the European newcomers on a sustained scale from the 1820s, encountering systematic settlement from the 1840s and...
Angela Wanhalla starts her story with the mixed-descent community at Maitapapa, Taieri, where her great-grandparents, John Brown and Mabel Smith, w...
"The Lives of Colonial Objects" is a sumptuously illustrated and highly readable book about things, and the stories that unfold when we start to investigate them. In this collection of 50 essays the authors, including historians, archivists, curators and Maori scholars, have each chosen an object from New Zealand s colonial past. Some are treasured family possessions such as a kahu kiwi, a music album or a grandmother s travel diary, and their stories have come down through families. Some, like the tauihu of a Maori waka, a Samoan kilikiti bat or a flying boat, are housed in museums. Others a...
"The Lives of Colonial Objects" is a sumptuously illustrated and highly readable book about things, and the stories that unfold when we start to inves...
In contrast to much scholarship on cross-cultural encounters, which focuses primarily on contact between indigenous peoples and settlers or sojourners, this book is concerned with migrant aspects of this phenomenon whether migrant-migrant or migrant-host encounters bringing together studies from a variety of perspectives on cross-cultural encounters, their past, and their resonances across the contemporary Asia-Pacific region. Organised thematically into sections focusing on imperial encounters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, identities in the twentieth and twenty-first...
In contrast to much scholarship on cross-cultural encounters, which focuses primarily on contact between indigenous peoples and settlers or sojourn...
The contributors to Indigenous Textual Cultures examined the ways in which indigenous peoples created textual cultures to navigate, shape, and contest empire, colonialism, and modernity.
The contributors to Indigenous Textual Cultures examined the ways in which indigenous peoples created textual cultures to navigate, shape, and contest...
