Sustaining Indigeneity in New Zealand

Sustaining Indigeneity in New Zealand is a revised collection of ten essays by Steven Webster, all written since 1998.

Autorentext

Steven S. Webster has a PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle, based on field research in an indigenous transhumant society in highland Peru. Since the early 1970s he has undertaken field and ethnohistorical research with the M ori of New Zealand and taught social anthropology and M ori studies at the University of Auckland.

Klappentext

Sustaining Indigeneity in New Zealand is a revised collection of ten essays by Steven Webster, all written since 1998. Collectively they address national policies and indigeneity movements through a lens of class inequality. Webster describes efforts to assimilate the M ori since the advent of neoliberal policies in the 1980s, with a particular focus on the ways the M ori and their supporters have resisted or subverted these policies. Topics covered include: how an idealised version of M ori culture obscured assimilation of the M ori in the 1850s; the M ori renaissance of the later twentieth century; neoliberal subversion of M ori fishing rights; the struggles of N i T hoe, who won control of their ancestral lands under a benevolent administration, lost it under a predatory successor, but then finally regained it in 2014; and commodity fetishism and the ways commodification is resisted and even turned back against the government by the M ori. Covering key episodes of M ori indigeneity movements, the book will be of interest to activists and scholars, as well as undergraduate and graduate students of anthropology, history, sociology, political studies, and ethnic studies.

Inhalt

Table of Contents - List of Figures - List of Tables - Preface - A Note on Translations - Acknowledgements - About the Author - Contemporary M ori Society and the Other Side of M ori Culture [1998] - M ori Hap as a Whole Way of Struggle: 1840-50s before the Land Wars [1998] - M ori Retribalisation and Treaty Rights to the New Zealand Fisheries [2002] - Urewera Kinship and Land, 1894-1926: Some Preliminary Conclusions [2002] - M ori Kinship and Power: Ng i T hoe 1894-1912 [2017] - h ua Te Rangi and Reconciliation in Te Urewera, 1913-1983 [2019] - M ori Indigeneity and Commodity Fetishism [2016] - M ori Indigeneity and the Ontological Turn in Ethnography [2019] - Whakamoana-ed ("Set Adrift")? T hoe M ori Confront Commodification, 1894-1926 [2021] - Biculturalism and M ori Indigeneity in Aotearoa/New Zealand - Socio-economic Class and Domestication of the M ori - Summary - References - Index.