Calling the station home : place and identity in New Zealand's high country / Michèle D. Dominy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dominy, Michèle D., 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human geography.

Group identity.

Spatial behavior.

Sheep ranches.

Social aspects.

South Island (N.Z.)--Rural conditions.

South Island (N.Z.).

Sheep ranches--Social aspects--New Zealand--South Island.

Spatial behavior--New Zealand--South Island.

Group identity--New Zealand--South Island.

Human geography--New Zealand--South Island.

New Zealand--South Island.

New Zealand.

Physical Description:

xiii, 306 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. ; Oxford : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2001]

Summary:

Combining historical, literary and ethnographic approaches, Calling the Station Home draws a fine-grained portrait of New Zealand high-country farm families whose material culture, social arrangements, geographic knowledge, and linguistic practices reveal the ways in which the social production of space and the spatial construction of society are mutually constituted. The book speaks directly to national and international debates about cultural legitimacy, indigenous land claims, and environmental resource management by highlighting settler-descendant expressions of belonging and indigeneity in the white British diaspora.

Contents:

Introduction: Up the Gorge

Pt. I. Myths. Ch. 1. High-Country Mystiques. Ch. 2. Compositions of Country

Pt. II. Family. Ch. 3. Homesteads and the Domestic Landscape. Ch. 4. Family, Farm, and Property Transfer

Pt. III. Country. Ch. 5. "Knowing This Place": Toponymy and Topographic Language. Ch. 6. "Getting on with It": Mustering, Shearing, and Lambing

Pt. IV. Contexts. Ch. 7. Asserting Native Status. Ch. 8. Legislating a Sustainable Land Ethic. Epilogue: Calling the Expanse a Home.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-299) and index.

ISBN:

0742509516

0742509524

OCLC:

44818600