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Te Puna - a New Zealand mission station : historical archaeology in New Zealand / by Angela Middleton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Middleton, Angela.
- Series:
- Contributions to global historical archaeology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church Missionary Society. New Zealand Mission--History--19th century.
- Church Missionary Society.
- Church Missionary Society. New Zealand Mission.
- Material culture--New Zealand--History.
- Material culture.
- Colonization.
- History.
- New Zealand--Colonization.
- New Zealand.
- New Zealand--Antiquities.
- Antiquities.
- New Zealand Region.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 276 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : Springer, 2008.
- Summary:
- Evangelical missionary societies have been associated with the processes of colonization throughout the globe, from North America to India, Africa, and into the Pacific. In late eighteenth century Britain, the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East (CMS) began its missionary ventures, and in the early nineteenth century, sent three of its members to New Zealand, then an unknown, little-explored part of the world. This book anthropologizes the processes of missionization, presenting a case study of the New Zealand CMS mission station, Te Puna, settled in 1832 following the closure of New Zealand's first mission, established in 1814.
- The historical archaeology of Te Puna demonstrates the particularities of one outpost of early nineteenth century British colonization, but its story resonates around the globe, reflecting local differences, as well as common patterns in missionization. In all mission types, domesticity is revealed as a central, unifying concern of the 'civilizing mission'; other themes of interaction with indigenous peoples, household economy, the development of commerce, and social and gender relations were played out. Across the globe, a common material culture traveled with its evangelizing (and colonizing) settlers, with artifacts appearing as cultural markers from Cape Town in South Africa, to Tasmania and Victoria in Australia, and the even more remote Bay of Islands in New Zealand.
- This book brings to life the Te Puna mission: a simple, rural household, where the larger dramas of settlement, colonization, and culture contact are clearly reflected in the archaeological and archival records. At the same time, the processes of missionization within New Zealand are placed within the wider framework of evangelical efforts in other parts of the world in the early nineteenth century.
- Contents:
- Te Puna Mission Station 3
- The Church Missionary Society 6
- "Mission Stations": A Definition 10
- Missionization and Mission Archeology 11
- Historical Archeology in New Zealand 31
- Chapter 2 The New Zealand Mission 39
- From Contact to Entanglement 39
- Into the Maori World: Mana, Tapu, and Utu 48
- Oihi 1814 52
- The Mission: Organization and Trade 58
- The Expansion of the Mission: Kerikeri, Paihia, and Waimate 64
- Expanding Networks: Wesleyans and Catholics 70
- 1840: Annexation of New Zealand 74
- Chapter 3 Mission Station and Subsistence Farm 85
- Te Puna 1805-1832 86
- Te Puna Mission 1832 90
- Mission and Farm 107
- John and Hannah King: Retirement and Death 113
- Chapter 4 The Archeological Investigations 119
- New Zealand in Prehistory 121
- Archeological Sites: Archaic through to Late Prehistory 123
- Te Puna 1905 and 1906 133
- Agriculture: Ploughing 134
- Structural Features of the Mission House 137
- The Mission House Structure 142
- The Investigation: Features and Artifacts Relating to the Structure 145
- The Archives: Goods Received 148
- Chapter 5 Domesticity and Daily Life 153
- Kerikeri Mission Store Records 155
- Domesticity: Inside the Mission House 162
- Outside Observers: Visitors to the Mission 163
- The Maori Presence 168
- Reading and Writing 169
- Tools 171
- Household and Personal Items 173
- Clothing, Fabric, and Toiletry: Transforming the Body 176
- Dressing: Documentary Evidence 178
- The Artifacts: Buttons, Beads, Irons, Thimbles, and Pins 184
- Archives: The Store Accounts 188
- Toiletries 190
- Metal Fragments: Laundry and Other Household Activities 192
- Kitchen and Cooking 194
- Dining and Drinking 196
- Te Puna: Abandonment and Demolition 216.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780387776200
- 0387776206
- 0387776222
- 9780387776224
- OCLC:
- 214306552
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