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Entanglements of empire : missionaries, Māori, and the question of the body / Tony Ballantyne.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ballantyne, Tony, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Māori (New Zealand people)--Missions--History--19th century.
- Māori (New Zealand people).
- New Zealand--History--To 1840.
- New Zealand.
- Great Britain--Colonies--History--19th century.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (375 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- The first Protestant mission was established in New Zealand in 1814, initiating complex political, cultural, and economic entanglements with Maori. Tony Ballantyne shows how interest in missionary Christianity among influential Maori chiefs had far-reaching consequences for both groups. Deftly reconstructing cross-cultural translations and struggles over such concepts and practices as civilization, work, time and space, and gender, he identifies the physical body as the most contentious site of cultural engagement, with Maori and missionaries struggling over hygiene, tattooing, clothing, and s
- Contents:
- Exploration, empire and evangelization
- Making place, reordering space
- Economics, labor, and time
- Containing transgression
- Cultures of death
- The politics of the "enfeebled" body.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822358268
- 0822358263
- 9780822375883
- 0822375885
- OCLC:
- 1144917560
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