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Entanglements of Empire: Missionaries, Māori, and the Question of the Body

By Tony Ballantyne

Book information

Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2014
ISBN
0822358263, 9780822358268
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2194222 bytes)
Pages
376\0
Time added
2019-06-24 06:55:35

Description

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 sexual morality.Entanglements of Empireis particularly concerned with how, as a result of their encounters in the classroom, chapel, kitchen, and farmyard, Maori and the English mutually influenced each other’s worldviews. Concluding in 1840 with New Zealand’s formal colonization, this book offers an important contribution to debates over religion and empire.

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