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Entanglements of Empire by Ballantyne, Tony

ISBN: 9781869408268 PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 376 PUBLICATION DATE: 16.03.2015 DIMENSIONS: 22.8 x 15.2 centimetres 1.1 pounds

DESCRIPTION: The first Protestant mission to New Zealand, established in 1814, saw the beginning of complex political, cultural, and economic entanglements with Maori. Entanglements of Empire is a deft reconstruction of the cross-cultural translations of this early period. Misunderstanding was rife, and the physical body itself became the most contentious site of cultural engagement. Maori and missionaries struggled over issues of hygiene, tattooing, clothing, and sexual morality and missionaries found it was difficult to maintain their own practices because of their dependence on Maori chiefly patrons as well as the material constraints and social conflicts. Tony Ballantyne explores the varying understandings of such concepts as civilization, work, time and space, and gender - and the practical consequences of the struggles over these ideas. The encounters in the classroom, chapel, kitchen, and farmyard worked mutually to affect both the Maori and the English worldviews.

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