Reading Pakeha

Author : Alison Jones
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 1988587255
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Pākehā Life written by Alison Jones and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This book is about my making sense here, of my becoming and being Pākehā. Every Pākehā becomes a Pākehā in their own way, finding her or his own meaning for that Māori word. This is the story of what it means to me. I have written this book for Pākehā – and other New Zealanders – curious about their sense of identity and about the ambivalences we Pākehā often experience in our relationships with Māori.' A timely and perceptive memoir from award-winning author and academic Alison Jones. As questions of identity come to the fore once more in New Zealand, this frank and humane account of a life spent traversing Pākehā and Māori worlds offers important insights into our shared life on these islands.

Author : Christina Stachurski
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042026448
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Pakeha? written by Christina Stachurski and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aotearoa New Zealand, "a tiny Pacific country," is of great interest to those engaged in postcolonial and literary studies throughout the world. In all former colonies, myths of national identity are vested with various interests. Shifts in collective Pakeha (or New Zealand-European) identity have been marked by the phenomenal popularity of three novels, each at a time of massive social change. Late-colonialism, anti-imperialism, and the collapse of the idea of a singular 'nation' can be traced through the reception of John Mulgan's Man Alone (1939), Keri Hulme's the bone people (1983), and Alan Duff's Once Were Warriors (1990). Yet close analysis of these three novels also reveals marginalization and silencing in claims to singular Pakeha identity and a linear development of settler acculturation. Such a dynamic resonates with that of other 'settler' cultures - the similarities and differences telling in comparison. Specifically, Reading Pakeha? Fiction and Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand explores how concepts of race and ethnicity intersect with those of gender, sex, and sexuality. This book also asks whether 'Pakeha' is still a meaningful term.

Author : Trevor Bentley
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780143007838
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pakeha Maori written by Trevor Bentley and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes one of the most extraordinary and fascinating stories in NZ history. In the early part of the last century several thousand runaway seamen and escaped convicts settled in Maori communities. Jacky Mamon, John Rutherford, Charlotte Badger and many others - this is their largely untold story. They were regarded as unsavoury renegades by the European settlers, but amongst Maori they were usually welcomed. Many Pakeha Maori took wives and were treated as Maori, others were treated as slaves. Some received the moko, the facial or body tattoo. Others became virtual white chiefs and fought in battle with their adopted tribe. A few even fought against European soldiers, advising their fellow fighters about European infantry and artillery tactics. In this, the first-ever book devoted solely to the Pakeha Maori, Trevor Bentley describes in fascinating detail how the strangers entered Maori communities, adapted to tribal life and played a significant role in the merging of the two cultures.

Author : Claudia Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140244960
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing New Zealand written by Claudia Bell and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of New Zealanders' national identity, who claims our identity for us and why.

Author : Lawrence Patchett
Publisher : Victoria University Press
ISBN 13 : 1776562666
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burning River written by Lawrence Patchett and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a radically changed Aotearoa New Zealand, Van's life in the swamp is hazardous. Sheltered by Rau and Matewai, he mines plastic and trades to survive. When a young visitor summons him to the fenced settlement on the hill, he is offered a new and frightening responsibility—a perilous inland journey that leads to a tense confrontation and the prospect of a rebuilt world.

Author : Richard Shaw
Publisher : Massey University Press
ISBN 13 : 0995146527
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten Coast written by Richard Shaw and published by Massey University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: &‘You approach family stories with caution and care, especially when a thing long forgotten is uncovered in the telling.'In this deft memoir, Richard Shaw unpacks a generations-old family story he was never told: that his ancestors once farmed land in Taranaki which had been confiscated from its owners and sold to his great-grandfather, who had been with the Armed Constabulary when it invaded Parihaka on 5 November 1881.Honest, and intertwined with an examination of Shaw's relationship with his father and of his family's Catholicism, this book's key focus is urgent: how, in a decolonizing world, Pakeha New Zealanders wrestle with, and own, the privilege of their colonial pasts.

Author : William Edward Moneyhun
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147667700X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New New Zealand written by William Edward Moneyhun and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's New Zealand is an emerging paradigm for successful cultural relations. Although the nation's Maori (indigenous Polynesian) and Pakeha (colonial European) populations of the 19th century were dramatically different and often at odds, they are today co-contributors to a vibrant society. For more than a century they have been working out the kind of nation that engenders respect and well-being; and their interaction, though often riddled with confrontation, is finally bearing bicultural fruit. By their model, the encounter of diverse cultures does not require the surrender of one to the other; rather, it entails each expanding its own cultural categories in the light of the other. The time is ripe to explore modern New Zealand's cultural dynamics for what we can learn about getting along. The present anthropological work focuses on religion and related symbols, forms of reciprocity, the operation of power and the concept of culture in modern New Zealand society.

Author : Ian Hugh Kawharu
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waitangi written by Ian Hugh Kawharu and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Part One discuss aspects of the legal and historical significance of the gaining of sovereignty over New Zealand by the Crown. The essays in Part Two are studies of Maori reaction to the guarantees given by the Crown to protect their "rangatiratanga" - their tribally based heritage and identity.

Author : Vincent O'Malley
Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 1775581950
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Meeting Place written by Vincent O'Malley and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account focusing on the encounters between the Maori and Pakeha—or European settlers—and the process of mutual discovery from 1642 to around 1840, this New Zealand history book argues that both groups inhabited a middle ground in which neither could dictate the political, economic, or cultural rules of engagement. By looking at economic, religious, political, and sexual encounters, it offers a strikingly different picture to traditional accounts of imperial Pakeha power over a static, resistant Maori society. With fresh insights, this book examines why mostly beneficial interactions between these two cultures began to merge and the reasons for their subsequent demise after 1840.

Author : Michael King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being Pakeha written by Michael King and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pakeha author grew up in the 1940s and 50s. As an author and film-maker he became involved in the Maori renaissance of the 1970s and eighties.