Calling the Station Home - Place and Identity in New Zealand''s High Country

Informationen zum Autor Michèle Dominy is Professor of Anthropology at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Klappentext Combining historical, literary and ethnographic approaches, Calling the Station Home draws a fine-grained portrait of New Zealand high-country farm families whose material culture, social arrangements, geographic knowledge, and linguistic practices reveal the ways in which the social production of space and the spatial construction of society are mutually constituted. The book speaks directly to national and international debates about cultural legitimacy, indigenous land claims, and environmental resource management by highlighting settler-descendant expressions of belonging and indigeneity in the white British diaspora. Zusammenfassung This text examines the social! spatial and property practices of New Zealand's high country. It combines historical! literary and ethnographic approaches to draw a portrait of families whose many features can be used in the debates about land use in the colonies of the British diaspora. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Illustrations Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Introduction: Up the Gorge Part 4 Myths Chapter 5 High-Country Mystiques Chapter 6 Compositions of Country Part 7 Family Chapter 8 Homesteads and the Domestic Landscape Chapter 9 Family, Farm, and Property Transfer Part 10 Country Chapter 11 "Knowing this Place": Toponymy and Topographic Language Chapter 12 "Getting on with It": Mustering, Shearing, and Lambing Part 13 Contexts Chapter 14 Asserting a Native Status Chapter 15 Legislating a Sustainable Land Ethic Chapter 16 Epilogue: Calling the Expanse a Home Chapter 17 Glossary Chapter 18 References Chapter 19 Index

Product details

• Authors: Michele Dominy, Dominy Michele
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.01.2001
• EAN: 9780742509528
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-0952-8
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; NATURE / Ecology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Indigenous Peoples, Social impact of environmental issues, Social and cultural anthropology, Australasian & Pacific history, New Zealand, Australasian and Pacific history, Relating to Maori people, New Zealand / Aotearoa