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Sustaining Indigeneity in New Zealand is a revised collection of ten essays by Steven Webster, all written since 1998. Collectively they address national policies and indigeneity movements through a lens of class inequality. Webster describes efforts to assimilate the Maori since the advent of neoliberal policies in the 1980s, with a particular focus on the ways the Maori and their supporters have resisted or subverted these policies.
Topics covered include: how an idealised version of Maori culture obscured assimilation of the Maori in the 1850s; the Maori renaissance of the later twentieth century; neoliberal subversion of Maori fishing rights; the struggles of Nai Tuhoe, who won control of their ancestral lands under a benevolent administration, lost it under a predatory successor, but then finally regained it in 2014; and commodity fetishism and the ways commodification is resisted and even turned back against the government by the Maori.
Covering key episodes of Maori indigeneity movements, the book will be of interest to activists and scholars, as well as undergraduate and graduate students of anthropology, history, sociology, political studies, and ethnic studies.
List of contents
Table of Contents - List of Figures - List of Tables - Preface - A Note on Translations - Acknowledgements - About the Author - Contemporary Maori Society and the Other Side of Maori Culture [1998] - Maori Hapu as a Whole Way of Struggle: 1840-50s before the Land Wars [1998] - Maori Retribalisation and Treaty Rights to the New Zealand Fisheries [2002] - Urewera Kinship and Land, 1894-1926: Some Preliminary Conclusions [2002] - Maori Kinship and Power: Ngai Tuhoe 1894-1912 [2017] - haua Te Rangi and Reconciliation in Te Urewera, 1913-1983 [2019] - Maori Indigeneity and Commodity Fetishism [2016] - Maori Indigeneity and the Ontological Turn in Ethnography [2019] - Whakamoana-ed ("Set Adrift")? Tuhoe Maori Confront Commodification, 1894-1926 [2021] - Biculturalism and Maori Indigeneity in Aotearoa/New Zealand - Socio-economic Class and Domestication of the Maori - Summary - References - Index.
About the author
Steven S. Webster has a PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle, based on field research in an indigenous transhumant society in highland Peru. Since the early 1970s he has undertaken field and ethnohistorical research with the M¿ori of New Zealand and taught social anthropology and M¿ori studies at the University of Auckland.
Summary
Sustaining Indigeneity in New Zealand is a revised collection of ten essays by Steven Webster, all written since 1998.
