Angela Wanhalla starts her story with the mixed-descent community at Maitapapa, Taieri, where her great-grandparents, John Brown and Mabel Smith, were born. As the book took shape, a community emerged from the records, re-casting history and identity in the present. --Drawing on the experiences of mixed-descent families, In/visible Sight examines the early history of cross-cultural encounter and colonization in southern New Zealand. There Ng i Tahu engaged with the European newcomers on a sustained scale from the 1820s, ...
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Angela Wanhalla starts her story with the mixed-descent community at Maitapapa, Taieri, where her great-grandparents, John Brown and Mabel Smith, were born. As the book took shape, a community emerged from the records, re-casting history and identity in the present. --Drawing on the experiences of mixed-descent families, In/visible Sight examines the early history of cross-cultural encounter and colonization in southern New Zealand. There Ng i Tahu engaged with the European newcomers on a sustained scale from the 1820s, encountering systematic settlement from the 1840s and fighting land alienation from the 1850s. The evolving social world was one framed by marriage, kinship networks and cultural practices - a world in which inter-racial intimacy played a formative role.--In exploring this history through a particular group of family networks, In/visible Sight offers new insights into New Zealand's colonial past. Marriage as a fundamental social institution in the nineteenth century takes on a different shape when seen through the lens of cross-cultural encounters. The book also outlines some of the contours and ambiguities involved in living as mixed descent in colonial New Zealand.-
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New. Drawing on the experiences of mixed-Maori/White families, Wanhalla examines the early history of southern New Zealand, a world in which inter-racial intimacy played a formative role. Num Pages: 220 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBN; HBTB; JFC; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 14. Weight in Grams: 408. 2001. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
