Full Description
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 Māori since the advent of neoliberal policies in the 1980s, with a particular focus on the ways the Māori and their supporters have resisted or subverted these policies.
Topics covered include: how an idealised version of Māori culture obscured assimilation of the Māori in the 1850s; the Māori renaissance of the later twentieth century; neoliberal subversion of Māori fishing rights; the struggles of Nāi Tūhoe, 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 Māori.
Covering key episodes of Māori 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.
Contents
Table of Contents - List of Figures - List of Tables - Preface - A Note on Translations - Acknowledgements - About the Author - Contemporary Māori Society and the Other Side of Māori Culture [1998] - Māori Hapū as a Whole Way of Struggle: 1840-50s before the Land Wars [1998] - Māori Retribalisation and Treaty Rights to the New Zealand Fisheries [2002] - Urewera Kinship and Land, 1894-1926: Some Preliminary Conclusions [2002] - Māori Kinship and Power: Ngāi Tūhoe 1894-1912 [2017] - Ōhāua Te Rangi and Reconciliation in Te Urewera, 1913-1983 [2019] - Māori Indigeneity and Commodity Fetishism [2016] - Māori Indigeneity and the Ontological Turn in Ethnography [2019] - Whakamoana-ed ("Set Adrift")? Tūhoe Māori Confront Commodification, 1894-1926 [2021] - Biculturalism and Māori Indigeneity in Aotearoa/New Zealand - Socio-economic Class and Domestication of the Māori - Summary - References - Index.
