Entanglements of Empire: Missionaries, Maori, and the Question of the Body
Tony Ballantyne is Professor of History at the University of Otago. He is the author or editor of many books, including Between Colonialism and Diaspora: Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World and Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History, both also published by Duke University Press.
Exploration, Empire, and Evangelization
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Published:January 2015
This chapter reconstructs the entanglements that brought Māori and Europeans into sustained connection and which incorporated New Zealand into the discourses and economic networks of the British Empire during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. It demonstrates that this long history of imperial exploration and commerce encoded Samuel Marsden’s plan for the New Zealand mission and his vision of the types of social change that missionaries could enact. It also emphasizes the importance of both labor and consumption in shaping the very divergent readings he developed of Māori and Aboriginal cultural capacity. As well as locating Marsden’s thought within...
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