... This chapter investigates the connections between collecting, ordering, and governing in Aotearoa/New Zealand through four distinctive, overlapping collections. Organized around “the Maori as he was,” a concept that referenced the preservation of ancient pre-European Māori life, this notion...

... empire missionaries civilization Māori Pacific ...

... place space gender Māori missionaries ...

... death the body cosmology missionaries Māori ...

... the body empire entanglement Māori missionaries tattooing ...

... work time exchange missionaries Māori Sabbath ...

... great Pacific garbage patch diaspora US imperialism Maori Pacific ...

... 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...

... indigenous anthropology ethnology Board of Maori Ethnological Research New Zealand anthropological assemblage ...

... This chapter explores missionary attempts to transform Māori economic behavior. In particular, it examines the place of “industriousness” in Marsden’s civilizing scheme and in the struggles over labor and the organization of time on mission stations in the 1810s and 1820s. It reconstructs...

... Death and deathways occupied a central position in the collision between bodily regimes on the New Zealand frontier. For missionaries understanding Māori views of death was a crucial element in their attempts to create a vernacularized Christianity in northern New Zealand. These beliefs...