... The second chapter contends that the arrangement and interpretation of Indigenous arts and material culture at the Vatican Missionary Exposition and in its official magazine, the Rivista Illustrata, served the goal of rendering Indigenous nations as static. It provides a detailed discussion...

... missionary culture residential schools assimilation Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada ...

... connects how these schools “educated” Indigenous children to the “pope culture” of the Vatican exposition. missionary culture residential schools assimilation Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada ...

... resistance to the missionary emphasis on the social and spiritual importance of sustained and regular labor. This situation began to shift significantly in the late 1820s when the growing self-sufficiency and cultural authority ( mana ) of the mission encouraged some Māori to engage more fully with Christian...

... the ways in which death should be understood and managed. This chapter reconstructs these cross-cultural struggles and also pays particular attention to the ways in which missionaries themselves struggled to transplant their British deathways to the furthest edge of empire. death the body cosmology...

... This final section of the book underlines several key points. It emphasizes the importance of social proximity in missionary work and the ways in which these forms of cross-cultural contact brought the nature and management of the body into question. The conclusion also suggests missionary work...

... The fourth chapter considers how cultural belongings made using Indigenous methods and hands resonate beyond the colonial space of the Vatican Museums. Although missionaries and pope Pius XI considered them as silent markers of missionary progress because of their removal from Indigenous...

... 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...

... symbolic and material struggles over political, economic and cultural authority. the body empire entanglement Māori missionaries tattooing ...