Tag: Māori

  • “I don’t think we have any full-blooded Māori,” Dr. [Tīmoti] Kāretu said. “But it is not a problem. As long as you have a Māori (ancestor), you are Māori. It’s left to the individual to identify with their Māori or European.” K. C. Cole, “Chickasaw and Māori Celebrate Similarities, Language and Culture,” Indian Country Today…

  • The Meeting Place: Māori and Pākehā Encounters, 1642–1840 Aukland University Press May/June 2012 320 pages 228 x 148 mm Paperback ISBN: 978 1 86940 594 6 Vincent O’Malley, Research Director HistoryWorks Ltd., Wellington, New Zealand How did Māori and Pākehā negotiate a meeting place? Would Māori observe the Sabbath? Should Pākehā fear the power of…

  • White Mothers, Brown Children: Ethnic Identification of Maori-European Children in New Zealand Journal of Marriage and Family Volume 69, Issue 5 (December 2007) pages 1150–1161 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2007.00438.x Tahu H. Kukutai, Senior Research Fellow Population Studies Centre University of Waikato Studies of multiethnic families often assume the ethnic identification of children with the minority group results…

  • Mai i ngā Ao e Rua–From Two Worlds: An investigation into the attitudes towards half castes in New Zealand University of Otago, Dunedin October 2006 91 pages Suzanne Boyes A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the degree of Bachelor of Arts (Honours), in Māori Studies at the University of Otago, Dunedin This dissertation investigates…

  • Gender, Work and Fears of a ‘Hybrid Race’ in 1920s New Zealand Gender & History Volume 19, Issue 3 (November 2007) pages 501–518 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2007.00495.x Barbara Brookes, Professor of History Otago University, New Zealand The 1929 New Zealand Committee of Inquiry into the Employment of Māori on Market Gardens affords insight into the ways in…

  • Being Māori-Chinese: Mixed Identities (Book Review) Sites: a journal of social anthropology and cultural studies University of Otago, New Zealand Volume 5, Number 2 (2008) pages 180-182 Kate Bagnall Being Māori-Chinese: Mixed Identities, Manying Ip, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2008, 255pp. ISBN 978-1-86940-399-7 Manying Ip makes it clear from the outset that Being Māori-Chinese: Mixed Identities…