{"id":24746,"date":"2012-08-13T15:41:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T15:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24746"},"modified":"2016-12-17T22:40:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T22:40:26","slug":"the-meeting-place-maori-and-pakeha-encounters-1642%e2%80%931840","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24746","title":{"rendered":"The Meeting Place: M\u0101ori and P\u0101keh\u0101 Encounters, 1642\u20131840"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Meeting Place: M\u0101ori and P\u0101keh\u0101 Encounters, 1642\u20131840<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Aukland University Press<\/a>
\nMay\/June 2012
\n320 pages
\n228 x 148 mm
\nPaperback ISBN: 978 1 86940 594 6<\/p>\n

Vincent O\u2019Malley<\/a><\/strong>, Research Director
\nHistoryWorks Ltd., Wellington, New Zealand<\/em><\/p>\n

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How did M\u0101ori<\/a> and P\u0101keh\u0101<\/a> negotiate a meeting place? Would M\u0101ori observe the Sabbath? Should P\u0101keh\u0101 fear the power of tapu<\/a>? Whose view of land ownership and control would prevail? How would M\u0101ori rangatira and P\u0101keh\u0101 leaders establish the rules of political engagement? Around such considerations about how the world would work, M\u0101ori and P\u0101keh\u0101 in early New Zealand<\/a> defined a way of being together. This is a book about that meeting time and place, about a process of mutual discovery, contact and encounter \u2014 meeting, greeting and seeing \u2014 between M\u0101ori and P\u0101keh\u0101 from 1642 to about 1840.<\/p>\n

After introducing the brief encounters and misunderstandings between European visitors and M\u0101ori before 1814, O\u2019Malley focuses his study on the period between 1814 and 1840 when he argues that both peoples inhabited a \u2018middle ground\u2019 meeting place in which neither could dictate the political, economic or cultural rules of engagement.\u00a0 By looking at economic, religious, political and sexual encounters, O\u2019Malley offers a strikingly different picture to traditional accounts of imperial P\u0101keh\u0101 power over a static, resistant M\u0101ori society.<\/p>\n

In this meeting place, O\u2019Malley shows, M\u0101ori and Europeans re-evaluated cultural priorities, adapted the customs of the other people that they found useful and sometimes \u2018went native\u2019 as they fell over into the other culture. O\u2019Malley concludes with an analysis of how the middle ground gave way around 1840 to a world in which P\u0101keh\u0101 had enough power largely to dictate terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Meeting Place: M\u0101ori and P\u0101keh\u0101 Encounters, 1642\u20131840 Aukland University Press May\/June 2012 320 pages 228 x 148 mm Paperback ISBN: 978 1 86940 594 6 Vincent O\u2019Malley, Research Director HistoryWorks Ltd., Wellington, New Zealand How did M\u0101ori and P\u0101keh\u0101 negotiate a meeting place? Would M\u0101ori observe the Sabbath? Should P\u0101keh\u0101 fear the power of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,8,17,4405],"tags":[11533,1774,1000,11534],"class_list":["post-24746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-oceania","tag-aukland-university-press","tag-maori","tag-new-zealand","tag-vincent-omalley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50757,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24746\/revisions\/50757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}