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Entanglements of Empire - Missionaries, Maori, and the Question of the Body (Paperback)
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Entanglements of Empire - Missionaries, Maori, and the Question of the Body (Paperback)
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The first Protestant mission was established in New Zealand in
1814, initiating complex political, cultural, and economic
entanglements with Maori. Tony Ballantyne shows how interest in
missionary Christianity among influential Maori chiefs had
far-reaching consequences for both groups. Deftly reconstructing
cross-cultural translations and struggles over such concepts and
practices as civilization, work, time and space, and gender, he
identifies the physical body as the most contentious site of
cultural engagement, with Maori and missionaries struggling over
hygiene, tattooing, clothing, and sexual morality. "Entanglements
of Empire" is particularly concerned with how, as a result of their
encounters in the classroom, chapel, kitchen, and farmyard, Maori
and the English mutually influenced each other's worldviews.
Concluding in 1840 with New Zealand's formal colonization, this
book offers an important contribution to debates over religion and
empire.
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