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Philip Soutar died at Ypres in 1917. Before becoming a soldier,
Soutar's life revolved around his farm at Whakat?ne, where he lived
with his M?ori wife Kathleen Pine in an 'as-you-please marriage,
uncelebrated by a clergyman'. Matters of the Heart introduces us to
couples like Philip and Kathleen to unravel the long history of
interracial relationships in New Zealand. That history runs from
whalers and traders marrying into M?ori families in the early
nineteenth century through to the growth of interracial marriages
in the later twentieth. It stretches from common law marriages and
M?ori customary marriages to formal arrangements recognised by
church and state. And that history runs the gamut of official
reactions-from condemnation of interracial immorality or racial
treason to celebration of New Zealand's unique intermarriage
patterns as a sign of us being 'one people' with the 'best race
relations in the world'. In the history of intimate relations
between M?ori and P?keh?, public policy and private life were woven
together. Matters of the Heart reveals much about how M?ori and
P?keh? have lived together in this country and our changing
attitudes to race, marriage and intimacy.
In contrast to much scholarship on cross-cultural encounters, which
focuses primarily on contact between indigenous peoples and
'settlers' or 'sojourners', this book is concerned with migrant
aspects of this phenomenon - whether migrant-migrant or
migrant-host encounters - bringing together studies from a variety
of perspectives on cross-cultural encounters, their past, and their
resonances across the contemporary Asia-Pacific region. Organised
thematically into sections focusing on 'imperial encounters' of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 'identities' in the twentieth
and twenty-first centuries, and 'contemporary citizenship' and the
ways in which this is complicated by mobility and cross-cultural
encounters, the volume presents studies of New Zealand, Singapore,
Australia, Vanuatu, Mauritius and China to highlight key themes of
mobility, intimacies, ethnicity and 'race', heritage and diaspora,
through rich evidence such as photographs, census data, the arts
and interviews. Demonstrating the importance of multidisciplinary
ways of looking at migrant cross-cultural encounters through
blending historical and social science methodologies from a range
of disciplinary backgrounds, Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in
Asia and the Pacific will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists,
cultural geographers and historians with interests in migration,
mobility and cross-cultural encounters.
In contrast to much scholarship on cross-cultural encounters, which
focuses primarily on contact between indigenous peoples and
'settlers' or 'sojourners', this book is concerned with migrant
aspects of this phenomenon - whether migrant-migrant or
migrant-host encounters - bringing together studies from a variety
of perspectives on cross-cultural encounters, their past, and their
resonances across the contemporary Asia-Pacific region. Organised
thematically into sections focusing on 'imperial encounters' of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 'identities' in the twentieth
and twenty-first centuries, and 'contemporary citizenship' and the
ways in which this is complicated by mobility and cross-cultural
encounters, the volume presents studies of New Zealand, Singapore,
Australia, Vanuatu, Mauritius and China to highlight key themes of
mobility, intimacies, ethnicity and 'race', heritage and diaspora,
through rich evidence such as photographs, census data, the arts
and interviews. Demonstrating the importance of multidisciplinary
ways of looking at migrant cross-cultural encounters through
blending historical and social science methodologies from a range
of disciplinary backgrounds, Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in
Asia and the Pacific will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists,
cultural geographers and historians with interests in migration,
mobility and cross-cultural encounters.
As modern European empires expanded, written language was critical
to articulations of imperial authority and justifications of
conquest. For imperial administrators and thinkers, the
non-literacy of "native" societies demonstrated their primitiveness
and inability to change. Yet as the contributors to Indigenous
Textual Cultures make clear through cases from the Pacific Islands,
Australasia, North America, and Africa, indigenous communities were
highly adaptive and created novel, dynamic literary practices that
preserved indigenous knowledge traditions. The contributors
illustrate how modern literacy operated alongside orality rather
than replacing it. Reconstructing multiple traditions of indigenous
literacy and textual production, the contributors focus attention
on the often hidden, forgotten, neglected, and marginalized
cultural innovators who read, wrote, and used texts in endlessly
creative ways. This volume demonstrates how the work of these
innovators played pivotal roles in reimagining indigenous
epistemologies, challenging colonial domination, and envisioning
radical new futures. Contributors. Noelani Arista, Tony Ballantyne,
Alban Bensa, Keith Thor Carlson, Evelyn Ellerman, Isabel Hofmeyr,
Emma Hunter, Arini Loader, Adrian Muckle, Lachy Paterson, Laura
Rademaker, Michael P. J. Reilly, Bruno Saura, Ivy T. Schweitzer,
Angela Wanhalla
Between 1942 and 1945 more than two million servicemen occupied the
southern Pacific theater, the majority of whom were Americans in
service with the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. During
the occupation, American servicemen married approximately 1,800
women from New Zealand and the island Pacific, creating legal bonds
through marriage and through children. Additionally, American
servicemen fathered an estimated four thousand nonmarital children
with Indigenous women in the South Pacific Command Area. In Of Love
and War Angela Wanhalla details the intimate relationships forged
during wartime between women and U.S. servicemen stationed in the
South Pacific, traces the fate of wartime marriages, and addresses
consequences for the women and children left behind. Paying
particular attention to the experiences of women in New Zealand and
in the island Pacific—including Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, and the Cook
Islands—Of Love and War aims to illuminate the impact of global
war on these women, their families, and Pacific societies. Wanhalla
argues that Pacific war brides are an important though largely
neglected cohort whose experiences of U.S. military occupation
expand our understanding of global war. By examining the effects of
American law on the marital opportunities of couples, their ability
to reunite in the immediate postwar years, and the citizenship
status of any children born of wartime relationships, Wanhalla
makes a significant contribution to a flourishing scholarship
concerned with the intersections between race, gender, sexuality,
and militarization in the World War II era. Â
More than any other locale, the Pacific Ocean has been the meeting
place between humans and whales. From Indigenous Pacific peoples
who built lives and cosmologies around whales, to Euro-American
whalers who descended upon the Pacific during the nineteenth
century, and to the new forms of human-cetacean partnerships that
have emerged from the late twentieth century, the relationship
between these two species has been central to the ocean’s
history. Across Species and Cultures: Whales, Humans, and Pacific
Worlds offers for the first time a critical, wide-ranging
geographical and temporal look at the varieties of whale histories
in the Pacific. The essay contributors, hailing from around the
Pacific, present a wealth of fascinating stories while breaking new
methodological ground in environmental history, women’s history,
animal studies, and Indigenous ontologies. In the process they
reveal previously hidden aspects of the story of Pacific whaling,
including the contributions of Indigenous people to capitalist
whaling, the industry’s exceptionally far-reaching spread, and
its overlooked second life as a global, industrial slaughter in the
twentieth century. While pointing to striking continuities in
whaling histories around the Pacific, Across Species and Cultures
also reveals deep tensions: between environmentalists and
Indigenous peoples, between ideas and realities, and between the
North and South Pacific. The book delves in unprecedented ways into
the lives and histories of whales themselves. Despite the worst
ravages of commercial and industrial whaling, whales survived two
centuries of mass killing in the Pacific. Their perseverance
continues to nourish many human communities around and in the
Pacific Ocean where they are hunted as commodities, regarded as
signs of wealth and power, act as providers and protectors, but are
also ancestors, providing a bridge between human and nonhuman
worlds.
As modern European empires expanded, written language was critical
to articulations of imperial authority and justifications of
conquest. For imperial administrators and thinkers, the
non-literacy of "native" societies demonstrated their primitiveness
and inability to change. Yet as the contributors to Indigenous
Textual Cultures make clear through cases from the Pacific Islands,
Australasia, North America, and Africa, indigenous communities were
highly adaptive and created novel, dynamic literary practices that
preserved indigenous knowledge traditions. The contributors
illustrate how modern literacy operated alongside orality rather
than replacing it. Reconstructing multiple traditions of indigenous
literacy and textual production, the contributors focus attention
on the often hidden, forgotten, neglected, and marginalized
cultural innovators who read, wrote, and used texts in endlessly
creative ways. This volume demonstrates how the work of these
innovators played pivotal roles in reimagining indigenous
epistemologies, challenging colonial domination, and envisioning
radical new futures. Contributors. Noelani Arista, Tony Ballantyne,
Alban Bensa, Keith Thor Carlson, Evelyn Ellerman, Isabel Hofmeyr,
Emma Hunter, Arini Loader, Adrian Muckle, Lachy Paterson, Laura
Rademaker, Michael P. J. Reilly, Bruno Saura, Ivy T. Schweitzer,
Angela Wanhalla
Angela Wanhalla starts her story with the mixed-descent community
at Maitapapa, Taieri, where her great-grandparents, John Brown and
Mabel Smith, were born. As the book took shape, a community emerged
from the records, re-casting history and identity in the present.
--Drawing on the experiences of mixed-descent families, In/visible
Sight examines the early history of cross-cultural encounter and
colonization in southern New Zealand. There Ng i Tahu engaged with
the European newcomers on a sustained scale from the 1820s,
encountering systematic settlement from the 1840s and fighting land
alienation from the 1850s. The evolving social world was one framed
by marriage, kinship networks and cultural practices - a world in
which inter-racial intimacy played a formative role.--In exploring
this history through a particular group of family networks,
In/visible Sight offers new insights into New Zealand's colonial
past. Marriage as a fundamental social institution in the
nineteenth century takes on a different shape when seen through the
lens of cross-cultural encounters. The book also outlines some of
the contours and ambiguities involved in living as mixed descent in
colonial New Zealand.-
More than any other locale, the Pacific Ocean has been the meeting
place between humans and whales. From Indigenous Pacific peoples
who built lives and cosmologies around whales, to Euro-American
whalers who descended upon the Pacific during the nineteenth
century, and to the new forms of human-cetacean partnerships that
have emerged from the late twentieth century, the relationship
between these two species has been central to the ocean's history.
Across Species and Cultures: New Histories of Pacific Whaling
offers for the first time a critical, wide-ranging geographical and
temporal look at the varieties of whale histories in the Pacific.
The essay contributors, hailing from around the Pacific, present a
wealth of fascinating stories while breaking new methodological
ground in environmental history, women's history, animal studies,
and Indigenous ontologies. In the process they reveal previously
hidden aspects of the story of Pacific whaling, including the
contributions of Indigenous people to capitalist whaling, the
industry's exceptionally far-reaching spread, and its overlooked
second life as a global, industrial slaughter in the twentieth
century. While pointing to striking continuities in whaling
histories around the Pacific, Across Species and Cultures also
reveals deep tensions: between environmentalists and Indigenous
peoples, between ideas and realities, and between the North and
South Pacific. The book delves in unprecedented ways into the lives
and histories of whales themselves. Despite the worst ravages of
commercial and industrial whaling, whales survived two centuries of
mass killing in the Pacific. Their perseverance continues to
nourish many human communities around and in the Pacific Ocean
where they are hunted as commodities, regarded as signs of wealth
and power, act as providers and protectors, but are also ancestors,
providing a bridge between human and nonhuman worlds.
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